Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and consider and incline your ear. Also, forget your own people and your father’s house.

¹¹ So shall the King have pleasure in your beauty; for He is your LORD. And reverence Him.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre, with the rich of the people, shall do homage before your face with presents.

¹³ The King’s daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is of embroidered gold.

¹⁴ She shall be brought to the King in clothing of needlework. The virgins who follow after her (her companions) shall be brought to You.

¹⁵ With joy and gladness they shall be brought and shall enter into the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Your children shall be in place of your fathers. You shall make them princes through all the Earth.

¹⁷ I will make Your Name remembered through all generations. Therefore, the people shall give thanks to You. World without end. To him who excels upon Alamoth: a song committed to the sons of Korah.

¹⁹ Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife (the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramite of Padan Aram, sister to Laban, the Aramite).

²¹ And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was persuaded by him; and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.

²² But the children strove together within her. Therefore, she said, “Seeing this is so, why am I like this?” So, she went to ask the LORD.

²³ And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples shall be divided out of your core. And the one people shall be mightier than the other; and the elder shall serve the younger.”

²⁴ Therefore, when her time of deliverance was fulfilled, behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁵ So he who came out first was red. And he was as rough as a garment all over. And they called his name, Esau.

²⁶ And afterward, his brother came out. And his hand held Esau by the heel. Therefore, his name was called, Jacob. Now Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah bore them.

²⁷ And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter and lived in the fields. But Jacob was a plain man and dwelt in tents.

7 Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the Law) that the Law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

² For the woman who is in subjection to a man, is bound by the Law to the man, while he lives. But if the man is dead, she is released from the Law of the man.

³ So then, if while the man lives, she takes another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But, if the man is dead, she is free from the Law; so that she is not an adulteress, even though she takes another man.

⁴ So you, my brothers, are also dead to the Law, by the body of Christ; so that you should belong to Another (that is, to Him Who was raised up from the dead) so that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sufferings of sins (which were by the Law) were at work in our limbs, bringing forth fruit unto death.

⁶ But now, we are delivered from the Law (that being dead in which we were held), so that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of letter.