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...

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...