2Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. 3Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority. 4You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place. 5The brothers Simeon and Levi: vessels of iniquity waging war. 6Let not my soul go by their counsel, nor my glory be within their meeting. For in their fury they killed a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. 7Cursed be their fury, because it was obstinate, and their indignation, because it was harsh. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel. 8Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be at the necks of your enemies; the sons of your father will reverence you. 9Judah is a lion’s young. You have gone up to the prey, my son. While resting, you have lain like a lion. And just like a lioness, who would rouse him? 10The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.
1A Psalm according to Solomon. 2Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment. 3Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice. 4He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser. 5And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation. 6He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth. 7In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away. 8And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world. 9In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground. 10The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts. 11And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him. 12For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper. 13He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor. 14He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight. 15And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long. 16And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth. 17May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.
1The book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2Abraham conceived Isaac. And Isaac conceived Jacob. And Jacob conceived Judah and his brothers. 3And Judah conceived Perez and Zerah by Tamar. And Perez conceived Hezron. And Hezron conceived Ram. 4And Ram conceived Amminadab. And Amminadab conceived Nahshon. And Nahshon conceived Salmon. 5And Salmon conceived Boaz by Rahab. And Boaz conceived Obed by Ruth. And Obed conceived Jesse. 6And Jesse conceived king David. And king David conceived Solomon, by her who had been the wife of Uriah. 7And Solomon conceived Rehoboam. And Rehoboam conceived Abijah. And Abijah conceived Asa. 8And Asa conceived Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat conceived Joram. And Joram conceived Uzziah. 9And Uzziah conceived Jotham. And Jotham conceived Ahaz. And Ahaz conceived Hezekiah. 10And Hezekiah conceived Manasseh. And Manasseh conceived Amos. And Amos conceived Josiah. 11And Josiah conceived Jechoniah and his brothers in the transmigration of Babylon. 12And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechoniah conceived Shealtiel. And Shealtiel conceived Zerubbabel. 13And Zerubbabel conceived Abiud. And Abiud conceived Eliakim. And Eliakim conceived Azor. 14And Azor conceived Zadok. And Zadok conceived Achim. And Achim conceived Eliud. 15And Eliud conceived Eleazar. And Eleazar conceived Matthan. And Matthan conceived Jacob. 16And Jacob conceived Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17And so, all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the transmigration of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transmigration of Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.