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?
10. Or does He say it because of us all? For this was written because of us, that he who ploughs should plough in expectation, and the thresher in expectation of sharing.
11. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material goods from you?