Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

111 I will praise the LORD with my whole heart in the assembly and the congregation of the Just.

² The works of the LORD are great and are sought out by all those who love them.

³ His work is beautiful and glorious; and His righteousness endures forever.

⁴ He has made His wonderful works to be held in remembrance. The LORD is merciful and full of compassion.

⁵ He has given a portion to those who fear Him. He will be ever-mindful of His Covenant.

⁶ He has shown the power of His works to His people, in giving to them the heritage of the heathen.

⁷ The works of His hands are truth and judgment. All His statutes are true.

⁸ They are established forever and ever and are done in truth and equity.

⁹ He sent redemption to His people. He has commanded His Covenant forever. Holy and fearful is His Name.

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD. All those who observe them have good understanding. His praise endures forever. Praise the LORD

³³ The LORD also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

³⁴ “When you have come to the land of Canaan (which I give you in possession), if I send the plague of leprosy to a house in the land of your possession,

³⁵ “then he who owns the house shall come and tell the Priest, saying, ‘I think there is some plague in the house.’

³⁶ “Then the Priest shall command them to empty the house before the Priest goes into it, to see the plague, so that all that is in the house is not made unclean. And then shall the Priest go in to see the house.

³⁷ “And he shall examine the plague, to see if the plague is in the walls of the house, and if there are deep spots, greenish or reddish, which seem to be lower than the wall.

³⁸ “Then the Priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shall quarantine the house for seven days.

³⁹ “So, the Priest shall come again on the seventh day. And if he sees that the plague has increased in the walls of the house,

⁴⁰ “then the Priest shall command them to take away the stones in which the plague is. And they shall cast them into a foul place outside the city.

⁴¹ “Also, he shall have the house scraped inside, all around. And the dust that they have scraped off shall be poured outside the city in an unclean place.

⁴² “And they shall take other stones and put them in the places of those stones. And they shall take other mortar with which to plaster the house.

⁴³ “But if the plague comes again and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped and plastered the house,

⁴⁴ “then the Priest shall come and see. And if the plague grows in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house. It is unclean.

⁴⁵ “And he shall tear down the house, with the stones of it, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.

⁴⁶ “Moreover, he who goes into the house while it is quarantined, he shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁷ “He, also, who sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes. He, likewise, who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ “But if the Priest shall come and see that the plague has spread no further in the house, after the house is plastered, the Priest shall pronounce the house clean. For the plague is healed.

⁴⁹ “Then he shall take two sparrows, cedarwood, scarlet and hyssop, to purify the house.

⁵⁰ “And he shall kill one sparrow, over pure water, in an earthen vessel.

⁵¹ “And he shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet with the live sparrow and dip them in the blood of the slain Sparrow, and in the pure water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵² “So shall he cleanse the house with the blood of the sparrow, and with the pure water, and with the live sparrow, and with the cedarwood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet.

⁵³ “Afterward, he shall release the live sparrow out of the town into the broad fields. So shall he make atonement for the house. And it shall be clean.

¹³ Keep the true pattern of the wholesome words which you have heard from me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep that worthy thing which was committed to you through the Holy Ghost, Who dwells in us.

¹⁵ This you know: that all those who are in Asia have turned from me. Of which are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus. For he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

¹⁷ But when he was at Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me.

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy with the Lord on that Day. And you know very well in how many things he has ministered to me at Ephesus.