Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Mem.

³¹ The house of Israel called the bread manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like flat pastry (wafers) made with honey. ³² Then Moses said, “This is the word which the Lord commands, ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” ³³ So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.” ³⁴ As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron [eventually] placed it in the presence of the ^[a]Testimony, to be kept.^{(A) 35} The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Greetings and Love Expressed

16 Now I introduce and commend to you our sister ^[a]Phoebe, a deaconess (servant) of the church at ^[b]Cenchrea, ² that you may receive her in the Lord [with love and hospitality], as ^[c]God’s people ought to receive one another. And that you may help her in whatever matter she may require assistance from you, for she has been a helper of many, including myself.

³ Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who risked their own necks [endangering their very lives] for my life. To them not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ⁵ Also greet the church that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor]. ⁶ Greet Mary, who has worked so hard for you. ⁷ Greet Andronicus and ^[d]Junias, my kinsmen and [once] my fellow prisoners, who are held in high esteem ^[e]in the estimation of the apostles, and who were [believers] in Christ before me. ⁸ Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. ¹⁰ Greet Apelles, the one tested and approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of ^[f]Aristobulus. ¹¹ Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. ¹² Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. ¹³ Greet Rufus, an eminent and choice man in the Lord, also his mother [who has been] a mother to me as well. ¹⁴ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them. ¹⁵ Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all ^[g]God’s people who are with them. ¹⁶ Greet one another with a ^[h]holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.