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Readings for Celebrating Advent
Scripture passages that focus on the meaning of Advent and Christmas.
Duration: 35 days
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
Genesis 46:2-5
2 God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”(A) 3 Then he said, “I am God,[a] the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.(B) 4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”(C)
5 Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.(D)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
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