1. Am I not an emissary? Am I not free? Have I not seen יהושע Messiah our Master? Are you not my work in the Master?
2. If to others I am not an emissary, I certainly am to you. For you are the seal of my office of the emissary in the Master.
3. My defence to those who examine me is this:
4. Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
5. Do we not have a right to take along a sister – a wife – as do also the other emissaries, and the brothers of the Master, and Kĕpha?
6. Or do only Barnaḇah and I have no right to refrain from working?
7. Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?
8. Do I say this as a man? Or does not the Torah say the same too?
9. For it has been written in the Torah of Mosheh, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it about oxen Elohim is concerned?