Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

12 And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

² “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

³ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month they shall take for themselves every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house.

⁴ And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

⁶ And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it.

⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire; and with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

⁹ Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire — his head with his legs and with the viscera thereof.

¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

¹¹ And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is the Lord’S Passover.

¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ “‘And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

149 Praise ye the Lord! Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of saints!

² Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.

⁴ For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.

⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon their beds.

⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand

⁷ to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

⁸ to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

⁹ to execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all His saints. Praise ye the Lord!

⁸ Owe no man anything, but to love one another, for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

⁹ For this, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” “Thou shalt not kill,” “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not bear false witness,” “Thou shalt not covet,” and if there be any other commandment, all are briefly comprehended in this saying, namely: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

¹⁰ Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

¹² The night is far spent; the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

¹³ Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.

¹⁵ “Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

¹⁶ But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that ‘in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’

¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church; but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.

¹⁸ Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven; and so whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.

¹⁹ “Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth concerning anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in Heaven.

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.”