Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father’s house.

¹¹ So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, for He is thy Lord; worship thou Him.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

¹³ The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

¹⁴ She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework; the virgins, her companions that follow her, shall be brought unto Thee.

¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought; they shall enter into the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Instead of Thy fathers shall be Thy children, whom Thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

¹⁷ I will make Thy name to be remembered in all generations; therefore shall the people praise Thee for ever and ever.

¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham begot Isaac.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah for a wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

²¹ And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it be so, why am I thus?” And she went to inquire of the Lord.

²³ And the Lord said unto her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy body; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.”

²⁴ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵ And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

²⁶ And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was threescore years old when she bore them.

²⁷ And the boys grew. And Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

7 Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), how the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

² For the woman who hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband.

³ So then, if while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

⁴ Therefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

⁶ But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.