Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

99 The LORD reigns! Let the people tremble. He sits between the Cherubims. Let the Earth be moved!

² The LORD is great in Zion; and He is high above all the people.

³ They shall praise Your great and fearful Name (It is Holy).

⁴ Also, the King’s power loves judgment. You establish equity. You have executed judgment and justice in Jacob.

⁵ Exalt the LORD our God and bow down before His footstool. He is Holy.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among His Priests, and Samuel among such as call upon His Name. These called upon the LORD and He heard them.

⁷ He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar. They kept His testimonies, the Law which He gave them.

⁸ You heard them, O LORD our God. You were a favorable God to them, though You took vengeance for their evil deeds.

⁹ Exalt the LORD our God and bow down before His Holy Mountain; for the LORD our God is Holy. A Psalm of praise

9 And on the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel.

² Then he said to Aaron, “Take a young calf for a Sin Offering, and a ram for a Burnt Offering, without blemish, and bring them before the LORD.

³ “And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a Sin Offering, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, without blemish for a Burnt Offering.

⁴ ‘Also a bullock and a ram, for Peace Offerings to offer before the LORD, and a Meat Offering, mingled with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”

⁵ Then they brought that which Moses commanded before the Tabernacle of the Congregation. And all the assembly drew near and stood before the LORD.

⁶ For Moses had said, “This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do. And the Glory of the LORD shall appear to you.”

⁷ Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the Altar and offer your Sin Offering, and your Burnt Offering, and make an atonement for yourself and for the people. Also, offer the offering of the people and make an atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”

⁸ So Aaron went to the Altar and killed the calf of the Sin Offering which was for himself.

⁹ And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his finger in the blood and put it upon the horns of the Altar and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the Altar.

¹⁰ But he burnt the fat and the kidneys and the fatty lobe of the liver of the Sin Offering upon the Altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹¹ The flesh also, and the hide, he burnt with fire, outside the camp.

²² So Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people and blessed them and came down from offering of the Sin Offering and the Burnt Offering and the Peace Offerings.23 Afterward, Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation and came out and blessed the people. And the Glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

²⁴ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the Burnt Offering and the fat upon the altar. Which, when all the people saw, they gave thanks and fell on their faces.

4 Therefore, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

² so that henceforth (as much time as remains in the flesh) he should not live after the lusts of man, but after the will of God.

³ For in the past of our lives, it may have sufficed for us to work after the same desires as the Gentiles: walking in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, in gluttony, carousing, and in abominable idolatries.

⁴ So, it seems strange to them that you do not run with them to the same excess of debauchery, and they speak evil of you.

⁵ They shall give account to Him Who is ready to judge quick and dead.

⁶ For to this purpose was the Gospel also preached to the dead: so that they might be condemned according to man in the flesh but might live according to God in the Spirit.