Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
124 The people of God, escaping a great peril, do acknowledge themselves to be delivered, not by their own force, but by the power of God. 4 They declare the greatness of the peril. 6 And praise the Name of God.
A song of degrees, or Psalm of David.
1 If the Lord had not been [a]on our side, (may Israel now say)
2 If the Lord had [not] been on our side, when men rose up against us,
3 They had then swallowed us up [b]quick, when their wrath was kindled against us.
4 Then the [c]waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then had the swelling waters gone over our soul.
6 Praised be the Lord, which hath not given us as a prey unto their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the [d]snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
8 Our help is in the Name of the Lord, which hath made heaven and earth.
15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, [a]It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us again all the evil which we did unto him.
16 Therefore they sent unto Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying,
17 Thus shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive now, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin: for they rewarded thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father’s [b]God. And Joseph wept, when [c]they spake unto him.
18 Also his brethren came unto him, and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we be thy servants.
19 To whom Joseph said, (A)Fear not: for [d]am not I under [e]God?
20 When ye thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, that he might bring to pass, as it is this day, and save much people alive.
21 Fear not now therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and he comforted them, and spake [f]kindly unto them.
22 ¶ So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an [g]hundred and ten years.
23 (B)And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children, even unto the third generation: also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, (C)I am ready to die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, (D)[h]God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry my bones hence.
26 So Joseph died, when he was an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and put him in a chest in Egypt.
5 ¶ [a]And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had (A)forgotten to take bread with them.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have brought no bread.
8 But Jesus [b]knowing it, said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye thus among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the [c]five loaves, when there were (B)five thousand men, and how many baskets took ye up?
10 Neither the seven loaves when there were (C)four thousand men, and how many baskets took ye up?
11 Why [d]perceive ye not that I [e]said not unto you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
12 Then understood they that he had not said that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees, and Sadducees.
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