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

24 Now, he had said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And you shall worship at a distance.

² “And Moses, by himself, shall come near to the LORD. But they shall not come near, nor shall the people go up with him.”

³ Afterward, Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the Laws. And all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the things which the LORD has said, we will do.”

⁴ And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early, and set up an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings of oxen, and sacrificed peace offerings to the LORD.

⁶ Then, Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins; and he sprinkled half of the blood on the altar.

⁷ Afterward, he took the Book of the Covenant, and read it in the audience of the people, who said, “All that the LORD has said, we will do, and be obedient.”

⁸ Then, Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold, the blood of the Covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these things.”

⁹ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel. And under His feet was, as it were, a pavement of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

¹¹ But He did not lay His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel. They, also, saw God, and ate and drank.

²² For this reason, also, I have often been hindered in coming to you.

²³ But now, seeing I no longer have a place in these regions, and have longed to come to you for many years,

²⁴ I will come to you when I take my journey into Spain. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be brought on my way there by you, after I have first enjoyed your company for a while.

²⁵ But now I go to Jerusalem, to minister to the Saints.

²⁶ For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution to the poor Saints who are at Jerusalem.

²⁷ It has pleased them. And indeed, they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is to minister to them also, in material things.

²⁸ Therefore, once I have performed this, and have sealed their fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.

²⁹ And I know when I come, that I shall come to you with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.

³⁰ Also brothers, I beg you for our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you would strive with me by prayers to God for me,

³¹ that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea; and that my service which I have to do at Jerusalem may be accepted by the Saints.

³² So that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

³³ Now, the God of peace be with you all. Amen.