Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

46 Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

² O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of Joy,

³ For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

⁴ He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.

⁵ He hath chosen for us his inheritance the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

⁶ God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

⁷ Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

⁸ For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

⁹ God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

¹⁰ The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

3 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

² And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

⁴ And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.

⁵ For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.

⁸ And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.

⁹ And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?

¹² And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

¹⁴ And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

¹⁵ I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

¹⁶ To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

¹⁸ Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

²⁰ And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

²¹ And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife, garments of skins, and clothed them.

²² And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

²³ And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

²⁴ And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

7 Judge not, that you may not be judged,

² For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

³ And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

⁴ Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?

⁵ Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

⁶ Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.