Reading 1, Isaiah 58:6-11 6 Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?7 Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if...

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 34:1-12 1 Then, leaving the Plains of Moab, Moses went up Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah opposite Jericho, and Yahweh showed him the whole country: Gilead as far as Dan,2 the whole of Naphtali, the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, the whole...

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 31:1-8 1 Moses went and spoke to all Israel as follows,2 'Today, I am one hundred and twenty years old, and can no longer act as leader. Yahweh has told me, "You shall not cross this Jordan."3 Yahweh your God himself will lead you across, he...

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 10:12-22 12 'And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask of you? Only this: to fear Yahweh your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul,13 to keep the commandments and laws of...

Reading 1, Wisdom 18:6-9 6 That night had been known in advance to our ancestors, so that, well knowing him in whom they had put their trust, they would be sure of his promises.7 Your people thus were waiting both for the rescue of the upright and for the ruin of the...

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 6:4-13 4 'Listen, Israel: Yahweh our God is the one, the only Yahweh.5 You must love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.6 Let the words I enjoin on you today stay in your heart.7 You shall tell them...

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...