Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 6th, 2021

Reading 1, Genesis 32:23-33

²³ That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

²⁴ After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too.

²⁵ And Jacob was left alone. Then someone wrestled with him until daybreak

²⁶ who, seeing that he could not master him, struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

²⁷ He said, 'Let me go, for day is breaking.' Jacob replied, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.'

²⁸ The other said, 'What is your name?' 'Jacob,' he replied.

²⁹ He said, 'No longer are you to be called Jacob, but Israel since you have shown your strength against God and men and have prevailed.'

³⁰ Then Jacob asked, 'Please tell me your name.' He replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' With that, he blessed him there.

³¹ Jacob named the place Peniel, 'Because I have seen God face to face,' he said, 'and have survived.'

³² The sun rose as he passed Peniel, limping from his hip.

³³ That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh sinew which is at the hip socket: because he had struck Jacob at the hip socket on the thigh sinew.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 17:1, 2-3, 6-7, 8, 15

¹ [Prayer Of David] Listen, Yahweh, to an upright cause, pay attention to my cry, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free from deceit.

² From your presence will issue my vindication, your eyes fixed on what is right.

³ You probe my heart, examine me at night, you test me by fire and find no evil. I have not sinned with my mouth

⁶ I call upon you, God, for you answer me; turn your ear to me, hear what I say.

⁷ Show the evidence of your faithful love, saviour of those who hope in your strength against attack.

⁸ Guard me as the pupil of an eye, shelter me in the shadow of your wings

¹⁵ But I in my uprightness will see your face, and when I awake I shall be filled with the vision of you.

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