Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 111
God’s Works and God’s Word
Opening Praise
1 Praise the Lord.[a]
I will thank the Lord with all my heart
in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.
God’s Works
2 Great are the deeds of the Lord.
They are studied by all who delight in them.
3 Glorious and majestic is his work,
and his righteousness stands forever.
4 He has set up a memorial to his wonders.
Gracious and compassionate is the Lord.
5 He gives food to those who fear him.
He remembers his covenant forever.
6 He has declared the power of his deeds to his people,
to give them the nations as their possession.
7 The works of his hands are truth and justice.
God’s Word
All his precepts are trustworthy,
8 steadfast forever and ever,
done in truth and uprightness.
9 He sent redemption for his people.
He commanded his covenant forever.
Holy and awesome is his name.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning[b] of wisdom.
All who do his precepts have good understanding.
Closing Praise
His praise stands forever.
Purification of Contaminated Houses
33 The Lord spoke these things to Moses and Aaron:
34 When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a contamination of mold[a] on a house in the land that you possess, 35 the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, “There seems to me to be some sort of contamination in my house.” 36 The priest shall order the house to be cleared before the priest comes to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house will be declared unclean. After that the priest shall go in to examine the house. 37 If, when he examines the contamination, the contamination on the walls of the house consists of depressions that are bright green or bright red and that appear deeper than the surface of the wall, 38 the priest shall come out of the house to the entrance of the house and quarantine the house for seven days. 39 On the seventh day the priest shall return to examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house, 40 the priest shall order that they rip out the stones with the contamination on them and throw them into an unclean place outside the town. 41 The house must be scraped all around the inside, and they must dump the mud that is scraped off in an unclean place outside the town. 42 They are to take other stones and bring them to replace those stones and other mud to plaster the house.
43 If the contamination breaks out again in the house after the stones have been ripped out and after the house has been scraped and replastered, 44 the priest shall go in to examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is a destructive[b] mold in the house. It is unclean. 45 The house shall be demolished and its stones and timber and all its mud are to be brought out to an unclean place outside the town. 46 Whoever enters the house at any time during its quarantine will be unclean until sunset. 47 Whoever sleeps in the house must wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48 If, however, the priest enters and sees that the contamination has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, the priest shall declare the house clean, because the contamination has been cleansed. 49 To purify the house, he shall take two birds, some cedar wood, some scarlet yarn, and some hyssop. 50 He shall slaughter one of the birds in a clay pot over water from a flowing source. 51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the water from a flowing source and sprinkle it on the house seven times. 52 When he has purified the house with the blood of the bird, the water from a flowing source, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn, 53 he shall release the live bird into the open country outside the town. In this way he shall make atonement for the house, so that it will be clean.
13 Hold fast to the pattern of sound words that you heard from me, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14 Through the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you.
Onesiphorus
15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times and was not ashamed of my chains. 17 On the contrary, after he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently for me and found me. 18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day. And you know very well how much he did when he served in Ephesus.
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