Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Worship and Warning
95 Come, let’s shout joyfully to the Lord,
shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!(A)
2 Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving;
let’s shout triumphantly to him in song.(B)
3 For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.(C)
4 The depths of the earth are in his hand,
and the mountain peaks are his.(D)
5 The sea is his; he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.(E)
6 Come, let’s worship and bow down;
let’s kneel before the Lord our Maker.(F)
7 For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep under his care.[a](G)
Today, if you hear his voice:(H)
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness(I)
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.(J)
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know my ways.’(K)
11 So I swore in my anger,
‘They will not enter my rest.’(L)
27 Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will you[a] refuse to keep my commands(A) and instructions? 29 Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.’ 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The house of Israel named the substance manna.[b](B) It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded: “Two litres[c] of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.” ’
33 Moses told Aaron, ‘Take a container and put two litres[d] of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved throughout your generations.’ 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony(C) to be preserved.
35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.(D)
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
4 When Jesus[a] learned that the Pharisees(A) had heard he was making(B) and baptising more disciples than John(C) 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptising, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea(D) and went again to Galilee.(E) 4 He had to travel through Samaria;(F) 5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[b] that Jacob(G) had given his son Joseph.(H) 6 Jacob’s well(I) was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.[c]
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