Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:32-40 32 'Put this question, then, to the ages that are past, that have gone before you, from when God created the human race on earth: Was there ever a word so majestic, from one end of heaven to the other? Was anything like it ever heard?33...

Reading 1, Numbers 20:1-13 1 The Israelites, the whole community, arrived in the first month at the desert of Zin. The people settled at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.2 There was no water for the community, so they banded together against Moses and Aaron.3...

Reading 1, Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 9 While I was watching, thrones were set in place and one most venerable took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool. His throne was a blaze of flames, its wheels were a burning fire.10 A stream of...

Reading 1, Numbers 12:1-13 1 Miriam, and Aaron too, criticised Moses over the Cushite woman he had married. He had indeed married a Cushite woman.2 They said, 'Is Moses the only one through whom Yahweh has spoken? Has he not spoken through us too?' Yahweh heard this.3...

Reading 1, Numbers 11:4-15 4 The rabble who had joined the people were feeling the pangs of hunger, and the Israelites began to weep again. 'Who will give us meat to eat?' they said.5 'Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks,...

Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 2 Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile!21 For here is one who has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully and must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This is futile...

Reading 1, Leviticus 25:1, 8-17 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and said:8 "You will count seven weeks of years -- seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years.9 And on the tenth day of the seventh month you will...

Reading 1, Leviticus 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34-37 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:4 "These are Yahweh's solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you will summon the Israelites on the appointed day:5 "The fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, is the...

Reading 1, Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38 16 Moses did this; he did exactly as Yahweh had ordered him.17 On the first day of the first month in the second year the Dwelling was erected.18 Moses erected the Dwelling. He fixed its sockets, set up its frames, put its crossbars...

Reading 1, Exodus 34:29-35 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he was coming down the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was radiant because he had been talking to him.30 And when Aaron...