Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁰ ¶ The LORD will reward me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he shall recompense me.

²¹ Because I have kept the ways of the LORD and did not become wicked departing in apostasy from my God.

²² For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

²³ I was perfect before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁴ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

²⁵ With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with a perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

²⁶ with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself adversary.

²⁷ Therefore thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down high looks.

²⁸ For thou wilt light my fire: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹ ¶ For with thee I have scattered armies; and in my God I have overcome walled defenses.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

3 ¶ Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee that it may be well with thee?

² And now is not Boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

³ Therefore, thou shalt wash thyself and anoint thyself and put thy raiment upon thee and go down to the threshingfloor, but do not make thyself known unto the man until he shall have finished eating and drinking.

⁴ And it shall be when he lies down that thou shalt perceive the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in and uncover his feet and lie down there, and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.

⁵ And she said unto her, All that thou dost command me I will do.

⁶ ¶ And she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

⁷ And when Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap, and she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.

¹⁷ ¶ But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁸ until another king arose, who did not know Joseph.

¹⁹ The same dealt subtly with our kindred and mistreated our fathers so that they exposed their babies to death, to the end that the generation would cease.

²⁰ In which time Moses was born and was beautiful to God and was nourished in his father’s house three months;

²¹ and when he was put in danger, Pharaoh’s daughter took him in and nourished him as her own son.

²² And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in his words and deeds.

²³ And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel.

²⁴ And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and smote the Egyptian, avenging the oppressed;

²⁵ for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God was to give them saving health by his hand, but they had not understood.

²⁶ And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove and urged them to peace, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

²⁷ But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?

²⁸ Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?

²⁹ Then Moses fled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.