Open Word

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Numbers 33:38-39

Verse 38. At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt. Verse 39. Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

PSALM

Psalm 119:41-48

May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25

Verse 1. These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, Verse 2. so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. Verse 3. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. Verse 4. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. Verse 5. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Verse 6. These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. Verse 7. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Verse 8. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Verse 9. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. Verse 20. In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” Verse 21. then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Verse 22. Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. Verse 23. But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. Verse 24. And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. Verse 25. And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

PSALM

Psalm 119:41-48

May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

SECOND READING

James 2:8-13

Verse 8. If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. Verse 9. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. Verse 10. Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. Verse 11. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Verse 12. Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom. Verse 13. For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.