Readings for Celebrating Advent

² He heard him by a vision in the night calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.

³ God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father: fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

⁴ I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

⁵ And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,