The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible in One
Year - Day 34
Exodus Moses at the Burning Bush
3: Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the
priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb,
the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame
of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not
consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight,
and see why the bush is not burned up.” 4 When the Lord saw that he had turned
aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,
“Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your
feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 He said
further, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at
God.
7 Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people
who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters.
Indeed, I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them from
the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land,
a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 The cry
of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians
oppress them. 10 So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the
Israelites, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go
to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “I will be with
you; and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you
have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain.”
The Divine Name Revealed
13 But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say
to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What
is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I
am.”[a] He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent
me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites,
‘The Lord,[b] the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’:
This is my name forever,
and this my title for all generations.
16 Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘The
Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
has appeared to me, saying: I have given heed to you and to what has been done
to you in Egypt. 17 I declare that I will bring you up out of the misery of
Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and
honey.’ 18 They will listen to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel
shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, has met with us; let us now go a three days’ journey into the
wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ 19 I know, however,
that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty
hand.[c] 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders
that I will perform in it; after that he will let you go. 21 I will bring this
people into such favor with the Egyptians that, when you go, you will not go
empty-handed; 22 each woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman living in the
neighbor’s house for jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall
put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the
Egyptians.”
Moses’ Miraculous Power
4: Then Moses answered, “But suppose they do not believe me or
listen to me, but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2 The Lord said to
him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” 3 And he said, “Throw it
on the ground.” So he threw the staff on the ground, and it became a snake; and
Moses drew back from it. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand,
and seize it by the tail”—so he reached out his hand and grasped it, and it
became a staff in his hand— 5 “so that they may believe that the Lord, the God
of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
has appeared to you.”
6 Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your
cloak.” He put his hand into his cloak; and when he took it out, his hand was
leprous,[d] as white as snow. 7 Then God said, “Put your hand back into your
cloak”—so he put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was
restored like the rest of his body— 8 “If they will not believe you or heed the
first sign, they may believe the second sign. 9 If they will not believe even
these two signs or heed you, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour
it on the dry ground; and the water that you shall take from the Nile will
become blood on the dry ground.”
10 But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been
eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your
servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to
him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or
blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go, and I will be with your mouth and
teach you what you are to speak.” 13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send
someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he
said, “What of your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak
fluently; even now he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you his heart
will be glad. 15 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I
will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall
do. 16 He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth
for you, and you shall serve as God for him. 17 Take in your hand this staff,
with which you shall perform the signs.”
Moses Returns to Egypt
18 Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,
“Please let me go back to my kindred in Egypt and see whether they are still
living.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19 The Lord said to Moses in
Midian, “Go back to Egypt; for all those who were seeking your life are dead.”
20 So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went back to
the land of Egypt; and Moses carried the staff of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see
that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power;
but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you
shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son. 23 I
said to you, “Let my son go that he may worship me.” But you refused to let him
go; now I will kill your firstborn son.’”
24 On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord
met him and tried to kill him. 25 But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her
son’s foreskin, and touched Moses’[e] feet with it, and said, “Truly you are a
bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then she said, “A
bridegroom of blood by circumcision.”
27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses.” So he went; and he met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28
Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him, and all
the signs with which he had charged him. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and
assembled all the elders of the Israelites. 30 Aaron spoke all the words that
the Lord had spoken to Moses, and performed the signs in the sight of the
people. 31 The people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had given
heed to the Israelites and that he had seen their misery, they bowed down and
worshiped.
Footnotes:
a. Exodus 3:14 Or I am what I am or I will be what I will be
b. Exodus 3:15 The word “Lord” when spelled with capital letters
stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah,
“to be”
c. Exodus 3:19 Gk Vg: Heb no, not by a mighty hand
d. Exodus 4:6 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning
uncertain
e. Exodus 4:25 Heb his
Psalm 33: The Greatness and Goodness of God
1 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous.
Praise befits the
upright.
2 Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him
with the harp of ten strings.
3 Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully on the
strings, with loud shouts.
4 For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is
done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of
the steadfast love of the Lord.
6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and all their host by
the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
he put the deeps in
storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it
stood firm.
10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the
plans of the peoples.
11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has
chosen as his heritage.
13 The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all humankind.
14 From where he sits enthroned he watches
all the inhabitants of
the earth—
15 he who fashions the hearts of them all,
and observes all their
deeds.
16 A king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not
delivered by his great strength.
17 The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
and by its great might
it cannot save.
18 Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in
his steadfast love,
19 to deliver their soul from death,
and to keep them alive
in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and
shield.
21 Our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in
his holy name.
22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in
you.
Matthew Teaching about Divorce
19: When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee
and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him,
and he cured them there.
3 Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it
lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you
not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and
female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are
no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no
one separate.” 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a
certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” 8 He said to them, “It was
because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his
wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery.”[a]
10 His disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with
his wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 But he said to them, “Not everyone can
accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. 12 For there are
eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made
eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for
the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”
Jesus Blesses Little Children
13 Then little children were being brought to him in order that
he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those
who brought them; 14 but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and
do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven
belongs.” 15 And he laid his hands on them and went on his way.
Footnotes:
a. Matthew 19:9 Other ancient authorities read except on the
ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; others add at the end of
the verse and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery
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