Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

124 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Save [for] Jehovah -- who hath been for us, (Pray, let Israel say),

² Save [for] Jehovah -- who hath been for us, In the rising up of man against us,

³ Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

⁴ Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

⁵ Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

⁶ Blessed [is] Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

⁸ Our help [is] in the name of Jehovah, Maker of the heavens and earth!

¹⁵ And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.'

¹⁶ And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

¹⁷ Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.

¹⁸ And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we [are] to thee for servants.'

¹⁹ And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for [am] I in the place of God?

²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

²¹ and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

²² And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years,

²³ and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third [generation]; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.

²⁴ And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

²⁵ And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, `God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this [place].'

²⁶ And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

⁵ And his disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves,

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

⁷ and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.'

⁸ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

⁹ do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.