Tuesday 12 March 2024 DAILY LECTIONARY

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Tuesday 12 March 2024 
DAILY LECTIONARY

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Genesis 49:29-50:14

Then he charged them, saying to them, ‘I am about to be gathered to
my people. Bury me with my ancestors—in the cave in the field of
Ephron the Hittite, in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre,
in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron
the Hittite as a burial site. There Abraham and his wife Sarah were
buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I
buried Leah— the field and the cave that is in it were purchased
from the Hittites.’ When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew
up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his
people.

Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and
kissed him. Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm
his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel; they spent forty days
in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the
Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the
household of Pharaoh, ‘If now I have found favour with you, please
speak to Pharaoh as follows: My father made me swear an oath; he said,
“I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the
land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore let me go
up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.’ Pharaoh
answered, ‘Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to
do.’

 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders
of the land of Egypt, as well as all the household of Joseph, his
brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their
flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. Both chariots
and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. When
they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he
observed a time of mourning for his father for seven days. When the
Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the
threshing-floor of Atad, they said, ‘This is a grievous mourning on
the part of the Egyptians.’ Therefore the place was named
Abel-mizraim;* it is beyond the Jordan. Thus his sons did for him as
he had instructed them. They carried him to the land of Canaan and
buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near
Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his
brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
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1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when
you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, to
begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are
divisions among you; and to some extent I believe it. Indeed, there
have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who
among you are genuine. When you come together, it is not really to eat
the Lord’s supper. For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes
ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes
drunk. What! Do you not have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show
contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing?
What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do
not commend you!
 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the
Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and
when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body
that is for* you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he
took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new
covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
remembrance of me.’ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the
cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in
an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the
Lord. Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of
the cup. For all who eat and drink* without discerning the body,* eat
and drink judgement against themselves. For this reason many of you
are weak and ill, and some have died.* But if we judged ourselves, we
would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are
disciplined* so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

 So then, my brothers and sisters,* when you come together to eat,
wait for one another. If you are hungry, eat at home, so that when you
come together, it will not be for your condemnation. About the other
things I will give instructions when I come.
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Mark 8:1-10

In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to
eat, he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I have compassion
for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and
have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they
will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great
distance.’ His disciples replied, ‘How can one feed these people
with bread here in the desert?’ He asked them, ‘How many loaves do
you have?’ They said, ‘Seven.’ Then he ordered the crowd to sit
down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving
thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and
they distributed them to the crowd. They had also a few small fish;
and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be
distributed. They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken
pieces left over, seven baskets full. Now there were about four
thousand people. And he sent them away. And immediately he got into
the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
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Morning Psalms: Psalm 97, 99

Psalm 97

In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to
eat, he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I have compassion
for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and
have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they
will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great
distance.’ His disciples replied, ‘How can one feed these people
with bread here in the desert?’ He asked them, ‘How many loaves do
you have?’ They said, ‘Seven.’ Then he ordered the crowd to sit
down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving
thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and
they distributed them to the crowd. They had also a few small fish;
and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be
distributed. They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken
pieces left over, seven baskets full. Now there were about four
thousand people. And he sent them away. And immediately he got into
the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

Psalm 99

The Lord is king; let the peoples tremble!
   He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! 
The Lord is great in Zion;
   he is exalted over all the peoples. 
Let them praise your great and awesome name.
   Holy is he! 
Mighty King,* lover of justice,
   you have established equity;
you have executed justice
   and righteousness in Jacob. 
Extol the Lord our God;
   worship at his footstool.
   Holy is he! 

Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
   Samuel also was among those who called on his name.
   They cried to the Lord, and he answered them. 
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
   they kept his decrees,
   and the statutes that he gave them. 

O Lord our God, you answered them;
   you were a forgiving God to them,
   but an avenger of their wrongdoings. 
Extol the Lord our God,
   and worship at his holy mountain;
   for the Lord our God is holy.
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Evening Psalms: Psalm 94

Psalm 94

O Lord, you God of vengeance,
   you God of vengeance, shine forth! 
Rise up, O judge of the earth;
   give to the proud what they deserve! 
O Lord, how long shall the wicked,
   how long shall the wicked exult? 

They pour out their arrogant words;
   all the evildoers boast. 
They crush your people, O Lord,
   and afflict your heritage. 
They kill the widow and the stranger,
   they murder the orphan, 
and they say, ‘The Lord does not see;
   the God of Jacob does not perceive.’ 

Understand, O dullest of the people;
   fools, when will you be wise? 
He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see? 
He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
   does he not chastise? 
The Lord knows our thoughts,*
   that they are but an empty breath. 

Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
   and whom you teach out of your law, 
giving them respite from days of trouble,
   until a pit is dug for the wicked. 
For the Lord will not forsake his people;
   he will not abandon his heritage; 
for justice will return to the righteous,
   and all the upright in heart will follow it. 

Who rises up for me against the wicked?
   Who stands up for me against evildoers? 
If the Lord had not been my help,
   my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. 
When I thought, ‘My foot is slipping’,
   your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. 
When the cares of my heart are many,
   your consolations cheer my soul. 
Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
   those who contrive mischief by statute? 
They band together against the life of the righteous,
   and condemn the innocent to death. 
But the Lord has become my stronghold,
   and my God the rock of my refuge. 
He will repay them for their iniquity
   and wipe them out for their wickedness;
   the Lord our God will wipe them out.
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