Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

112 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

³ Wealth and riches [are] in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

⁵ Good [is] the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

⁶ For -- to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.

⁷ Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah.

⁸ Sustained is his heart -- he feareth not, Till that he look on his adversaries.

⁹ He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

¹³ `When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

¹⁴ and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

¹⁵ `Then hath the father of the damsel -- and her mother -- taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,

¹⁶ and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

¹⁷ and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity -- and these [are] the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

¹⁸ `And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,

¹⁹ and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

²⁰ `And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --

²¹ then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring [in] her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

²² `When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

²³ `When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

²⁴ then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, [being] in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

²⁵ `And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

²⁶ and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin; for as a man riseth against his neighbour and hath murdered him -- the life, so [is] this thing;

²⁷ for in a field he found her, she hath cried -- the damsel who is betrothed -- and she hath no saviour.

²⁸ `When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

²⁹ then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.

³⁰ `A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

7 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman,

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

⁷ for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

⁸ And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];

⁹ and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;