Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
124 If the LORD had not been on our side, (may Israel now say)
2 If the LORD had not been on our side when men rose up against us,
3 they would have swallowed us up quickly when their wrath was kindled against us.
4 Then, the waters had drowned us; the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then, the swelling waters had gone over our soul.
6 Praise the LORD, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth!
7 Our soul has escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken and we are delivered.
8 Our help is in the Name of the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth. A song of degrees
29 And he charged them, and said to them, “I am ready to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 “in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah (besides Mamre, in the land of Canaan) which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a burial possession.
31 “There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife. And there I buried Leah.
32 “The purchase of the field, and the cave that is therein, were bought from the children of Heth.”
33 Thus, Jacob finished giving charge to his sons and drew his feet into the bed and gave up the ghost and was gathered to his people.
50 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 So, forty days were fulfilled (for so long did the days of those who were embalmed last); and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to the House of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, and say,
5 ‘My father made me swear saying, “Lo, I die. Bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.”’ Now, therefore, please let me go and bury my father; and I will come back.”
6 Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he has made you swear to do.”
7 So, Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
8 Likewise, all the House of Joseph went, and his brothers, and his father’s House. Only their children and their sheep and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.
9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And they were an exceedingly great company.
10 And they came to Goren Atad (which is beyond Jordan); and there they made a great and exceedingly severe lamentation. And he mourned for his father for seven days.
11 And when the Canaanites (the inhabitants of the land) saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, “This is a great mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore, the name thereof was called “Abel Mizraim,” which is beyond Jordan.
12 So, his sons did to him as he had commanded them.
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite (beside Mamre) as a burial place.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
12 For we dare not reckon ourselves among, or compare ourselves to, those who praise themselves. But they do not understand that they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with themselves.
13 But we will not boast of things which are not measurable, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us; a measure to reach even to you.
14 For we do not stretch ourselves beyond measure, as though we had not reached you. For as far as you also we have come in the Gospel of Christ,
15 not boasting of things which are beyond measure (that is, of others’ labors). But we do hope, when your faith shall increase, to be magnified by you abundantly, according to our area,
16 and to preach the Gospel in those regions beyond you (not to rejoice in another’s area which has already been prepared).
17 But, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord”.
18 For the one who praises himself is not approved, but the one whom the Lord praises.
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