Bible in a Year.

On the thirty-sixth day, we celebrate victory and learn about divine dependence. Exodus 15-16 presents Moses' magnificent song celebrating victory at the Red Sea, followed by the miraculous provision of manna and quail in the wilderness, teaching Israel to trust God daily. Leviticus 11 establishes the laws regarding clean and unclean animals, distinguishing Israel from other nations and teaching practical holiness. Psalm 71 is a moving prayer of someone in old age, crying out for divine protection and remembering God's faithfulness from youth.

Chapter 15

1. Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord: and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.

2. The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

3. The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.

4. Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

5. The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.

7. And in the multitude of they glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.

8. And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depth were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

9. The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

10. Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

11. Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praiseworthy, doing wonders?

12. Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.

13. In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.

14. Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

15. Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

16. Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.

17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

18. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

19. For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.

20. So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances:

21. And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea.

22. And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

23. And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.

24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?

25. But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

26. Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

27. And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters.

Chapter 16

1. And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.

2. And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

3. And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

4. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

5. But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.

6. And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

7. And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?

8. And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.

9. Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.

10. And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness: and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12. I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel: say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

13. So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning, a dew lay round about the camp.

14. And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given you to eat.

16. This is the word, that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat: a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

17. And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

18. And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more: nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.

19. And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

20. And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, an it putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.

21. Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.

22. But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.

23. And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

24. And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.

25. And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.

26. Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

27. And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.

28. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

29. See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

30. And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

31. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

32. And Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter, that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

33. And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to keep unto your generations,

34. As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

35. And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

36. Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth.

3. Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.

4. But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others, that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean.

5. The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean.

6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.

7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.

10. But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

11. And detestable : their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall avoid.

12. All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

13. Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey,

14. And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind,

15. And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.

16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis,

18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion,

19. The heron, and the charadrion according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.

21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,

22. That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.

23. But of dying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you:

24. And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening:

25. And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead, he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.

26. Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.

27. That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.

28. And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.

29. These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that move upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind:

30. The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stello, and the lizard, and the mole:

31. 31All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.

32. And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths; or any thing in which work is done, they shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so afterwards shall be clean.

33. But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled, and therefore is to be broken.

34. Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean.

35. And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean: whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

36. But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.

37. If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.

38. But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.

39. If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening:

40. And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.

41. 41All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable, neither shall it be taken for meat.

42. Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

43. Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,

44. For I am the Lord your God: be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.

45. For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.

46. You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth:

47. That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.

1. A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former captives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion:

2. deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

3. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

5. For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth;

6. By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee shall I continually sing:

7. I run become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

8. Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long.

9. Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

10. For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,

11. Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

12. O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.

13. Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and shame that seek my hurt.

14. But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.

15. My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not knows learning,

16. I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.

17. Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.

18. And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

19. and thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

20. How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth :

21. Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me.

22. For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

23. My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed.

24. Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.