December 17

And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days. ²Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel your father: ⁸Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies: the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. ⁹Juda is a lion’s whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? ¹⁰The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

¹A psalm on Solomon. ²Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. ³Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. ⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. ⁷In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken sway. ⁸And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. ¹⁷Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

℟ In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: ²Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren. ³And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. ⁴And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon. ⁵And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot Jesse. ⁶And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias. ⁷And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa. ⁸And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias. ⁹And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. ¹⁰And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manesses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. ¹¹And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. ¹²And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. ¹³And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor. ¹⁴And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud. ¹⁵And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob. ¹⁶And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. ¹⁷So all the generations, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.