Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

29 Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

² And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.

³ And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.

⁴ And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.

⁵ And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.

⁶ He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with his flock.

⁷ And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so lead them back to feed.

⁸ They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well's mouth, that we may water the flocks.

⁹ They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she fed the flock.

¹⁰ And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin-german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed.

¹¹ And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice, wept.

¹² And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.

¹³ Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran forth to meet him; and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,

¹⁴ He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

10 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

² And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea:

³ And did all eat the same spiritual food,

⁴ And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)