Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
Numbers 4:1—6:27
1The
Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2“Take a census
of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and
their fathers’ houses, 3from thirty years old up to
fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent
of meeting. 4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in
the tent of meeting: the most holy things. 5When the camp
is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil
of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it. 6Then
they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that
a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. 7And over
the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of
blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and
the flagons for the drink offering; the regular show bread also shall
be on it. 8Then they shall spread over them a cloth of
scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put
in its poles. 9And they shall take a cloth of blue and
cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its
trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied. 10And
they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and
put it on the carrying frame. 11And over the golden altar
they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of
goatskin, and shall put in its poles. 12And they shall
take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary
and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of
goatskin and put them on the carrying frame. 13And they
shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth
over it. 14And they shall put on it all the utensils of
the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the
forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar;
and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in
its poles. 15And when Aaron and his sons have finished
covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as
the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry
these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These
are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to
carry.
16“And
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for
the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the
anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all
that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels.”
17The
Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 18“Let not the
tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the
Levites, 19but deal thus with them, that they may live and
not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his
sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,
20but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even
for a moment, lest they die.”
21The
Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 22“Take a census of the
sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses and by their clans.
23From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall
list them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tent of
meeting. 24This is the service of the clans of the
Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens: 25they shall
carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its
covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the
screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting 26and the
hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of
the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their
cords and all the equipment for their service. And they shall do all
that needs to be done with regard to them. 27All the
service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of
Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that
they have to do. And you shall assign to their charge all that they
are to carry. 28This is the service of the clans of the
sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty
is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
29“As
for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their
fathers’ houses. 30From thirty years old up to fifty
years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do
the service of the tent of meeting. 31And this is what
they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent
of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and
bases, 32and the pillars around the court with their
bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their
accessories. And you shall list by name the objects that they are
required to carry. 33This is the service of the clans of
the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of
meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
34And
Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of
the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers’ houses, 35from
thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on
duty, for service in the tent of meeting; 36and those
listed by clans were 2,750. 37This was the list of the
clans of the Kohathites, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom
Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the Lord by
Moses.
38Those
listed of the sons of Gershon, by their clans and their fathers’
houses, 39from thirty years old up to fifty years old,
everyone who could come on duty for service in the tent of meeting—
40those listed by their clans and their fathers’ houses
were 2,630. 41This was the list of the clans of the sons
of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and
Aaron listed according to the commandment of the Lord.
42Those
listed of the clans of the sons of Merari, by their clans and their
fathers’ houses, 43from thirty years old up to fifty
years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent
of meeting— 44those listed by clans were 3,200. 45This
was the list of the clans of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron
listed according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.
46All
those who were listed of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the
chiefs of Israel listed, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,
47from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone
who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of
bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, 48those listed
were 8,580. 49According to the commandment of the Lord
through Moses they were listed, each one with his task of serving or
carrying. Thus they were listed by him, as the Lord commanded Moses.
1The
Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Command the people of
Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a
discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.
3You shall put out both male and female, putting them
outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst
of which I dwell.” 4And the people of Israel did so, and
put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the people
of Israel did.
5And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6“Speak to the people
of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people
commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person realizes his
guilt, 7he shall confess his sin that he has committed.
And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to
it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong. 8But if
the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the
wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest,
in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for
him. 9And every contribution, all the holy donations of
the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.
10Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone
gives to the priest shall be his.”
11And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12“Speak to the people
of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,
13if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from
the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled
herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken
in the act, 14and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him
and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the
spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife,
though she has not defiled herself, 15then the man shall
bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her,
a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and
put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a
grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16“And
the priest shall bring her near and set her before the Lord. 17And
the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take
some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it
into the water. 18And the priest shall set the woman
before the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place
in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain
offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water
of bitterness that brings the curse. 19Then the priest
shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you,
and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under
your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness
that brings the curse. 20But if you have gone astray,
though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have
defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with
you, 21then’ (let the priest make the woman take the
oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the Lord make you a curse
and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh fall
away and your body swell. 22May this water that brings the
curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh
fall away.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23“Then
the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into
the water of bitterness. 24And he shall make the woman
drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water
that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.
25And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy
out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before
the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26And the priest shall
take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and
burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the
water. 27And when he has made her drink the water, then,
if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the
water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter
pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and
the woman shall become a curse among her people. 28But if
the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be
free and shall conceive children.
29“This
is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her
husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 30or
when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his
wife. Then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest
shall carry out for her all this law. 31The man shall be
free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
1And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people
of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a
special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,
3he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He
shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not
drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4All
the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by
the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
5“All
the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head.
Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the
Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head
grow long.
6“All
the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a
dead body. 7Not even for his father or for his mother, for
brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean,
because his separation to God is on his head. 8All the
days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
9“And
if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his
consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his
cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10On the
eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the
priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 11and the
priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt
offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of
the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day 12and
separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and bring
a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period
shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
13“And
this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has
been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of
meeting, 14and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one
male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one
ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram
without blemish as a peace offering, 15and a basket of
unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink
offerings. 16And the priest shall bring them before the
Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, 17and
he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord,
with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its
grain offering and its drink offering. 18And the Nazirite
shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of
meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it
on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19And
the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and
one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and
shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the
hair of his consecration, 20and the priest shall wave them
for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the
priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is
contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21“This
is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the Lord
above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with
the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the
Nazirite.”
22The
Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Speak to Aaron and his
sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall
say to them,
24The
Lord bless you and keep you;
25the
Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26the
Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
27So
shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless
them.”
Collect
Almighty
and everlasting God, whose infinite power alone does great wonders,
send down on Your ministers and on the congregations committed to
their care the healthful spirit of Your grace, and that they may
truly please You, pour on them the dew of Your continual blessing;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
922 Go,
My Children, with My Blessing Music Video
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Apostles'
Creed
C I
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker
of heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born
of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was
crucified, died and was buried.
He
descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He
ascended into heaven
and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From
thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
holy Christian Church,
the
communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the
resurrection of the body,
and
the life T everlasting.
Amen.
Holy
Baptism - Fourth
What
does such baptizing with water indicate?
It
indicates that the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and
repentance be drowned and die with all sins and evil desires, and
that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in
righteousness and purity forever.
Where
is this written?
St.
Paul writes in Romans, chapter six: "We were therefore buried
with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was
raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live
a new life." (Romans 6:4)
Lord's
Prayer
C Our
Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Benediction
(Aaronic)
P The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The
Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The
Lord look upon you with favor and T give
you peace.
C Amen.
Acknowledgments
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