Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

114 When Israel went out of Egypt, and the House of Jacob from the barbarous people,

² Judah was His sanctification, and Israel His dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled. Jordan was turned back.

⁴ The mountains leaped like rams, and the hills as lambs!

⁵ What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, why were you turned back?

⁶ You mountains, why did you leap like rams, and you hills as lambs?

⁷ The Earth trembled at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ Who turns the rock into standing water, and the flint into a fountain of water.

¹⁷ Now, when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not carry them by the way of the Philistines’ country, though it were nearer. (For God said, ‘Lest the people repent when they see war, and turn again to Egypt’).

¹⁸ But God made the people go by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in battle array, out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, ‘God will surely visit you. And you shall take my bones with you, away from here.’

²⁰ So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.

²¹ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they might go both by day and by night.

²² He did not take away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

¹¹ For this is the message that you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another;

¹² not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil and his brother’s good.

¹³ Do not marvel, my brothers, though this world hates you.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love his brother remains in death.

¹⁵ Whoever hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶ By this we have perceived love: that He laid down His life for us. Therefore, we also ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.