Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!

² Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.

³ Blow the trumpet on the New Moon, in the time appointed at our Feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, a Law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He set this in Joseph for a testimony. When He came out of the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ “I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden. His hands have left the pots.

⁷ “You called in affliction and I delivered you, answered you in the secret of the thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ “Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you will listen to me

⁹ “and will have no strange god in you or worship any strange god

¹⁰ “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!

⁵ “Also, you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes from it. Two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

⁶ “And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure Table before the LORD.

⁷ “You shall also put pure incense upon the rows, so that it may be on the Bread for a remembrance, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

⁸ “Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the LORD, forevermore, from the children of Israel, for an everlasting Covenant.

⁹ “And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. And they shall eat it in the Holy Place. For it is Most Holy to him of the offerings of the LORD, made by fire, by a perpetual Ordinance.”

¹⁹ “Did not Moses give you a Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

²⁰ The people answered, and said, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?”

²¹ Jesus answered, and said to them, “I have done one work, and you all marvel.

²² “Therefore, Moses gave circumcision to you - not because it is of Moses, but of the Fathers - and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I have made a man entirely whole on the Sabbath?

²⁴ “Do not judge according to the appearance. But, judge righteous judgment.”