Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

105 O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the people.

² Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him; talk ye of all His wondrous works.

³ Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

⁴ Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore.

⁵ Remember His marvelous works that He hath done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth,

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham, His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen.

¹⁶ Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, even Joseph who was sold as a servant,

¹⁸ whose feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in irons.

¹⁹ Until the time when his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tried him.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,

²² to command his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.

⁴⁵ that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise ye the Lord!

²² And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, 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 handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;

²⁶ and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Padanaram.

²⁷ And Jacob came unto Isaac his father at Mamre, unto the city of Arbah (which is Hebron) where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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

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

¹⁰ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea, who arriving there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹¹ These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with allreadiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were so.

¹² Therefore many of them believed, also honorable women who were Greeks, and of men not a few.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica became aware that the Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.

¹⁴ And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there still.

¹⁵ And those who conducted Paul brought him unto Athens and, having received direction for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.