Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

26 `And it hath been, when thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and thou hast possessed it, and dwelt in it,

² that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put [it] in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there.

³ `And thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared to-day to Jehovah thy God, that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us;

⁴ and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.

⁵ `And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;

⁶ and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;

⁷ and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;

⁸ and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt, by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders,

⁹ and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land -- a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰ `And now, lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah; -- and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God,

¹¹ and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who [is] in thy midst.

91 He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

² He is saying of Jehovah, `My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,'

⁹ (For Thou, O Jehovah, [art] my refuge,) The Most High thou madest thy habitation.

¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,

¹¹ For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways,

¹² On the hands they bear thee up, Lest thou smite against a stone thy foot.

¹³ On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

¹⁴ Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him -- I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I [am] with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.

¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

⁸ But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

⁹ that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

¹⁰ for with the heart doth [one] believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

¹¹ for the Writing saith, `Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'

¹² for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him,

¹³ for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

² forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

³ and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

⁴ And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

⁵ And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

⁶ and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

⁷ thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me -- all shall be thine.'

⁸ And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

⁹ And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

¹⁰ for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

¹¹ and -- On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

¹² And Jesus answering said to him -- `It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

¹³ And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.