Friday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Exodus 14:1-18

Verse 1. Then the LORD said to Moses, Verse 2. “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon. Verse 3. For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’ Verse 4. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did. Verse 5. When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.” Verse 6. So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him. Verse 7. He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. Verse 8. And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly. Verse 9. The Egyptians— all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops— pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon. 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.”

PSALM

Psalm 114

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Genesis 41:53-42:17

Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.

PSALM

Psalm 103:8-13

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

SECOND READING

Acts 7:9-16

Verse 9. Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him Verse 10. and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household. Verse 11. Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food. Verse 12. When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit. Verse 13. On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh. Verse 14. Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all. Verse 15. So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died. Verse 16. Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.