Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

2 And Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart rejoices in the LORD. My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation.

² “There is none as Holy as the LORD. Yea, there is none besides You; and there is no god like our God.

³ “No longer speak so exceedingly proudly. Do let not arrogancy come out of your mouth. For the LORD is a God of knowledge; and by Him enterprises are established.

⁴ “The bow and the mighty men are broken; and the weak have girded themselves with strength.

⁵ “Those who were full are now hired for bread, yet the hungry are no more. Even the barren has borne seven; and she who had many children is now feeble.

⁶ “The LORD kills and makes alive, brings down to the grave and raises up.

⁷ “The LORD makes poor and makes rich, brings low and exalts.

⁸ “He raises up the poor from the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set among princes and to make them inherit the seat of glory. For the pillars of the Earth are the LORD’s, and he has set the world upon them.

⁹ “He will keep the feet of His saints; and the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in might shall no man be strong.

¹⁰ “The LORD’s adversaries shall be destroyed, and out of Heaven shall He thunder upon them. The LORD shall judge the ends of the world, and shall give power to His King, and exalt the horn of His Anointed.”

² These are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah (his father’s wives). And Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he begat him in his old age; and he made him a coat of many colors.

⁴ So, when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, then they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers, who hated him so much the more.

⁶ For he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed!

⁷ “Behold now, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves surrounded it, and did reverence to my sheaf.”

⁸ Then his brothers said to him, “What!? Shall you reign over us, and rule us? Or, shall you have complete dominion over us?” And they hated him so much the more, for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ Again, he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have had one more dream. And behold, the Sun and the Moon and eleven stars did reverence to me.”

¹⁰ Then, he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this, your dream which you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and fall on the ground before you?”

¹¹ And his brothers envied him. But his father noted the saying.

1 Book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

² Abraham begat Isaac. And Isaac begat Jacob. And Jacob begat Judah and his brothers.

³ And Judah begat Perez, and Zerah, of Tamar. And Perez begat Hezron. And Hezron begat Ram.

⁴ And Ram begat Amminadab. And Amminadab begat Nahshon. And Nahshon begat Salmon.

⁵ And Salmon begat Boaz, of Rahab. And Boaz begat Obed, of Ruth. And Obed begat Jesse.

⁶ And Jesse begat David the King. And David the King begat Solomon, of the wife of Uriah.

⁷ And Solomon begat Rehoboam. And Rehoboam begat Abijah. And Abijah begat Asa.

⁸ And Asa begat Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat begat Joram. And Joram begat Uzziah.

⁹ And Uzziah begat Jotham. And Jotham begat Ahaz. And Ahaz begat Hezekiah.

¹⁰ And Hezekiah begat Manasseh. And Manasseh begat Amon. And Amon begat Josiah.

¹¹ And Josiah begat Jeconiah, and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon.

¹² And after they were carried away into Babylon, Jeconiah begat Shealtiel. And Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel.

¹³ And Zerubbabel begat Abiud. And Abiud begat Eliakim. And Eliakim begat Azor.

¹⁴ And Azor begat Zadok. And Zadok begat Achim. And Achim begat Eliud.

¹⁵ And Eliud begat Eleazar. And Eleazar begat Matthan. And Matthan begat Jacob.

¹⁶ And Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, Who is called Christ.

¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David until they were carried away into Babylon, fourteen generations; and after they were carried away into Babylon until Christ, fourteen generations.