Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

ALEPH

¹ Blessed are those who are upright in their way and walk in the Law of the LORD.

² Blessed are those who keep His Testimonies and seek Him with their whole heart.

³ Surely, they work no iniquity, but walk in His ways.

⁴ You have commanded to keep Your Precepts diligently.

⁵ Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your Statutes!

⁶ Then I would not be confounded, with respect to all Your Commandments.

⁷ I will praise You with an upright heart, when I shall learn the Judgments of Your righteousness.

⁸ I will keep Your Statutes. Do not forsake me utterly.

30 “Now when all these things shall come upon you (the blessing or the curse which I have set before you) and you shall turn into your heart among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

² “and shall return to the LORD your God and obey His Voice in all that I command you this day (you and your children) with all your heart and with all your soul,

³ “then the LORD your God will cause your captives to return, and have compassion upon you, and will return to gather you out of all the people where the LORD your God has scattered you.

⁴ “Though you were cast to the utmost part of Heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you. And from there will He take you.

⁵ “And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed. And you shall possess it. And He will show you favor and will multiply you above your fathers.

⁶ “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, so that you may live.

⁷ “And the LORD your God will lay all these curses upon your enemies, and on those who hate you, and who persecute you.

⁸ “Return, therefore, and obey the Voice of the LORD, and do all His Commandments which I command you this day.

⁹ “And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of the land, for your wealth. For the LORD will turn again and rejoice over you, to do you good (as He rejoiced over your fathers)

15 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

² “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

³ But He answered and said to them, “And why do you transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition?

⁴ “For God has commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and mother. And the one who curses father or mother, let him die the death.’

⁵ “But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to father or mother, “By the gift that is offered by me,” you may have profit;

⁶ though he does not honor his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you have made the Commandment of God of no authority.

⁷ “O hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,

⁸ “‘This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with the lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

⁹ ‘But they worship Me in vain, teaching men’s precepts as doctrines.’”