Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 ¶ And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

² And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD,

³ and shall make him of quick olfaction in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge according to the sight of his eyes, neither reprove according to the hearing of his ears:

⁴ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the spirit of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his kidneys.

⁶ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a child shall shepherd them.

⁷ The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

²⁰ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

²¹ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, and I will consume them in a moment.

²² And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

²³ ¶ Then the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

²⁴ Speak unto the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves now from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

²⁵ And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

²⁶ And he spoke unto the congregation, saying, Depart from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest peradventure ye be consumed in all their sins.

²⁷ So they removed themselves from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little children.

²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them out of my own heart.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

³⁰ But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

³¹ And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground broke open under them;

³² the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and all the men of Korah and all their goods.

³³ They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

³⁴ And all Israel, those that were round about them, fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

³⁵ ¶ And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

²³ ¶ And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, procuring to persuade them of that concerning Jesus, the Christ, out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning until evening.

²⁴ And some believed the things which were spoken, and some did not believe.

²⁵ And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken this word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

²⁶ saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive;

²⁷ for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them.

²⁸ Be it known, therefore, unto you that this saving health of God is sent unto the Gentiles and that they will hear it.

²⁹ And when he had said these words, the Jews departed and had a great dispute among themselves.

³⁰ ¶ And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him,

³¹ preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all liberty, without hindrance.