Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

114 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

⁵ What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?

⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?

⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the +God of Jacob,

⁸ Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, That the people may not repent when they see conflict, and return to Egypt.

¹⁸ And God led the people about, the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went arrayed out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had made the children of Israel swear an oath, saying, God will be sure to visit you; then ye shall carry my bones with you hence.

²⁰ And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, at the end of the wilderness.

²¹ And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them [in] the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night.

²² The pillar of the cloud did not remove [from] before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.

¹¹ For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

¹² not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

¹³ Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

¹⁴ *We* know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.

¹⁵ Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶ Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.