Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

119 [Aleph.] O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

⁷ I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Thy righteousness.

⁸ Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!

⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;

¹¹ in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;

¹² they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.

¹³ `And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin.

¹⁴ `And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.'

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

²⁶ And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

²⁷ And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

²⁸ And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

³⁰ and Jesus having taken up [the word], said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving [him] half dead.

³¹ `And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;

³² and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side.

³³ `But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,

³⁴ and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;

³⁵ and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.

³⁶ `Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

³⁷ and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'