Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

² Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.

³ And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷ Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.

⁸ “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”

²⁵ ‘Also, when a woman’s discharge of blood runs for a long time in addition to the time of her impurity (that is, when she has a discharge longer than her impurity), all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be unclean, as in the time of her impurity.

²⁶ ‘Every bed upon which she lies (as long as her discharge lasts) shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And whatever she sits upon shall be unclean, as her uncleanness when she is isolated.

²⁷ ‘And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁸ ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count seven days. And afterward, she shall be clean.

²⁹ ‘And on the eighth day, she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the Priest at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

³⁰ ‘And the Priest shall make a Sin Offering of the one, and of the other a Burnt Offering. And the Priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD, for the issue of her uncleanness.

³¹ ‘Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness if they defile My Tabernacle that is among them.

22 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

² “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, so that they are separated from the Holy things of the children of Israel, and so that they do not pollute My Holy Name in those things which they hallow to Me. I am the LORD.

³ “Say to them, ‘Whoever of all your seed, among your generations after you, who touches the Holy things which the children of Israel hallow to the LORD—having his uncleanness upon him—that person shall be cut off from My sight. I am the LORD.

⁴ ‘Also, whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has a discharge, he shall not eat of the Holy things until he is clean. And whoever touches anyone who is unclean by reason of the dead, or a man whose issue of seed runs from him,

⁵ ‘or the man who touches any creeping thing by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may take uncleanness (whatever uncleanness he has),

⁶ ‘the person who has touched such ones shall therefore be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the Holy things unless he has washed his flesh with water.

⁷ ‘But when the Sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall eat of the Holy things afterward. For it is his food.

⁸ ‘Of a beast that dies naturally, or is torn by other beasts (by which he may be defiled), he shall not eat. I am the LORD.

⁹ ‘Let them therefore keep My Ordinance, lest if they defile it, they bear their sin for it and die for it. I, the LORD, sanctify them.

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with the unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or, what share has the believer with the unbeliever?

¹⁶ And what assent has the Temple of God with idols? For you are the Temple of the living God. As God has said, “I will dwell among them, and walk there. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ “Therefore, come out from among them, and separate yourselves”, says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing. And I will receive you.

¹⁸ “And I will be a Father to you. And you shall be my sons and daughters”, says the Lord Almighty.

7 Seeing then we have these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, and complete our sanctification in the fear of God.

² Receive us. We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have defrauded no one.