Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

99 A psalm of praise.

² Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.

³ Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴ Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name:

⁵ For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

⁴¹ The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.

⁴² And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,

⁴³ Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

⁴⁴ And the Lord said to Moses:

⁴⁵ Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,

⁴⁶ Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.

⁴⁷ When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:

⁴⁸ And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

⁴⁹ And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

⁵⁰ And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.

⁷ But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore, and watch in prayers.

⁸ But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

⁹ Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

¹⁰ As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

¹¹ If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it, as of the power, which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.