Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;

⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;

⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

¹¹ Moreover, by them is thy servant enlightened; in keeping them there is great reward.

¹² Who understandeth [his] errors? Purify me from secret [faults].

¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be perfect, and I shall be innocent from great transgression.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain, opposite to Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

² There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

³ And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them;

⁴ after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] at Edrei.

⁵ On this side the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to unfold this law, saying,

⁶ Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have stayed long enough in this mountain.

⁷ Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

⁸ Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

⁹ And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.

¹⁰ Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

¹¹ Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath said unto you!

¹² How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?

¹³ Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.

¹⁴ And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.

¹⁵ So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers for your tribes.

¹⁶ And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him.

¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time all the things that ye should do.

²⁰ And he was in bitter hostility with [the] Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

²¹ And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat [of honour], Herod made a public oration to them.

²² And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

²³ And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.

²⁴ But the word of God grew and spread itself.

²⁵ And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with them John, surnamed Mark.