Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²² And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

²³ and he took them and led them over the river, and led over what he had.

²⁴ And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of Jacob's thigh was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

²⁷ And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

²⁹ And Jacob asked and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel—For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

³¹ And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped upon his hip.

A Prayer of David.

17 Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.

² Let my judgment come forth from thy presence, let thine eyes regard equity.

³ Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent [man].

⁵ When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.

⁶ I have called upon thee, for thou answerest me, O God. Incline thine ear unto me, hear my speech.

⁷ Shew wondrously thy loving-kindnesses, O thou that savest by thy right hand them that trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them].

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

9 I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,

² that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

³ for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

⁴ who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

⁵ whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

¹³ And Jesus, having heard it, went away thence by ship to a desert place apart. And the crowds having heard [of it] followed him on foot from the cities.

¹⁴ And going out he saw a great crowd, and was moved with compassion about them, and healed their infirm.

¹⁵ But when even was come, his disciples came to him saying, The place is desert, and [much of] the [day] time already gone by; dismiss the crowds, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.

¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give *ye* them to eat.

¹⁷ But they say to him, We have not here save five loaves and two fishes.

¹⁸ And he said, Bring them here to me.

¹⁹ And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave [them] to the disciples, and the disciples [gave them] to the crowds.

²⁰ And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was over and above of fragments twelve hand-baskets full.

²¹ But those that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.