Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
10 [a]Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear: forget also thine own people and thy father’s house.
11 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord, and reverence thou him.
12 And the [b]daughter of [c]Tyre with the rich of the people, shall do homage before thy face with presents.
13 The King’s daughter is all glorious [d]within: her clothing is of broidered gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins that follow after her, and her companions shall be brought unto thee.
15 With joy and gladness shall they be brought, and shall enter into the king’s palace.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall thy [e]children be: thou shalt make them princes [f]through all the earth.
17 I will make thy [g]Name to be remembered through all generations: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.
27 8 Jacob getteth the blessing from Esau by his mother’s counsel. 38 Esau by weeping moveth his father to pity him. 41 Esau hateth Jacob and threateneth his death. 43 Rebekah sendeth Jacob away.
1 And when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim (so that he could not see) he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son. And he answered him, [a]I am here.
2 Then he said, Behold, I am now old, and know not the day of my death.
3 Wherefore now, I pray thee take thine instruments, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee to the field, that thou mayest [b]take me some venison.
4 Then make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it me that I may eat, and that my [c]soul may bless thee, before I die.
5 (Now Rebekah heard, when Isaac spake to Esau his son) and Esau went into the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6 ¶ Then Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I have heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the Lord, afore my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, hear my voice in that which I command thee.
9 [d]Get thee now to the flock, and bring me thence two good kids of the goats, that I may make pleasant meat of them for thy father, such as he loveth.
10 Then thou shalt bring it to thy father, and he shall eat, to the intent that he may bless thee before his death.
11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is rough, and I am smooth.
12 My father may possibly feel me, and I shall seem [e]to him as a [f]mocker: so shall I bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
13 But his mother said unto him, [g][h]Upon me be thy curse, my son: only hear my voice, and go and bring me them.
14 So he went and set them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loved.
15 And Rebekah took fair clothes of her elder son Esau, which were in her house, and clothed Jacob her younger son:
16 And she covered his hands and the smooth of his neck with the skins of the kids of the goats.
17 Afterward she put the pleasant meat and bread, which she had prepared, in the hand of her son Jacob.
7 [a]What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid. Nay, I knew not sin, but by the Law: for I had not known [b]lust, except the Law had said, (A)Thou shalt not lust.
8 But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is [c]dead.
9 [d]For I once was alive, without the [e]law: but when the commandment [f]came, sin revived,
10 But I [g]died: and the same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death.
11 For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and thereby slew me.
12 [h]Wherefore the Law is (B)holy, and that [i]commandment is holy, and just, and good.
13 [j]Was that then which is good, [k]made death unto me? God forbid: but sin, that it might [l]appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sin might be [m]out of measure sinful by the commandment.
14 [n]For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 [o]For I [p]allow not that which I do: for what I [q]would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.
16 If I do then that which I would not, I consent to the Law, that it is good.
17 Now then, it is no more I, that do it, but [r]sin that dwelleth in me.
18 [s]For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me: but I find [t]no means to perform that which is good,
19 For I do not the good thing, which I would, but the evil, which I would not, that do I.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
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