2 Every Yom Rishon (T.N. which begins Motzoei Shabbos by Biblical reckoning, each day being an evening and a morning) of each week, each of you by himself make something farnumen (set aside), storing up according to his hakhnasah (income), so that collections need not be made when I come.
3 And when I arrive, whomever you approve, these I will send with iggrot to carry your matanah to Yerushalayim.
4 And if it is fitting for me also to go, they will go with me.
5 And I will come to you whenever I pass through Macedonia, for I will be passing through Macedonia.
6 Efsher (perhaps) I will stay with you, or even spend the choref (winter) that you may help me with a send-off wherever I may go.
7 For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I have the tikvah to remain some time with you, im yirtzeh Hashem (G-d willing, permitting).
8 But, I will remain on in Ephesus until Shavuos [Lv 23:15-21; Dt 16:9-11],