Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

9 And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

² And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

³ And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.

⁴ And there stood up upon the seep of the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.

⁵ And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all blessing and praise.

⁶ Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.

⁷ Thou, O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

⁸ And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

⁹ And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.

¹⁰ And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.

¹¹ And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

¹² And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

¹³ Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

¹⁴ Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

¹⁵ And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.

²¹ Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

²² Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

²³ Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

²⁶ That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish.

²⁸ So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

³⁰ Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

³² This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church.

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

² Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

⁴ And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁵ Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ:

⁶ Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

⁷ With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.

⁸ Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond, or free.

⁹ And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings, knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.