Friday in Lent

9Verse 9. Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’” 10Verse 10. And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared. 11Verse 11. Then the LORD said to Moses, 12Verse 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.’” 13Verse 13. That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14Verse 14. When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. 15Verse 15. When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. 16Verse 16. This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’” 17Verse 17. So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less. 18Verse 18. When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat. 19Verse 19. Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” 20Verse 20. But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. 21Verse 21. Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

11Verse 11. Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands) — 12Verse 12. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13Verse 13. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. 14Verse 14. For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility 15Verse 15. by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace 16Verse 16. and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility. 17Verse 17. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18Verse 18. For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19Verse 19. Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, 20Verse 20. built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. 21Verse 21. In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22Verse 22. And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.