Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
114 1 How the Israelites were delivered forth of Egypt, and of the wonderful miracles that God wrought at that time. Which put us in remembrance of God’s great mercy toward his Church, who when the course of nature faileth, preserveth his miraculously.
1 When (A)Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from the [a]barbarous people,
2 Judah was his [b]sanctification, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was turned back.
4 The [c]mountains leaped like rams, and the hills as lambs!
5 What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? O Jordan, why wast thou turned back?
6 Ye mountains why leaped ye like rams, and ye hills as lambs?
7 The [d]earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Which [e]turneth the rock into waterpools, and the flint into a fountain of water.
17 ¶ Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God carried them not by the way of the Philistines’ country, [a]though it were nearer: (for God said, Lest the people repent when they [b]see war, and turn again to Egypt).
18 But God made the people to go about by the way of the wilderness of the red sea: and the children of Israel went up [c]armed 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, saying, (A)God will surely visit you, and ye shall take my bones away hence with you.)
20 ¶ (B)So they took their journey from Succoth, and camped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness.
21 (C)And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a [d]cloud to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might go both by day and by night.
22 (D)He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
11 [a]For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that (A)we should love one another,
12 [b]Not as (B)[c]Cain which was of that wicked one, and slew his brother: [d]and wherefore slew he him? because his own works were evil, and his brother’s good.
13 Marvel not my brethren, though this world hate you.
14 [e]We know that we are [f]translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren: (C)he that loveth not his brother, abideth in death.
15 [g]Whosoever hateth his brother, is a manslayer: and ye know that no manslayer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16 (D)[h]Hereby have we perceived love, that he laid down his life for us: therefore we ought also to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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