Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

All People Exhorted to Praise God.

A Psalm for ^[a]Thanksgiving.

¹⁸ Then Moses departed and returned to ^(A)his father-in-law ^[a]Jethro, and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” ¹⁹ Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go ^[b]back to Egypt, for ^(B)all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his ^(C)sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the ^(D)staff of God in his hand.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go ^[c]back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all ^(E)the wonders which I have put in your ^[d]power; but ^(F)I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. ²² Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: “^(G)Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³ So I said to you, ‘^(H)Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(I)I am going to kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

Jesus Our High Priest

3 Therefore, ^(A)holy brothers and sisters, partakers of a ^(B)heavenly calling, consider ^(C)the Apostle and ^(D)High Priest of our ^(E)confession: Jesus; ^2 [a]He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as ^(F)Moses also was in all His house. ^3 (G)For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. ⁵ Now ^(H)Moses was faithful in all ^[b]God’s house as ^(I)a servant, ^(J)for a testimony of those things ^(K)which were to be spoken later; ⁶ but Christ was faithful as ^(L)a Son over His house—^(M)whose house we are, ^(N)if we hold firmly to our ^(O)confidence and the boast of our ^[c](P)hope.