Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

100 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands!

² Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing!

³ Know ye that the Lord, He is God; it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise! Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name!

⁵ For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations.

¹⁸ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, “Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren who are in Egypt and see whether they are yet alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

¹⁹ And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life.”

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

²¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, “When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand; but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

²² And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, ‘Thus saith the Lord: Israel is My son, even My firstborn.

²³ And I say unto thee, “Let My son go, that he may serve Me.” And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.’”

3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

² who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all His house.

³ For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath built the house hath more honor than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by some man, but He that built all things is God.

⁵ And Moses verily was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken thereafter;

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a Son over His own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope, firm unto the end.