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Daily Lectionary

May 9, 2024

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These daily readings from the EHV follow the one-year daily lectionary provided in Christian Worship: Hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book, and the Treasury of Daily Prayer. In this lectionary, two readings of 15-25 verses each are provided for each day. Under this plan, nearly all of the New Testament and approximately one-third of the Old Testament are read each year. These readings fit well within the daily offices of Matins, Vespers, or Compline as daily family devotions.

Numbers 11:1-23, 31-35

Fire From the Lord at Taberah
111The people were complaining about their hardships so that the Lord heard it. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned. So the Lord's fire burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2The people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord. So the fire died down. 3They named that place Taberah,[] because the Lord's fire burned among them.
Complaints About the Food
4The foreign rabble who were among the Israelites were overcome by their craving. The Israelites also wept once again and said, “Who is going to give us meat to eat? 5We remember the fish we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6But now our lives are wasting away.[] We have nothing at all to look at except this manna.”
7The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like resin.[] 8The people went around and gathered it up. They would grind it in hand mills or crush it in a mortar. They would boil it in pots or make it into loaves. It tasted like a cake made with oil. 9When dew fell on the camp during the night, the manna fell along with it.
10Moses heard people from all the clans weeping, each one at the entrance to his own tent. At the same time, the Lord's anger burned fiercely, and Moses was displeased.[] 11Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your eyes? Why do you put the burden of all these people on me? 12Did I conceive all these people by myself? Am I the one who gave birth to them so that you say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms to the land which I swore to their fathers, just as a woman who is nursing carries a baby’? 13Where is there meat for me to give to all these people? Listen, they are weeping to me and saying, ‘Give us meat so that we can eat.’ 14I am not able to carry all these people by myself, because that is too much for me. 15If you are going to treat me this way, please kill me right now. If I have found favor in your eyes, do not let me see my own ruin.”
Elders Appointed to Assist Moses
16So the Lord said to Moses, “Gather seventy men from the elders of Israel for me, men whom you know to be elders and officers for the people. Take them to the Tent of Meeting and make them stand there with you. 17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take from the Spirit that is on you and will put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it by yourself.
18“Say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves to be ready for tomorrow. You will eat meat because you have wept and the Lord has heard you say, “Who will give us meat to eat? Yes, things were good for us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat. 19You will eat not just for one day, for two days, for five days, for ten days, not even just for twenty days, 20but for a whole month, until meat comes out of your nostrils, and you begin to loathe it. This will happen because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and you have wept in his presence, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
21Moses said, “I am in the middle of a people with six hundred thousand foot soldiers, and now you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a whole month.’ 22If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would that be enough for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would that be enough for them?”
23The Lord said to Moses, “Is the arm of the Lord too short? Now you will see whether what I have said to you will happen or not.”
Quail and a Plague from the Lord
31A wind sent out from the Lord brought quail in from the sea. The wind scattered them throughout the camp (and about a day's journey in any direction around the camp) about three feet deep[] on the ground. 32All that day, all that night, and all the next day, the people got up and gathered the quail. No one gathered fewer than sixty bushels.[] They spread them out around the camp. 33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord's anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very severe plague. 34They named that place Kibroth Hatta'avah, because there they buried the people who were overcome by their craving.
35From Kibroth Hatta'avah the people traveled to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.

Luke 17:1-19

Do Not Cause Little Believers to Fall Into Sin
(Matthew 18:6-10; Mark 9:42-48)
171Jesus said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2It would be better for that person if a millstone would be hung around his neck and he would be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3Watch yourselves.
“If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. 4Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”
Increase Our Faith
5The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6The Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you could tell this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7Which one of you who has a servant plowing or taking care of sheep will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at the table’? 8Won't the master tell him instead, ‘Prepare my supper, and after you are properly dressed, serve me while I eat and drink. After that you may eat and drink’? 9He does not thank the servant because he did what he was commanded to do, does he? 10So also you, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have only done what we were supposed to do.’”
Ten Lepers Healed—Only One Thanks God
11On another occasion, as Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12When he entered a certain village, ten men with leprosy met him. Standing at a distance, 13they called out loudly, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” As they went away they were cleansed.
15One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. 16He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking him. And he was a Samaritan. 17Jesus responded, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18Was no one found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19Then he said to him, “Get up and go your way. Your faith has saved you.”