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.

31 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

² Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda,

³ And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work.

⁴ To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,

⁵ Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.

⁶ And I have given him for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skillful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,

⁷ The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,

⁸ And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,

⁹ And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,

¹⁰ The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office about the sacred things:

¹¹ The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.

5 The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake, but voluntarily:

³ Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

⁴ And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

⁵ In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.