The Lord, a Provider and the One Who Rescues Me.

A Psalm of David, when he pretended to be insane before ^[a]Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

The Lord, an Abundant Helper.

Jacob Dies

²⁹ Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be ^(A)gathered to my people; ^(B)bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in ^(C)the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the ^(D)cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a ^[a]burial site. ³¹ There they buried ^(E)Abraham and his wife ^(F)Sarah, there they buried ^(G)Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah— ³² the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth.” ³³ When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and ^(H)breathed his last, and was ^(I)gathered to his people.

Jacob Is Buried

50 Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him. ² Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians ^(J)embalmed Israel. ³ Now forty days were ^[b]required for ^[c]it, for ^[d]such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians ^(K)wept for him seventy days.

⁴ When the days of ^[e]mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak ^[f]to Pharaoh, saying, ⁵ ‘^(L)My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave ^(M)which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now then, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’” ⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸ and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. ⁹ Chariots with teams of horses also went up with him; and it was a very great company. ¹⁰ When they came to the ^[g]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they ^(N)mourned there with a very great and ^[h]sorrowful lamentation; and he ^[i]observed seven days of mourning for his father. ¹¹ Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at ^[j]the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a ^[k]grievous ^[l]mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named ^[m]Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

¹² And so his sons did for him as he had commanded them; ¹³ for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in ^(O)the cave of the field of Machpelah opposite Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a ^[n]burial site from Ephron the Hittite. ¹⁴ And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

² Now ^(A)I praise you because you ^(B)remember me in everything and ^(C)hold firmly to the traditions, just as I handed them down to you. ³ But I want you to understand that Christ is the ^(D)head of every man, and ^[a](E)the man is the head of a woman, and God is the ^(F)head of Christ. ⁴ Every man who has something on his head while praying or ^(G)prophesying disgraces his head. ⁵ But every ^(H)woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as the woman ^[b]whose head is ^(I)shaved. ⁶ For if a woman does not cover ^[c]her head, have her also ^[d]cut her hair off; however, if it is disgraceful for a woman to ^[e]have her hair cut off or ^[f]her head shaved, have her cover ^[g]her head. ⁷ For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the ^(J)image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. ⁸ For ^(K)man ^[h]does not originate from woman, but woman from man; ⁹ for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but ^(L)woman for the man’s sake. ¹⁰ Therefore the woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. ¹¹ However, in the Lord, neither is woman ^[i]independent of man, nor is man ^[j]independent of woman. ¹² For as the woman originated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and ^(M)all things originate ^(N)from God. ^13 (O)Judge ^[k]for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴ Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, ¹⁵ but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her as a covering. ¹⁶ But if anyone is inclined to be contentious, ^(P)we have no ^[l]such practice, nor have ^(Q)the churches of God.

¹⁷ Now in giving this next instruction ^(R)I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse. ¹⁸ For, in the first place, when you come together ^[m]as a church, I hear that ^[n](S)divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it. ¹⁹ For there also ^(T)have to be factions among you, ^(U)so that those who are approved may become ^[o]evident among you. ²⁰ Therefore when you come together it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, ²¹ for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while ^(V)another gets drunk. ²² What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the ^(W)church of God and ^(X)shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall ^(Y)I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

The Lord’s Supper

²³ For ^(Z)I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that ^(AA)the Lord Jesus, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread; ²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” ²⁵ In the same way He also took ^(AB)the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the ^(AC)new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death ^(AD)until He comes.

²⁷ Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way, shall be ^(AE)guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But a person must ^(AF)examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For the one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not properly recognize the ^[p]body. ³⁰ For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number ^[q](AG)are asleep. ³¹ But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged, we are ^(AH)disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with ^(AI)the world.

³³ So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. ³⁴ If anyone is ^(AJ)hungry, have him eat ^(AK)at home, so that you do not come together for judgment. As to the remaining matters, I will ^(AL)give instructions ^(AM)when I come.

Four Thousand Men Fed

8 In those days, ^(A)when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus summoned His disciples and *said to them, ² “^(B)I feel compassion for the ^[a]people because they have remained with Me for three days already and have nothing to eat. ³ And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance.” ⁴ And His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough ^[b]bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?” ⁵ And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.” ⁶ And He *directed the ^[c]people to recline on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to serve, and they served them to the ^[d]people. ⁷ They also had a few small fish; and ^(C)after He had blessed them, He told the disciples to serve these as well. ⁸ And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large ^(D)baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces. ⁹ About four thousand ^[e]men were there; and He dismissed them. ¹⁰ And immediately He got into the boat with His disciples and came to the region of ^(E)Dalmanutha.