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Tuesday, 21st March 2017 --- 12 Baramhat 1733



Matins


Numbers 10 : 35 - end Numbers 11 : 1 - 34 Proverbs 3 : 19 - end Proverbs 4 : 1 - 9 Isaiah 40 : 1 - 8 Job 25 : 1 - 6 Jobs 26 : 1 - 14

Numbers 10 : 35 - end

Chapter 10

35So it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said: "Rise up, O LORD! Let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You."
36And when it rested, he said: "Return, O LORD, To the many thousands of Israel."


Numbers 11 : 1 - 34

Chapter 11

1Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.
2Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.
3So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
4Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
5We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
6but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!"
7Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
8The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.
9And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.
11So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?
12Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, "Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fathers?
13Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, "Give us meat, that we may eat.'
14I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
15If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness!"
16So the LORD said to Moses: "Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.
18Then you shall say to the people, "Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
19You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?'
21And Moses said, "The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, "I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'
22Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?"
23And the LORD said to Moses, "Has the LORD's arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not."
24So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.
25Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again.
26But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp.
27And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
28So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, "Moses my lord, forbid them!"
29Then Moses said to him, "Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!"
30And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
32And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
34So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.


Proverbs 3 : 19 - end

Chapter 3

19The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens;
20By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And clouds drop down the dew.
21My son, let them not depart from your eyes--Keep sound wisdom and discretion;
22So they will be life to your soul And grace to your neck.
23Then you will walk safely in your way, And your foot will not stumble.
24When you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.
25Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes;
26For the LORD will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
27Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do so.
28Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it," When you have it with you.
29Do not devise evil against your neighbor, For he dwells by you for safety's sake.
30Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
31Do not envy the oppressor, And choose none of his ways;
32For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD, But His secret counsel is with the upright.
33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the just.
34Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.
35The wise shall inherit glory, But shame shall be the legacy of fools.


Proverbs 4 : 1 - 9

Chapter 4

1Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding;
2For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.
3When I was my father's son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother,
4He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live.
5Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you.
7Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
8Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace her.
9She will place on your head an ornament of grace; A crown of glory she will deliver to you."


Isaiah 40 : 1 - 8

Chapter 40

1"Comfort, yes, comfort My people!" Says your God.
2"Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins."
3The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.
4Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth;
5The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
6The voice said, "Cry out!" And he said, "What shall I cry?All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
7The grass withers, the flower fades, Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.
8The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."


Job 25 : 1 - 6

Chapter 25

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2"Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
3Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?
4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?
5If even the moon does not shine, And the stars are not pure in His sight,
6How much less man, who is a maggot, And a son of man, who is a worm?"


Jobs 26 : 1 - 14





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