Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.

81 Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;

² Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;

⁵ He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

⁶ I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

⁷ Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

⁹ There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

¹⁰ I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

⁵ And thou shalt take fine wheaten flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two tenths.

⁶ And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.

⁷ And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row; and it shall be a bread of remembrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

⁸ Every sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, on the part of the children of Israel: [it is] an everlasting covenant.

⁹ And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of Jehovah's offerings by fire: [it is] an everlasting statute.

¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

²⁰ The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

²² Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

²³ If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?

²⁴ Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.