Psalm 45:10-17

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¹⁰Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
    forget your people and your father's house,
¹¹    and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your ^(A)lord, ^(B)bow to him.
¹²    The people^[a] of Tyre will ^(C)seek your favor with ^(D)gifts,
    ^(E)the richest of the people.^[b]

¹³All glorious is ^(F)the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
¹⁴    ^(G)In many-colored robes ^(H)she is led to the king,
    with her virgin companions following behind her.
¹⁵With joy and gladness they are led along
    as they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶In place of your fathers shall be your sons;
you will make them ^(I)princes in all the earth.
¹⁷^(J)I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

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Psalm 45:12 Hebrew daughter
Psalm 45:12 Or The daughter of Tyre is here with gifts, the richest of people seek your favor

Genesis 25:19-27

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The Birth of Esau and Jacob

¹⁹These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: ^(A)Abraham fathered Isaac, ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, ^(B)the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of ^(C)Paddan-aram, ^(D)the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. ²¹And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And ^(E)the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²²The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?”^[a] So she went ^(F)to inquire of the Lord. ²³And the Lord said to her,

^(G)“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you^[b] shall be divided;
^(H)the one shall be stronger than the other,
^(I)the older shall serve the younger.”

²⁴When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵The first came out red, ^(J)all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. ²⁶Afterward his brother came out with ^(K)his hand holding Esau's heel, so ^(L)his name was called Jacob.^[c] Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau was ^(M)a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, ^(N)dwelling in tents.

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Genesis 25:22 Or why do I live?
Genesis 25:23 Or from birth
Genesis 25:26 Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats

Romans 7:1-6

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Released from the Law

7 Or do you not know, brothers^[a]—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? ²For ^(A)a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.^[b] ³Accordingly, ^(B)she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

⁴Likewise, my brothers, ^(C)you also have died ^(D)to the law ^(E)through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, ^(F)in order that we may bear fruit for God. ⁵For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work ^(G)in our members ^(H)to bear fruit for death. ⁶But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the ^(I)new way of ^(J)the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.^[c]