Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

127 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

² For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

³ Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.

⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

⁵ May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

⁶ And mayest thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.

¹¹ Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:

¹² And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.

¹³ Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive and to bear a son.

¹⁴ And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffered thy family to want a successor, that his name should be preserved in Israel.

¹⁵ And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.

¹⁶ And Noemi taking the child laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.

¹⁷ And the women her neighbours, congratulating with her and saying: There is a son born to Noemi: called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.

¹⁵ And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those transgressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

¹⁶ For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in.

¹⁷ For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.

¹⁸ Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

²⁰ Saying: This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.

²¹ The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with blood.

²² And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

²³ It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²⁴ For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.