Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

110 A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

² The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people [are] free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

⁴ Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou [art] a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'

⁵ The Lord on thy right hand smote kings In the day of His anger.

⁶ He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

⁷ From a brook in the way he drinketh, Therefore he doth lift up the head!

²² and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

2 And there goeth a man of the house of Levi, and he taketh the daughter of Levi,

² and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he [is] fair, and she hideth him three months,

³ and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;

⁴ and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.

⁵ And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,

⁶ and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, `This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.'

⁷ And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, `Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

⁸ and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Go;' and the virgin goeth, and calleth the mother of the lad,

⁹ and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Take this lad away, and suckle him for me, and I -- I give thy hire;' and the woman taketh the lad, and suckleth him.

¹⁰ And the lad groweth, and she bringeth him in to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calleth his name Moses, and saith, `Because -- from the water I have drawn him.'

²³ By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

²⁴ by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

²⁵ having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;