Open Word

FIRST READING

Exodus 16:27-35

Verse 27. Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything. Verse 28. Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions? Verse 29. Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.” Verse 30. So the people rested on the seventh day. Verse 31. Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. Verse 32. Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” Verse 33. So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.” Verse 34. And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses. Verse 35. The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

PSALM

Psalm 95

Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!

Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.

For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

SECOND READING

John 4:1-6

Verse 1. When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John Verse 2. (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples), Verse 3. He left Judea and returned to Galilee. Verse 4. Now He had to pass through Samaria. Verse 5. So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Verse 6. Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.