Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
10 Listen, O princess.[a]
Observe and pay attention![b]
Forget your homeland[c] and your family.[d]
11 Then[e] the king will be attracted by[f] your beauty.
After all, he is your master. Submit[g] to him.[h]
12 Rich people from Tyre
will seek your favor by bringing a gift.[i]
13 The princess[j] looks absolutely magnificent,[k]
decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.[l]
14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king.
Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her,
are led before you.[m]
15 They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession
and enter the royal palace.[n]
16 Your[o] sons will carry on[p] the dynasty of your ancestors;[q]
you will make them princes throughout the land.
17 I will proclaim your greatness through the coming years,[r]
then the nations will praise you[s] forever.
Jacob and Esau
19 This is the account of Isaac,[a] the son of Abraham.
Abraham became the father of Isaac. 20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah,[b] the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.[c]
21 Isaac prayed[d] to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 But the children struggled[e] inside her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?”[f] So she asked the Lord,[g] 23 and the Lord said to her,
“Two nations[h] are in your womb,
and two peoples will be separated from within you.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.”
24 When the time came for Rebekah to give birth,[i] there were[j] twins in her womb. 25 The first came out reddish[k] all over,[l] like a hairy[m] garment, so they named him Esau.[n] 26 When his brother came out with[o] his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob.[p] Isaac was sixty years old[q] when they were born.
27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled[r] hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.[s]
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law
7 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters[a] (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person[b] as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her[c] husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.[d] 3 So then,[e] if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her[f] husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress. 4 So, my brothers and sisters,[g] you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.[h] 5 For when we were in the flesh,[i] the sinful desires,[j] aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body[k] to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died[l] to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.[m]
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