Monday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up. 2Verse 2. And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?” 3Verse 3. So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said. 4Verse 4. This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. 5Verse 5. Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?” 6Verse 6. So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

1Verse 1. Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2Verse 2. After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her, 3Verse 3. along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.” 4Verse 4. The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.” 5Verse 5. Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God. 6Verse 6. He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.” 7Verse 7. So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent. 8Verse 8. Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. 9Verse 9. And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians. 10Verse 10. Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians. 11Verse 11. Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.” 12Verse 12. Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.