Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

113 Praise ye Jah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah. Praise the name of Jehovah.

² The name of Jehovah is blessed, From henceforth, and unto the age.

³ From the rising of the sun unto its going in, Praised [is] the name of Jehovah.

⁴ High above all nations [is] Jehovah, Above the heavens [is] his honour.

⁵ Who [is] as Jehovah our God, He is exalting [Himself] to sit?

⁶ He is humbling [Himself] to look On the heavens and on the earth.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

⁸ To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

⁹ Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

24 And Abraham [is] old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all [things];

² and Abraham saith unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he hath, `Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,

³ and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

⁴ but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'

⁵ And the servant saith unto him, `It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'

⁶ And Abraham saith unto him, `Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause my son to turn back thither;

⁷ Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

⁸ and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.'

⁹ And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter.

¹⁰ And the servant taketh ten camels of the camels of his lord and goeth, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he riseth, and goeth unto Aram-Naharaim, unto the city of Nahor;

5 An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

² aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

³ honour widows who are really widows;

⁴ and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

⁵ And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

⁶ and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

⁷ and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

⁸ and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.