Easter
Monday in Easter
Monday, April 6, 2026
FIRST READING
Exodus 14:10-31
Verse 10. As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD. Verse 11. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Verse 12. Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” Verse 13. But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. Verse 14. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Verse 15. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. Verse 16. And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. Verse 17. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen. Verse 18. The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” Verse 19. And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them, Verse 20. so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other. Verse 21. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided, Verse 22. and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left. Verse 23. And the Egyptians chased after them— all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen— and followed them into the sea. Verse 24. At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. Verse 25. He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!” Verse 26. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” Verse 27. So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea. Verse 28. The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen — the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. Verse 29. But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left. Verse 30. That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore. Verse 31. When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
PSALM
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
SECOND READING
15:20-21
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SECOND READING
Colossians 3:5-11
Verse 5. Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Verse 6. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. Verse 7. When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. Verse 8. But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Verse 9. Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, Verse 10. and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Verse 11. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.