Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Blessedness of the Fear of the Lord.

A Song of Ascents.

⁴ Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the ^[a]Red Sea, to ^(A)go around the land of Edom; and the ^[b]people became impatient because of the journey. ⁵ The people spoke against God and Moses, “^(B)Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no ^[c]food and no water, and ^[d](C)we loathe this miserable food.”

The Bronze Serpent

^6 (D)The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and ^(E)they bit the people, so that ^(F)many people of Israel died. ^7 (G)So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; ^(H)intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. ⁸ Then the Lord said to Moses, “^[e]Make a ^(I)fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” ⁹ And Moses made a ^(J)bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

Jesus Our High Priest

3 Therefore, ^(A)holy brethren, partakers of a ^(B)heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^(C)the Apostle and ^(D)High Priest of our ^(E)confession; ^2 [a]He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as ^(F)Moses also was in all His house. ^3 (G)For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. ⁵ Now ^(H)Moses was faithful in all His house as ^(I)a servant, ^(J)for a testimony of those things ^(K)which were to be spoken later; ⁶ but Christ was faithful as ^(L)a Son over His house—^(M)whose house we are, ^(N)if we hold fast our ^(O)confidence and the boast of our ^(P)hope firm until the end.