Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou greatly enrichest it: the river of God is full of water; thou providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it:

¹⁰ Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

¹¹ Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness:

¹² They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness.

¹³ The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

³⁷ And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.

³⁸ And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.

³⁹ And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

⁴¹ And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;

⁴² but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.

⁴³ And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.

¹⁰ For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the might of his strength.

¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹³ For this reason take [to you] the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁵ and shod your feet with [the] preparation of the glad tidings of peace:

¹⁶ besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.

¹⁷ Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

¹⁸ praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;