Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
10 Hear, O daughter, and discern[a] and incline your ear,
and forget your people and your father’s house.
11 Let the king desire your beauty.[b]
Because he is your lord, therefore[c] bow down to him.
12 Even the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift.
The rich from among people will seek your favor.[d]
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within;[e]
her garment is of gold embroidered cloth.
14 She is brought to the king in colorful garments.
The young women behind her, her attendants,
are being brought to you.
15 They are led with joy and gladness.
They enter the palace of the king.
16 In place of your[f] fathers will be your sons.
You will make them princes in all the land.[g]
17 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever.
Jacob and Esau
19 Now these are the generations[a] of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac, 20 And Isaac was forty years old[b] when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife. 21 And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant?”[c] And she went to inquire of Yahweh. 23 And Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from birth[d] shall be divided. And one people shall be stronger than the other.[e] And the elder shall serve the younger.” 24 And when her days to give birth were completed,[f] then—behold—twins were in her womb. 25 And the first came out red, all his body[g] was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau. 26 And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old[h] at their birth. 27 And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilled[i] hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.
Released from the Law through Death
7 Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband. 3 Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man while[a] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she[b] belongs to another man. 4 So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, because we[c] have died to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter of the law.
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