Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

113 Hallelujah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, praise the name of Jehovah.

² Blessed be the name of Jehovah, from this time forth and for evermore!

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let Jehovah's name be praised.

⁴ Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

⁶ Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth?

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

⁸ To set [him] among nobles, among the nobles of his people.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

24 And Abraham was old, [and] advanced in age; and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

² And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh,

³ and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;

⁴ but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

⁵ And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I, then, bring thy son again in any case to the land from which thou hast removed?

⁶ And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.

⁷ Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land—he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence.

⁸ And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be quit of this my oath: only, bring not my son thither again.

⁹ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore unto him concerning that matter.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; now all the treasure of his master was under his hand; and he arose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

5 Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort [him] as a father, younger [men] as brethren,

² elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

³ Honour widows who are really widows;

⁴ but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to [their] parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

⁵ Now she who [is] a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put [her] hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

⁶ But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead [while] living.

⁷ And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

⁸ But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.