Saturday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols. ” 2Verse 2. So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 3Verse 3. Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.” 4Verse 4. For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol. 5Verse 5. Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

8Verse 8. Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. 9Verse 9. “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.” 10Verse 10. And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you. 11Verse 11. Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 12Verse 12. Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst. 13Verse 13. Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles. 14Verse 14. For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15Verse 15. Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. 16Verse 16. And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same. 17Verse 17. You shall make no molten gods for yourselves. 18Verse 18. You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. 19Verse 19. The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep. 20Verse 20. You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed. 21Verse 21. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest. 22Verse 22. And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23Verse 23. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 24Verse 24. For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God. 25Verse 25. Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning. 26Verse 26. Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” 27Verse 27. The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28Verse 28. So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant — the Ten Commandments.