Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025

Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24

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.

⁵ Thus the sons of Israel were among the other people who came to get supplies, there being famine in Canaan.

⁶ It was Joseph, as the man in authority over the country, who allocated the rations to the entire population. So Joseph's brothers went and bowed down before him, their faces touching the ground.

⁷ As soon as Joseph saw his brothers he recognised them. But he did not make himself known to them, and he spoke harshly to them. 'Where have you come from?' he asked. 'From Canaan to get food,' they replied.

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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