The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible in One
Year - Day 24
Genesis The Rape of Dinah
34: Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob,
went out to visit the women of the region. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the
Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.
3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the girl, and
spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me
this girl to be my wife.”
5 Now Jacob heard that Shechem[a] had defiled his daughter
Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace
until they came. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak
with him, 7 just as the sons of Jacob came in from the field. When they heard
of it, the men were indignant and very angry, because he had committed an
outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to
be done.
8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The heart of my son
Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage. 9 Make
marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for
yourselves. 10 You shall live with us; and the land shall be open to you; live
and trade in it, and get property in it.” 11 Shechem also said to her father
and to her brothers, “Let me find favor with you, and whatever you say to me I
will give. 12 Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will
give whatever you ask me; only give me the girl to be my wife.”
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor
deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. 14 They said to them,
“We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for
that would be a disgrace to us. 15 Only on this condition will we consent to
you: that you will become as we are and every male among you be circumcised. 16
Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for
ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people. 17 But if you will
not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be
gone.”
18 Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem. 19 And the
young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob’s
daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family. 20 So Hamor and his
son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,
saying, 21 “These people are friendly with us; let them live in the land and
trade in it, for the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters
in marriage, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only on this condition will
they agree to live among us, to become one people: that every male among us be
circumcised as they are circumcised. 23 Will not their livestock, their
property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they
will live among us.” 24 And all who went out of the city gate heeded Hamor and
his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate
of his city.
Dinah’s Brothers Avenge Their Sister
25 On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of the
sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came
against the city unawares, and killed all the males. 26 They killed Hamor and
his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went
away. 27 And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the
city, because their sister had been defiled. 28 They took their flocks and
their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29
All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the
houses, they captured and made their prey. 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and
Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of
the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they
gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my
household.” 31 But they said, “Should our sister be treated like a whore?”
Jacob Returns to Bethel
35: God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle
there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from
your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with
him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and
change your clothes; 3 then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an
altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been
with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods
that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under
the oak that was near Shechem.
5 As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all
around them, so that no one pursued them. 6 Jacob came to Luz (that is,
Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with
him, 7 and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel,[b] because
it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his
brother. 8 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak
below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.[c]
9 God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and
he blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall you be
called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he was called Israel. 11 God
said to him, “I am God Almighty:[d] be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a
company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you. 12 The
land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the
land to your offspring after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place
where he had spoken with him. 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he
had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on
it, and poured oil on it. 15 So Jacob called the place where God had spoken
with him Bethel.
The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel
16 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still
some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor.
17 When she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid;
for now you will have another son.” 18 As her soul was departing (for she
died), she named him Ben-oni;[e] but his father called him Benjamin.[f] 19 So
Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), 20
and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb,
which is there to this day. 21 Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond
the tower of Eder.
22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with
Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben
(Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of
Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and
Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These were the
sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
The Death of Isaac
27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba
(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens. 28 Now the
days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. 29 And Isaac breathed his last; he
died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau
and Jacob buried him.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 34:5 Heb he
b. Genesis 35:7 That is God of Bethel
c. Genesis 35:8 That is Oak of weeping
d. Genesis 35:11 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
e. Genesis 35:18 That is Son of my sorrow
f. Genesis 35:18 That is Son of the right hand or Son of the
South
Psalm 23: The Divine Shepherd
A Psalm of David.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down
in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;[a]
3 he restores my
soul.[b]
He leads me in right paths[c]
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[d]
I fear no evil;
for you are with me;
your rod and your
staff—
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my
enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely[e] goodness and mercy[f] shall follow me
all the days of my
life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
my whole life long.[g]
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 23:2 Heb waters of rest
b. Psalm 23:3 Or life
c. Psalm 23:3 Or paths of righteousness
d. Psalm 23:4 Or the valley of the shadow of death
e. Psalm 23:6 Or Only
f. Psalm 23:6 Or kindness
g. Psalm 23:6 Heb for length of days
Matthew 13: The Parable of Weeds among the Wheat
24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven
may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while
everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then
went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds
appeared as well. 27 And the slaves of the householder came and said to him,
‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds
come from?’ 28 He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The slaves said to him,
‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he replied, ‘No; for in
gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30 Let both of
them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the
reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but
gather the wheat into my barn.’”
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
31 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is
like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; 32 it is the
smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs
and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its
branches.”
The Parable of the Yeast
33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like
yeast that a woman took and mixed in with[a] three measures of flour until all
of it was leavened.”
The Use of Parables
34 Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a
parable he told them nothing. 35 This was to fulfill what had been spoken
through the prophet:[b]
“I will open my mouth to speak in parables;
I will proclaim what
has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”[c]
Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds
36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his
disciples approached him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of
the field.” 37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man;
38 the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom;
the weeds are the children of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sowed them is
the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40
Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the
end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect
out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, 42 and they will throw
them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. Let anyone with ears[d] listen!
Footnotes:
a. Matthew 13:33 Gk hid in
b. Matthew 13:35 Other ancient authorities read the prophet
Isaiah
c. Matthew 13:35 Other ancient authorities lack of the world
d. Matthew 13:43 Other ancient authorities add to hear
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