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Exodus 4.1–23    

4Then Moses answered, ‘But suppose they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, “The Lord did not appear to you.” ’ 2The Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’ He said, ‘A staff.’ 3And he said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’ So he threw the staff on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses drew back from it. 4Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Reach out your hand, and seize it by the tail’—so he reached out his hand and grasped it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5‘so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.’6 Again, the Lord said to him, ‘Put your hand inside your cloak.’ He put his hand into his cloak; and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. 7Then God said, ‘Put your hand back into your cloak’—so he put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored like the rest of his body— 8‘If they will not believe you or heed the first sign, they may believe the second sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or heed you, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.’10 But Moses said to the Lord, ‘O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.’ 11Then the Lord said to him, ‘Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.’ 13But he said, ‘O my Lord, please send someone else.’ 14Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, ‘What of your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak fluently; even now he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you his heart will be glad. 15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 16He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him. 17Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.’18 Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, ‘Please let me go back to my kindred in Egypt and see whether they are still living.’ And Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace.’ 19The Lord said to Moses in Midian, ‘Go back to Egypt; for all those who were seeking your life are dead.’ 20So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt; and Moses carried the staff of God in his hand.21 And the Lord said to Moses, ‘When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son. 23I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may worship me.’ But you refused to let him go; now I will kill your firstborn son.” ’ 

Hebrews 10.1–18    

10Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshippers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin? 3But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year. 4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,‘Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,   but a body you have prepared for me;6 in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings   you have taken no pleasure.7 Then I said, “See, God, I have come to do your will, O God”   (in the scroll of the book it is written of me).’8When he said above, ‘You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sin-offerings’ (these are offered according to the law), 9then he added, ‘See, I have come to do your will.’ He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. 10And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.11 And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he sat down at the right hand of God’, 13and since then has been waiting ‘until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.’ 14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. 15And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,16 ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them   after those days, says the Lord:I will put my laws in their hearts,   and I will write them on their minds’,17he also adds,‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’18Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Psalm 91

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High ♦︎   and abides under the shadow of the Almighty,2 Shall say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my stronghold, ♦︎   my God, in whom I put my trust.’3 For he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler ♦︎   and from the deadly pestilence.4 He shall cover you with his wings      and you shall be safe under his feathers; ♦︎   his faithfulness shall be your shield and buckler.5 You shall not be afraid of any terror by night, ♦︎   nor of the arrow that flies by day;6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, ♦︎   nor of the sickness that destroys at noonday.7 Though a thousand fall at your side      and ten thousand at your right hand, ♦︎   yet it shall not come near you.8 Your eyes have only to behold ♦︎   to see the reward of the wicked.9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge ♦︎   and the Most High your stronghold,10 There shall no evil happen to you, ♦︎   neither shall any plague come near your tent.11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, ♦︎   to keep you in all your ways.12 They shall bear you in their hands, ♦︎   lest you dash your foot against a stone.13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder; ♦︎   the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.14 Because they have set their love upon me,      therefore will I deliver them; ♦︎   I will lift them up, because they know my name.15 They will call upon me and I will answer them; ♦︎   I am with them in trouble,      I will deliver them and bring them to honour.16 With long life will I satisfy them ♦︎   and show them my salvation.