Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

119 ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah.

² Blessed are they that observe his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart;

³ Who also do no unrighteousness: they walk in his ways.

⁴ Thou hast enjoined thy precepts, to be kept diligently.

⁵ Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

⁶ Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

⁷ I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

⁸ I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not utterly.

22 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

² If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.

³ If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.

⁴ If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.

⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man's field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make [it] good.

⁶ —If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

⁷ —If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him restore double;

⁸ if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

⁹ As to all manner of fraud,—as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which [a man] saith, It is this—the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour.

¹⁰ If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see [it],

¹¹ an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good.

¹² But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner.

¹³ If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn.

¹⁴ —And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good;

¹⁵ if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire.

9 The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

² For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which [were] both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;

³ but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,

⁴ having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which [were] the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;

⁵ and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now [the time] to speak in detail.

⁶ Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;

⁷ but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:

⁸ the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the [holy of] holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has [its] standing;

⁹ the which [is] an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

¹⁰ [consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things right.

¹¹ But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

¹² nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.