Bible in a Year.

On the thirty-first day, the plagues continue to demonstrate God's power. Exodus 8 describes three devastating plagues: frogs covering the entire land, swarms of lice, and flies invading Egypt, while Pharaoh repeatedly hardens his heart. Leviticus 6 provides detailed instructions to the priests on how to administer the various sacrifices and maintain a perpetual fire on the altar. Psalm 48 celebrates Jerusalem as the city of the great King, where God has established His presence and defends His people, in contrast to Egypt, which is being judged.

1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

2. But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.

3. And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs: which shall come up, and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and in the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats;

4. And the frogs shall come in to thee and to thy people, and to all thy servants.

5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.

6. And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

7. And the magicians also by their enchantments did in like manner, and the brought forth frogs upon all the land of Egypt

8. But Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

9. And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people: and may remain only in the river.

10. And he answered: Tomorrow. But he said: I will do according to thy word; that thou mayst know that there is none like to the Lord our God.

11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the river.

12. And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to the Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the frogs.

13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:

14. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted.

15. And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.

16. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth: and may there be sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.

17. And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod: and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.

18. And the magicians with their enchantments practiced in like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.

19. And the magicians said to Pharao This is the finger of God. And Pharao heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.

20. The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao: for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

21. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses all kind of flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.

22. And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is, wonderful in that lay, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

23. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be.

24. And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into he houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.

25. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, and sacrifice to your God in this land.

26. And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone us.

27. We will go three days' journey into the wilderness: and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

28. And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness: but go no farther: pray for me.

29. And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people tomorrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

30. So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.

31. And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left so much as one.

32. And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time would he let the people go.

1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;

3. Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

4. Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

5. All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides to the owner, whom he wronged.

6. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock, and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence:

7. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he hath sinned.

8. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

9. Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust: It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be of the same altar.

10. The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen breeches, and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire hath burnt, and putting them beside the altar,

11. Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place,

12. And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning, and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.

13. This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

14. This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.

15. The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered with oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he shall burn it on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odour to the Lord:

16. And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle.

17. And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.

18. The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

19. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

20. This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must offer to the Lord, in the day of their anointing: They shall offer the tenth part of an ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening:

21. It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be fried in a fryingpan.

22. And the priest that rightfully succeedeth his father, shall offer it hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord, and it shall be wholly burnt on the altar.

23. For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire, neither shall any man eat thereof.

24. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

25. Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin: in the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies.

26. The priest that offereth it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle.

27. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If a garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a holy place.

28. And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken, but if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with water.

29. Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

30. For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is carried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.

1. A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.

2. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

3. With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

4. In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

5. For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.

6. So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:

7. trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

8. With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.

9. As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.