Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

23 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

² He makes me to rest in green pasture and leads me by the still waters.

³ He restores my soul and leads me in the paths of righteousness, for His Name’s sake.

⁴ Indeed, though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me in the sight of my adversaries. You anoint my head with oil; and my cup runs over.

⁶ Doubtless, kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I shall remain in the House of the LORD forever. A Psalm of David.

¹⁵ Now Pharaoh heard this matter and sought to kill Moses. Therefore, Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ And the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s sheep.

¹⁷ Then, the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses rose up and defended them and watered their sheep.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “Why have you come so soon today?”

¹⁹ And they said, “A man of Egypt delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew us enough water and watered the sheep.

²⁰ Then he said to his daughters, “And, where is he? Why have you left the man so? Call him, so that he may eat.”

²¹ And Moses agreed to dwell with the man, who gave his daughter, Zipporah, to Moses.

²² And she bore a son, whose name he called, Gershom. For he said, “I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

²³ Then, in process of time, the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed for the bondage and cried. And their cry for the bondage came up to God.

²⁴ Then God heard their moan; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

²⁵ So God looked upon the children of Israel. And God had respect to them.

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are a Possession; so that you would show forth the virtues of the One Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹⁰ In the past, you were not a people, yet are now the people of God, who in the past were not under mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

¹² And have your behavior be honorable among the Gentiles, so that those who speak against you as evil doers may, by your good works which they shall see, glorify God on the Day of visitation.