Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:

² And he commanded him, saying, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle,)

³ Unless he first do these things: He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.

⁴ He shall be vested with a linen tunick, he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head: for these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

⁵ And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.

²⁰ After he hath cleansed the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat:

²¹ And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins: and praying that they may light on his head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.

²² And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert,

²³ Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and putting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the sanctuary, and leaving them there,

²⁴ He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments. And after that he has come out and hath offered his own holocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and for the people:

²⁵ And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn upon the altar.

²⁶ But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

²⁷ But the calf and the buck goat, that were sacrificed for sin, and whose blood was carried into the sanctuary, to accomplish the atonement, they shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn with fire, their skins and their flesh, and their dung:

²⁸ And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

¹⁸ And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.

¹⁹ And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only, and he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

²⁰ And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?

²¹ And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith, and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

²² And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.