Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
17 Hear what is right, O LORD. Consider my cry. Hear my prayer of unfeigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from Your presence. And let Your eyes behold equity.
3 You have tested and visited my heart in the night. You have tried me and found nothing. For I have purposed that my mouth should not offend.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the words of Your lips I kept myself from the paths of the cruel man.
5 Keep my steps in Your paths, so that my feet do not slide.
6 I have called upon You. Surely You will hear me, O God. Incline Your ear to me and hear my words.
7 Show Your marvelous mercies, You Who are the Savior of those who trust in You from such as resist Your right hand.
15 But I will behold Your face in righteousness. And when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. Who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies (and from the hand of Saul) and said,
3 Then Jacob sent messengers ahead to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, into the country of Edom.
4 To whom he gave commandment, saying, “You shall speak to my lord, Esau, like this: ‘Your servant Jacob says this, “I have been a stranger with Laban and remained until this time.
5 “I have cattle also and asses, sheep, and men servants, and women servants; and I have sent to show my lord, so that I may find grace in your sight.”’”
6 So, the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, Esau; and he also comes against you, and four hundred men with him.”
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was very troubled, and divided the people that were with him, and the sheep, and the cattle, and the camels into two companies.
8 For he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, the other company shall escape.”
9 Moreover, Jacob said, “O God of my father, Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac, Lord, Who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will do you good’,
10 “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the Truth, which You have shown to Your servant. For with my staff, I came over this Jordan; and now I have become two camps.
11 “Please, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mother with children.
12 “For You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
13 And he stayed there that same night and took what he received as a present for Esau, his brother:
14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty milch camels (with their colts), forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
16 So he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every flock by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass before me and put a space between each flock.”
17 And he commanded the first, saying, “If my brother, Esau, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose servant are you? And where are you going? And whose are these before you?’
18 “Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. And behold, he himself also is behind us.’”
19 So, likewise, he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the flocks, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20 “And you shall say, moreover, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob comes after us.’ For he thought, “I will appease his wrath with the present that goes before me; and afterward, I will see his face. It may be that he will accept me.”
21 So they went, with the present, before him. But he remained that night with the company.
37 Now when they heard it, they were pricked in their hearts, and said to Peter and the other Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?”
38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 “For the promise is made to you and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
40 And he testified and exhorted them with many other words, saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
41 Then those who gladly received his Word were baptized. And the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.
42 And they continued in the Apostles’ doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread, and prayers.
43 And fear came upon every soul. And many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.
44 And all who believed were in one place and shared everything.
45 And they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to anyone who had need.
46 And they continued daily, with one mind, in the Temple. And breaking bread at home, they ate their meals together, with gladness and singleness of heart,
47 praising God. And they had favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily, those who would be saved.
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