Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

121 I will lift up my eyes to the mountain, from where my help shall come.

² My help comes from the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to slip. He Who keeps you will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, He Who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The LORD is your Keeper. The LORD is your shadow at your right hand.

⁶ The Sun shall not strike you by day, nor the Moon by night.

⁷ The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He shall keep your soul.

⁸ The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in, from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David

¹⁴ ‘And this day shall be to you a remembrance. And you shall keep it a holy Feast to the LORD, throughout your generations. You shall keep it holy by an ordinance, forever.

¹⁵ ‘For seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread; and the first day, you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

¹⁶ ‘And on the first day there shall be a holy assembly. Also, on the seventh day there shall be a holy assembly for you. No work shall be done on them, except that which everyone must eat. That only may you do.

¹⁷ ‘You shall also keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For that same day, I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day, throughout your posterity, by an ordinance, forever.

¹⁸ ‘In the first month, from twilight on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall eat unleavened bread until twilight on the twenty-first day of the month.

¹⁹ ‘For seven days, no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from the Congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or born in the land.

²⁰ ‘You shall eat no leavened bread. In all your dwellings, you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

²¹ Then, Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Choose and take a lamb for each of your households; and kill the Passover.

²² “And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. And strike the lintel and the side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And let none of you go out at the door of the house until the morning.

²³ “For the LORD will pass by to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to plague you.

²⁴ “Therefore, you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and for your sons, forever.

²⁵ “And when you shall come into the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, then you shall keep this service.

²⁶ “And when your children ask you, ‘What service is this you keep?’

²⁷ “then you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, Who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and preserved our houses.’” Then the people bowed themselves and worshipped.

²⁸ So, the children of Israel went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. So did they.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

¹² And have your behavior be honorable among the Gentiles, so that those who speak against you as evil doers may, by your good works which they shall see, glorify God on the Day of visitation.

¹³ Therefore, submit yourselves to every institution of man, for the Lord’s sake; whether it is to the king (as superior),

¹⁴ or to governors (those sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do well).

¹⁵ For such is the will of God: that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

¹⁶ as free—yet not having freedom be a cloak for evil—but as servants of God.

¹⁷ Honor the whole brotherhood. Love brotherly fellowship. Fear God. Honor the King.