Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

29Verse 29. Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock. 30Verse 30. During the night Pharaoh got up — he and all his officials and all the Egyptians — and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead. 31Verse 31. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. 32Verse 32. Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.” 33Verse 33. And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!” 34Verse 34. So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing. 35Verse 35. Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing. 36Verse 36. And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians. 37Verse 37. The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. 38Verse 38. And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39Verse 39. Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves. 40Verse 40. Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years. 41Verse 41. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt. 42Verse 42. Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

2Verse 2. If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant 3Verse 3. and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven— which I have forbidden— 4Verse 4. and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel, 5Verse 5. you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death. 6Verse 6. On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness. 7Verse 7. The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you. 8Verse 8. If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. 9Verse 9. You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. 10Verse 10. You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you, 11Verse 11. according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you. 12Verse 12. But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13Verse 13. Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.