Tuesday, 09 April

1.   And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2.   "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. 3.   ‘Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it ; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. 4.   ‘These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. 5.   ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover. 6.   ‘And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7.   ‘On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. 8.   ‘But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it .’" 9.   And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10.   "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11.   ‘He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12.   ‘And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD. 13.   ‘Its grain offering shall be two–tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one–fourth of a hin. 14.   ‘You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15.   ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16.   ‘Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD. 17.   ‘You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two–tenths of an ephah . They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the LORD. 18.   ‘And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD. 19.   ‘Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering. 20.   ‘The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21.   ‘And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22.   ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.’" 23.   Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24.   "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath– rest , a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25.   ‘You shall do no customary work on it ; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’" 26.   And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 27.   "Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. 28.   "And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29.   "For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. 30.   "And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31.   "You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32.   "It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath." 33.   Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34.   "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD. 35.   ‘On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it . 36.   ‘ For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it . 37.   ‘These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day–– 38.   ‘besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD. 39.   ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath– rest , and on the eighth day a sabbath– rest . 40.   ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. 41.   ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42.   ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43.   ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’" 44.   So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

1.   Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2.   Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3.   For the LORD is the great God, And the great King above all gods. 4.   In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. 5.   The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land . 6.   Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. 7.   For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8.   "Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9.   When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10.   For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ 11.   So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’"

1.   Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth. 2.   Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. 3.   Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. 4.   For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. 5.   For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. 6.   Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. 7.   Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples, Give to the LORD glory and strength. 8.   Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts. 9.   Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. 10.   Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously." 11.   Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; 12.   Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice 13.   before the LORD. (96:13) For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

1.   The LORD reigns; Let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad! 2.   Clouds and darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. 3.   A fire goes before Him, And burns up His enemies round about. 4.   His lightnings light the world; The earth sees and trembles. 5.   The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6.   The heavens declare His righteousness, And all the peoples see His glory. 7.   Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods. 8.   Zion hears and is glad, And the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your judgments, O LORD. 9.   For You, LORD, are most high above all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods. 10.   You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. 11.   Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart. 12.   Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.

1.   Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2.   For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3.   So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4.   Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another––to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5.   For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6.   But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 7.   What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." 8.   But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9.   I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10.   And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11.   For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me . 12.   Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13.   Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14.   For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15.   For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16.   If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17.   But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18.   For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19.   For the good that I will to do , I do not do; but the evil I will not to do , that I practice. 20.   Now if I do what I will not to do , it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21.   I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22.   For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23.   But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24.   O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25.   I thank God––through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.