Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ Bless, ye peoples, our God, And sound the voice of His praise,

⁹ Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.

¹⁰ For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins.

¹² Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

¹³ I enter Thy house with burnt-offerings, I complete to Thee my vows,

¹⁴ For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

¹⁵ `Burnt-offerings of fatlings I offer to Thee, With perfume of rams, I prepare a bullock with he-goats.' Selah.

¹⁶ Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.

¹⁷ Unto Him [with] my mouth I have called, And exaltation [is] under my tongue.

¹⁸ Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

¹⁹ But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Blessed [is] God, Who hath not turned aside my prayer, And His loving-kindness, from me!

¹³ And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

¹⁴ And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

¹⁵ And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, `Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

¹⁶ every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

¹⁷ and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'

¹⁸ And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

¹⁹ every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

²⁷ `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

²⁸ ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

²⁹ `And now I have said [it] to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;