Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy wonders; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

⁹ Thou dost visit the earth, and when thou hast caused it to want, thou dost greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water; thou dost prepare their grain, according to thy will.

¹⁰ Thou dost water its rows abundantly; thou dost settle its furrows; thou dost make it soft with showers of rain; thou dost bless its sprouting.

¹¹ Thou dost crown the year with thy goodness, and thy clouds distill fatness.

¹² They fall upon the habitations of the wilderness; and the hills gird themselves with happiness.

¹³ The plains clothe themselves with sheep, and the valleys cover themselves with grain; they give shouts of triumph, they even sing.

³⁷ ¶ And Jacob took rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut tree and peeled white strakes in them and made the white appear which was in the rods.

³⁸ And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink that they should conceive when they came to drink.

³⁹ And the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted sheep.

⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and put with his flock the ringstraked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them together with Laban’s sheep.

⁴¹ And it came to pass, whenever the stronger sheep conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods.

⁴² But when the sheep were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

⁴³ And the man increased exceedingly, and had many sheep, and maidslaves and menslaves, and camels, and asses.

¹⁰ ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.

¹³ Therefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and stand fast, all the work having been finished.

¹⁴ Stand firm, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate, {the coat of mail and coat of arms} of righteousness,

¹⁵ and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace,

¹⁶ above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints