Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

105 Praise the LORD! Call upon His Name! Declare His works among the people!

² Sing to Him! Sing praise to Him! Talk of all His wondrous works!

³ Rejoice in His Holy Name! Let the heart of those who seek the LORD, rejoice!

⁴ Seek the LORD and His strength. Seek His face continually.

⁵ Remember His marvelous works that He has done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth

⁶ you seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob who are His Elect.

³⁷ He also brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was no one feeble among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad at their departing, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quails; and He filled them with the bread of Heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock and the water flowed out and ran like a river in the dry places.

⁴² For He remembered His Holy Promise to Abraham, His servant.

⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy and his chosen with gladness,

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the heathen. And they took the labors of the people in possession,

⁴⁵ so that they might keep His statutes and observe His Laws. Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD

16 Afterward, all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from Elim, and came to the wilderness of Sin, (which is between Elim and Sinai) on the fifteenth day of the second month, after their departure from the land of Egypt.

² And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, in the wilderness.

³ For the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate bread, our bellies full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole company with famine.”

⁴ Then, the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will cause bread to rain from Heaven to you. And the people shall go out and gather that which is sufficient for each day, so that I may test them (whether they will walk in My law or not).

⁵ “But, on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they shall bring home; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

⁶ Then, Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that the LORD brought you out of the land of Egypt.

⁷ “And in the morning, you shall see the Glory of the LORD. For He has heard your complaints against the LORD. And what are we, that you have murmured against us?”

⁸ Again, Moses said, “At evening, the LORD shall give you meat to eat, and in the morning your fill of bread. For the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against Him. For what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

⁹ And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the Congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Draw near before the LORD. For He has heard your murmurings.’”

¹⁰ Now, as Aaron spoke to the whole Congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness. And behold, the Glory of the LORD appeared in a cloud.

¹¹ (For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

¹² “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Therefore, tell them and say, ‘At evening you shall eat meat; and in the morning you shall be filled with bread.’ And you shall know that I am the LORD your God).

¹³ And so, at evening, the quails came and covered the camp. And in the morning, the dew lay all around the camp.

¹⁴ And when the dew that had fallen had lifted, behold, a small round flakey thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the frost upon the earth.

¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

¹⁶ “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: Every man gather from it according to his need (an omer per man, according to the number of your people). Every man shall take for those who are in his tent.”

¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

¹⁸ And when they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much, had nothing left over. And he who had gathered little, had no lack. So, every man gathered according to his eating.

¹⁹ Then Moses said to them, “Let no man save it until morning.”

²⁰ Nevertheless, they did not obey Moses. But some of them saved it until morning. And it was full of worms and stank. Therefore, Moses was angry with them.

²¹ And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. For when the heat of the Sun came, it melted.

⁵ Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Do you not know yourselves how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disqualified?

⁶ But I trust that you shall know that we are not disqualified.

⁷ Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should seem approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we may be disqualified.

⁸ For we cannot do anything against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹ For we are glad when we are weak, and you are strong. For this also we pray: even your perfecting.

¹⁰ Therefore, I write these things while being absent (so that when I am present, I should not use sharpness) according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.