Wednesday, July 7, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24

^41:55And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you. ⁵⁶And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also. ⁵⁷And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

^42:5And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan. ⁶And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him, ⁷And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

¹⁷So he put them in prison three days. ¹⁸And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God. ¹⁹If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses. ²⁰And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said. ²¹And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us. ²²And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required. ²³And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter. ²⁴And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning he spoke to them.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 32:2-3, 10-11, 18-19 (Psalm 33 at Mass)

²Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. ³Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.

¹⁰The Lord bringeth to naught the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes. ¹¹But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

¹⁸Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy. ¹⁹To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 10:1-7

¹And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities. ²And the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, ³James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, ⁴Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. ⁵These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not. ⁶But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.