Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The Lord Reigns

Moses' Intercession

¹² Moses said to the Lord, “See, ^(A)you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ^(B)‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ ¹³ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please ^(C)show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is ^(D)your people.” ¹⁴ And he said, ^(E)“My presence will go with you, and ^(F)I will give you rest.” ¹⁵ And he said to him, ^(G)“If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. ¹⁶ For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? ^(H)Is it not in your going with us, ^(I)so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, ^(J)for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Jesus Is Coming

⁶ And he said to me, ^(A)“These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of ^(B)the spirits of the prophets, ^(C)has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”

⁷ “And behold, ^(D)I am coming soon. ^(E)Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

⁸ I, ^(F)John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, ^(G)I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, ^9 (H)but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those ^(I)who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”