Thursday in Season after Pentecost

43Verse 43. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it. 44Verse 44. But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him. 45Verse 45. A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover. 46Verse 46. It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones. 47Verse 47. The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it. 48Verse 48. If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it. 49Verse 49. The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

12Verse 12. But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” 13Verse 13. Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. 14Verse 14. Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry? 15Verse 15. Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. 16Verse 16. They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. 17Verse 17. I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”