Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm of David.

110 Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet.

² Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning [shall come] to thee the dew of thy youth.

⁴ Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the day of his anger.

⁶ He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill [all places] with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.

²² Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, but every daughter ye shall save alive.

2 And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.

² And the woman conceived, and bore a son. And she saw him that he was fair, and hid him three months.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge on the bank of the river.

⁴ And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him.

⁵ And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

⁶ And she opened [it], and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.

⁷ And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a wet-nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

⁸ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the damsel went and called the child's mother.

⁹ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.

¹⁰ And when the child was grown, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

²³ By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter;

²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;

²⁶ esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense.