Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁰ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the pureness of my hand, He recompensed me,

²¹ because I kept the ways of the LORD and did not do wickedly against my God.

²² For all His laws were before me. And I did not cast away His Commandments from me.

²³ I was also upright with him and have kept myself from my wickedness.

²⁴ Therefore, the LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands in His sight.

²⁵ With the godly, You will show Yourself godly. With the upright man, You will show Yourself upright.

²⁶ With the pure, You will show Yourself pure. And with the froward, You will show Yourself froward.

²⁷ Thus, You will save the poor people, and will cast down proud looks.

²⁸ Surely, You will light my candle. The LORD, my God, will lighten my darkness.

²⁹ For You I have broken through an army. And by my God I have leapt over a wall.

³⁰ The way of God is incorrupt. The Word of the LORD is tried in the fire. He is a shield to those who trust in Him.

3 Afterward, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you; so that you may prosper?

² “Now, is Boaz (with whose maids you were) not also our kinsman? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the floor.

³ “Therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself and put your clothes on and get down to the floor. Do not let the man know of you until he has finished eating and drinking.

⁴ “And when he falls asleep, mark the place where he lays down; and go and uncover the place of his feet and lay down there. And he shall tell you what you shall do.”

⁵ And she answered her, “All that you ask of me, I will do.”

⁶ So she went down to the floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law asked of her.

⁷ And when Boaz had finished eating and drinking, and cheered his heart, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn. And she came, softly, and uncovered the place of his feet and lay down.

¹⁷ “But when the time of the promise which God had sworn to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt.

¹⁸ “Until another King arose who did not know Joseph.

¹⁹ “The same dealt craftily with our kindred, and mistreated our fathers, and made them abandon their young children, so that they would not live.

²⁰ “At the same time, Moses was born, and was acceptable to God. He was nursed in his father’s house for three months.

²¹ “And when he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.

²² “And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds.

²³ “Now when he was fully forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

²⁴ “And when he saw one of them being wronged, he defended him, and avenged the one who had been harmed, and killed the Egyptian.

²⁵ “For he assumed that his brothers would have understood that God, by His hand, would give them deliverance. But they did not understand that.

²⁶ “And the next day, he showed himself to them as they fought, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’

²⁷ “But the one who had wronged his neighbor thrust him away, saying, ‘Who made you a prince and a judge over us?

²⁸ ‘Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’

²⁹ “Then Moses fled at those words, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.