Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
10 Listen, O princess.[a]
Observe and pay attention![b]
Forget your homeland[c] and your family.[d]
11 Then[e] the king will be attracted by[f] your beauty.
After all, he is your master. Submit[g] to him.[h]
12 Rich people from Tyre
will seek your favor by bringing a gift.[i]
13 The princess[j] looks absolutely magnificent,[k]
decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.[l]
14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king.
Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her,
are led before you.[m]
15 They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession
and enter the royal palace.[n]
16 Your[o] sons will carry on[p] the dynasty of your ancestors;[q]
you will make them princes throughout the land.
17 I will proclaim your greatness through the coming years,[r]
then the nations will praise you[s] forever.
Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing
27 When[a] Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind,[b] he called his older[c] son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau[d] replied. 2 Isaac[e] said, “Since[f] I am so old, I could die at any time.[g] 3 Therefore, take your weapons—your quiver and your bow—and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game[h] for me. 4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then[i] I will eat it so that I may bless you[j] before I die.”
5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau.[k] When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,[l] 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat[m] it and bless you[n] in the presence of the Lord[o] before I die.’ 8 Now then, my son, do exactly[p] what I tell you![q] 9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare[r] them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 10 Then you will take[s] it to your father. Thus he will eat it[t] and[u] bless you before he dies.”
11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin![v] 12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him[w] and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me,[x] my son! Just obey me![y] Go and get them for me!”
14 So he went and got the goats[z] and brought them to his mother. She[aa] prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. 15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. 16 She put the skins of the young goats[ab] on his hands[ac] and the smooth part of his neck. 17 Then she handed[ad] the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I[a] would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else[b] if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”[c] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.[d] For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive 10 and I died. So[e] I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death![f] 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.[g] 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual—but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.[h] 15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate.[i] 16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.[j] 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.[k] 19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
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