Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ In thee, O LORD, have I waited; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in thy righteousness.

² Incline thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily; be thou my strong rock, for a house of defence to save me.

³ For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake thou shalt lead me and guide me.

⁴ Thou shalt pull me out of the net that they have laid in secret for me; for thou art my strength.

⁵ Into thy hand shall I commit my spirit; thou shalt ransom me, O LORD God of truth.

¹⁵ My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those that persecute me.

¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy slave; save me for thy mercies’ sake.

3 ¶ Now as Moses shepherded the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

² And the Angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

³ Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great vision, why the bush is not burnt.

⁴ And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

⁵ And he said, Do not come near; take off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place upon which thou dost stand is holy ground.

⁶ Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

⁷ ¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

⁸ and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and broad land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the places of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

⁹ Therefore, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has now come before me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁰ Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.

¹¹ ¶ Then Moses said unto God, Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the sons of Israel out of Egypt?

¹² And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

7 ¶ Then the prince of the priests said, Are these things so?

² And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

³ and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and come into the land which I shall show thee.

⁴ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and dwelt in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, in which ye now dwell.

⁵ And he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

⁶ And God spoke thus, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into slavery and mistreat them four hundred years.

⁷ And the Gentiles unto whom they shall be in slavery I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹ Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.

¹² But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent our fathers the first time.

¹³ And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.

¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob unto him and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵ So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

¹⁶ who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.