Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹³ For You have possessed my core. You have covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wondrously made. Marvelous are Your works; and my soul knows it well!

¹⁵ My bones are not hidden from You; though I was made in secret, fashioned beneath, in the Earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw me when I was without form; for in Your Book were all things written, days fashioned at a time when there were still none of them.

¹⁷ How dear, therefore, are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.

¹⁶ Then they departed from Bethel, and when they were about half a day’s journey from Ephrath, Rachel labored; and she was in peril in her labor.

¹⁷ And when she was in the pains of her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear. For you shall have this son also.”

¹⁸ Then, as she was about to give up the ghost (for she died), she called his name, “Ben-Oni”. But his father called him “Benjamin”.

¹⁹ Thus Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

²⁰ And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. This is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

²¹ Then Israel went forward and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

²² Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. And Israel heard about it. And Jacob had twelve sons.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s eldest son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun.

²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.

²⁷ Then Jacob came to Isaac, his father, to Mamre, a city of Kirjath Arbah (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac were strangers.

²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

²⁹ And Isaac gave up the ghost and died and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days; and his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

¹⁵ But Jesus, knowing of it, departed from there. And great multitudes followed Him. And He healed them all,

¹⁶ and warned them that they should not make Him known.

¹⁷ So that which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, which says,

¹⁸ “Behold My Servant, Whom I have chosen; My Beloved in Whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him. And He shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

¹⁹ “He shall not strive, nor cry, nor shall anyone hear His voice in the streets.

²⁰ “A bruised reed shall He not break. And a smoldering wick shall He not quench, till He brings forth judgment unto victory.

²¹ “And in His Name shall the Gentiles trust.”