chapter five

¹and I have seen on the right side of Him Who sits on the throne of glory a book, written of inside and of the back, sealed with seven seals.

²and did see a strong angel call out with a loud voice: who is worthy to open this Sefer (Isa 29:11; Dan 8:26) and to break its seals?

³and anyone has not been able in heaven, not on the earth, not under the earth, to open the Sefer, nor to look on it.

⁴and I have a many wept, because anyone is not found become worthy to open the Sefer (Isa 29:11; Dan 8:26), not to look on it;

⁵and one of the elders has to me said: weep not; look, the lion of the tribe Yehudah (Genesis 49, 9-10), the root of David (Yeshayah 11, 1, 10), has overcome was, to open up the Sefer and its seven seals.

⁶and have seen in the midst of the throne of glory and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, like ritually slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of G-d, sent over the whole earth.

⁷and it (the Lamb) is come, and has taken the Sefer out the right hand of the One, Who sits on the throne of glory.

⁸and when it has taken the book, are the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fall down before the Lamb, having every one a harp, and golden ketoret/incense bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

⁹and they did sing a new worship song, so to say: worthy You are to take the Sefer and to open its seals; because You (sing) are ritually slaughtered become, and did ransom for Hashem with your own blood the (men) of every tribe and language and people and nation,

¹⁰and them made for a kingdom to our G-d and for kohenim; and they will reign/rule upon the earth.

¹¹and (I) did look, and heard a voice of a many angels, around and around from the throne of glory and of the living creatures and the elders; and their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands times thousand (Daniel 7, 10.);

¹²and they have said with a loud voice; worthy is the Lamb, this slaughtered, to receive the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and praise!

¹³and every created thing, which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and which is in them, all have I heard say: to Him, Who sits on the throne of glory, and to the Lamb, shall be the praise and the honor and the glory and the rule forever and ever! (Daniel 7, 13-14.)

¹⁴and the four living creatures have said: Amen! and the elders did fall down and have self worship.