Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `This day I begin to make thee great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with thee;

⁸ and thou, thou dost command the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye come unto the extremity of the waters of the Jordan -- in the Jordan ye stand.'

⁹ And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, `Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God;

¹⁰ and Joshua saith, `By this ye know that the living God [is] in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:

¹¹ lo, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into Jordan;

¹² and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man -- one man for a tribe;

¹³ and it hath been, at the resting of the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of Jehovah, Lord of all the earth, in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan are cut off -- the waters which are coming down from above -- and they stand -- one heap.'

¹⁴ And it cometh to pass, in the journeying of the people from their tents to pass over the Jordan, and of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

¹⁵ and at those bearing the ark coming in unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark have been dipped in the extremity of the waters (and the Jordan is full over all its banks all the days of harvest) --

¹⁶ that the waters stand; those coming down from above have risen -- one heap, very far above Adam the city, which [is] at the side of Zaretan; and those going down by the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, have been completely cut off; and the people have passed through over-against Jericho;

¹⁷ and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stand on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan -- established, and all Israel are passing over on dry ground till that all the nation hath completed to pass over the Jordan.

107 `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age [is] His kindness:'

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say, Whom He redeemed from the hand of an adversary.

³ And from the lands hath gathered them, From east and from west, From north, and from the sea.

⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

⁵ Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,

⁶ And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distress He delivereth them,

⁷ And causeth them to tread in a right way, To go unto a city of habitation.

³³ He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.

³⁴ A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵ He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.

³⁶ And He causeth the hungry to dwell there, And they prepare a city of habitation.

³⁷ And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

⁹ for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

¹⁰ ye [are] witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

¹¹ even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

¹² for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹³ Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

23 Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

² saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

³ all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

⁴ for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

⁵ `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

⁶ they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸ `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

⁹ and ye may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

¹⁰ nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

¹¹ And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

¹² and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.