Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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Yahweh’s Chosen Place of Worship

12 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess ^(A)all the days you live on the ^[a]earth. ² You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(B)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ^3 (C)And you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their ^[b]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and ^(D)destroy their name from that place. ⁴ You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God. ^5 (E)But you shall seek Yahweh at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. ⁶ And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, ^(F)your tithes, the ^[c]contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ There also you and your households shall eat before Yahweh your God, and ^(G)be glad in all that you send forth your hand to do, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

⁸ “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, ^(H)every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; ⁹ for you have not as yet come to ^(I)the resting place and the ^(J)inheritance which Yahweh your God is giving you. ¹⁰ Now you will cross the Jordan and live in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to inherit. And ^(K)He will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security. ^11 (L)Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the ^[d]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh. ¹² And you shall ^(M)be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the ^(N)Levite who is within your gates, since ^(O)he has no portion or inheritance with you.

Words to the Jews

^41 (A)Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that ^(B)came down from heaven.” ⁴² They were saying, “^(C)Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(D)we know? How does He now say, ‘^(E)I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me ^(F)draws him; and I will ^(G)raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written ^(H)in the prophets, ‘^(I)And they shall all be ^(J)taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. ^46 (K)Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes ^(L)has eternal life. ^48 (M)I am the bread of life. ^49 (N)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread which ^(O)comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and ^(P)not die. ^51 (Q)I am the living bread that ^(R)came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, ^(S)he will live forever; and also the bread which I will give ^(T)for the life of the world is ^(U)My flesh.”