Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
133 Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brothers to dwell together.
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, which runs down upon the beard (even to Aaron’s beard, which went down on the border of his garments)
3 as the dew of Hermon which falls upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD appointed the blessing and life forever. A song of degrees
42 Then Jacob saw that there was food in Egypt; and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you stare at each other?”
2 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt. Go down there and buy us food, so that we may live and not die.”3 So, Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy corn from the Egyptians.
4 But Jacob would not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers. For he said, “Lest death should befall him.”
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy food among those who came. For there was famine in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was governor of the land, who sold to all the people of the land. Then Joseph’s brothers came and bowed their faces to the ground before him.
7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, he knew them. But he acted as a stranger toward them, and spoke to them roughly, and said to them, “From where have you come?” Who answered, “Out of the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
8 Now Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them; and he said to them, “You are spies, come to see the weakness of the land!”
10 But they said to him, “No, my lord! But your servants have come to buy food.
11 “We are all one man’s sons. We are honest! And your servants are not spies.”
12 But he said to them, “No, but you have come to see the weakness of the land!”
13 And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. And behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.”
14 Again Joseph said to them, “This is that which I spoke to you, saying, ‘You are spies.’
15 “By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16 “Send one of you to fetch your brother; and you shall be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested (whether there is truth in you). Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are but spies!”
17 So, he put them in prison for three days.
18 Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live. For I fear God.
19 “If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house; and you go and carry food for the famine of your houses.
20 “But, bring your younger brother to me, so that your words may be tested and that you do not die.” And they did so.
21 And they said to one another, “Truly, we have sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us and we would not hear him. Therefore, this trouble has come upon us.”
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not warn you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the child,’ and you would not hear? And lo, his blood is now required.”
23 And they were not aware that Joseph understood them. For he spoke to them through an interpreter.
24 Then, he turned from them and wept, and turned to them again and communed with them, and took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
25 So, Joseph commanded that they should fill their sacks with wheat and put every man’s money back in his sack and give them food for the journey. And he did this to them.
26 And they laid their food upon their donkeys and left there.
27 And, as one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey at the inn, he saw his money (for lo, it was in his sack’s mouth).
28 Then he said to his brothers, “My money is restored! For lo, it is here in my sack!” And their hearts failed them; and they were astonished and said to one another, “What is this that God has done to us?”
34 And when they had come over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
35 And when the men of that place knew Him, they sent word out around all that country, and brought to Him all who were sick;
36 and begged Him, that they might touch merely the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made whole.
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