Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

¹¹ Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.

¹² The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

¹⁸ Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

¹⁹ And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

²⁰ And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way.

²¹ And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

²² He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau.

²³ And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,

²⁴ He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.

²⁵ Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

²⁶ He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.

²⁷ He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed.

²⁸ God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

²⁹ And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

²¹ In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.

²² All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal him.

²³ And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see.

²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.