Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his holiness, and Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What came upon thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee? And thou O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶ Ye mountains, why didst ye skip like rams and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a reservoir of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

¹⁷ ¶ And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that God did not lead them through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt;

¹⁸ but God led the people round about through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ And Moses also took the bones of Joseph with him, who had made the sons of Israel swear, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away from here with you.

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

²¹ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light that they might walk by day and by night.

²² He never took away the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

¹¹ ¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, That we should love one another.

¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

¹⁴ ¶ We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love his brother abides in death.

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

¹⁶ In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.