Readings for Celebrating Advent

² And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.”

³ And He said, “I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation.

⁴ I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.”

⁵ And Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.