Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ And the inhabitants of the uttermost parts From Thy signs are afraid, The outgoings of morning and evening Thou causest to sing.

⁹ Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God [is] full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

¹⁰ Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

¹¹ Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.

¹² Drop do the pastures of a wilderness, And joy of the heights Thou girdest on.

¹³ Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!

²⁵ And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;

²⁶ give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou -- thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'

²⁷ And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes -- I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'

²⁸ He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'

²⁹ And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee [in], and that which thy substance was with me;

³⁰ for [it is] little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'

³¹ And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;

³² I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire;

³³ and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs -- it is stolen with me.'

³⁴ And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'

³⁵ and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that [hath] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,

³⁶ and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.

¹³ Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.