Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²² “These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. ^(A)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³ Now it happened that when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. ²⁴ And you said, ‘Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives. ^25 (B)So now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die. ²⁶ For ^(C)who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ²⁷ As for you, go near and hear all that Yahweh our God says; then speak to us all that Yahweh our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.’

²⁸ “And Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, ^(D)and Yahweh said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. ^29 (E)Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and ^(F)keep all My commandments all the days, that ^(G)it may be well with them and with their sons forever! ³⁰ Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.” ^31 (H)But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.’ ³² So you shall be careful to do just as Yahweh your God has commanded you; ^(I)you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. ^33 (J)In all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, you shall walk, ^(K)that you may live and that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

The Believer’s Rest

4 Therefore, let us fear, lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have ^(A)fallen short of it. ² For indeed we have had good news proclaimed to us, just as they also; but ^(B)the word ^[a]that was heard did not profit those ^[b]who were not united with faith among those who heard. ³ For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,

although His works were finished ^(D)from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For He has spoken ^(E)somewhere in this way concerning the seventh day: “^(F)And God ^(G)rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵ and again in this passage, “^(H)They shall not enter My rest.” ⁶ Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news proclaimed to them failed to enter because of ^(I)disobedience, ⁷ He again determines a certain day, “Today,” saying ^[c]through David after so long a time just ^(J)as has been said before,

⁸ For ^(L)if ^[d]Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. ⁹ So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. ¹⁰ For the one who has entered His rest has himself also ^(M)rested from his works, as ^(N)God did from His. ¹¹ Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall into the same ^(O)example of ^(P)disobedience.