Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

TETH.

⁶⁵ ¶ Thou hast dealt well with thy slave, O LORD, according unto thy word,

⁶⁶ which teaches me discernment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁷ ¶ Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

⁶⁸ ¶ Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

⁶⁹ ¶ The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

⁷⁰ Their heart became fat like grease, but I delight in thy law.

⁷¹ ¶ It was good for me that I have been humbled, that I might learn thy statutes.

⁷² ¶ The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

16 ¶ And the LORD spoke unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD and died;

² and the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron, thy brother, that he not enter at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the seat of reconciliation, which is upon the ark, that he not die; for I will appear in the cloud above the seat of reconciliation.

³ Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock as sin and a ram as a burnt offering.

⁴ He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen underwear upon his flesh and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he cover himself. These are holy garments; and he shall wash his flesh with water and put them on.

⁵ ¶ And he shall take of the congregation of the sons of Israel two he goats as the sin and one ram as a burnt offering.

²⁰ ¶ And when he has made an end of reconciling the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, he shall cause the live he goat to be brought;

²¹ and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live he goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their rebellions and all their sins, putting them thus upon the head of the he goat and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man prepared for this;

²² and that he goat shall bear upon itself all their iniquities unto an uninhabitable land; and he shall send the he goat into the wilderness.

²³ After that, Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the testimony and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on to enter into the sanctuary, and shall put them there.

²⁴ Then he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come forth after that and make his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make reconciliation for himself and for the people.

²⁵ And the fat of the sin he shall incense upon the altar.

²⁶ And he that took the he goat to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh with water and afterward come into the camp.

²⁷ And he shall take outside the camp the bullock of the sin and the goat of the sin, whose blood was brought in to make the reconciliation in the sanctuary; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.

²⁸ And he that burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

¹⁸ ¶ Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

¹⁹ And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing upon it, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee from now on for ever. And then the fig tree withered away.

²⁰ And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

²¹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do this to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.

²² And all things, whatever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.