Exodus 16

• 1. The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
• 2. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
• 3. The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death."
• 4. Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
• 5. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days."
• 6. So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt,
• 7. and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?"
• 8. Moses also said, "You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD."
• 9. Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire Israelite community, 'Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.'"
• 10. While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
• 11. The LORD said to Moses,
• 12. "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.'"
• 13. That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
• 14. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor.
• 15. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
• 16. This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.'"
• 17. The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.
• 18. And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed.
• 19. Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning."
• 20. However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
• 21. Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
• 22. On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much-two omers for each person-and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
• 23. He said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.'"
• 24. So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it.
• 25. "Eat it today," Moses said, "because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today.
• 26. Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any."
• 27. Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.
• 28. Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
• 29. Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day; no one is to go out."
• 30. So the people rested on the seventh day.
• 31. The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
• 32. Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.'"
• 33. So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come."
• 34. As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna in front of the Testimony, that it might be kept.
• 35. The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
• 36. (An omer is one tenth of an ephah.)

Luke 20

• 1. One day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him.
• 2. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?"
• 3. He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me,
• 4. John's baptism--was it from heaven, or from men?"
• 5. They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
• 6. But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
• 7. So they answered, "We don't know where it was from."
• 8. Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."
• 9. He went on to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.
• 10. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
• 11. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.
• 12. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
• 13. "Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.'
• 14. "But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
• 15. So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
• 16. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never be!"
• 17. Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone '?
• 18. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."
• 19. The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
• 20. Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.
• 21. So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
• 22. Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
• 23. He saw through their duplicity and said to them,
• 24. "Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?"
• 25. "Caesar's," they replied. He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
• 26. They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.
• 27. Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
• 28. "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother.
• 29. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
• 30. The second
• 31. and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
• 32. Finally, the woman died too.
• 33. Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"
• 34. Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
• 35. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
• 36. and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.
• 37. But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
• 38. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."
• 39. Some of the teachers of the law responded, "Well said, teacher!"
• 40. And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
• 41. Then Jesus said to them, "How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?
• 42. David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: "'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand
• 43. until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'
• 44. David calls him 'Lord.' How then can he be his son?"
• 45. While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,
• 46. "Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
• 47. They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely."

Job 35

• 1. Then Elihu said:
• 2. "Do you think this is just? You say, 'I will be cleared by God. '
• 3. Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
• 4. "I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
• 5. Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
• 6. If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
• 7. If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
• 8. Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
• 9. "Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
• 10. But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• 11. who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
• 12. He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
• 13. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
• 14. How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
• 15. and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
• 16. So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."

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