Daily Lectionary

Numbers 11:1-23; 31-35

¹ And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
² Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
³ So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
⁴ Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
⁵ We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
⁶ But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
⁷ Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
⁸ The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.
⁹ When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.
¹⁰ Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.
¹¹ Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
¹² Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
¹³ Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
¹⁴ I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
¹⁵ If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
¹⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.
¹⁸ And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
¹⁹ You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
²¹ But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’
²² Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?”
²³ And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”

³¹ Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.
³² And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
³³ While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.
³⁴ Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
³⁵ From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth. (ESV)

Luke 17:1-19

¹ And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
² It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
³ Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
⁴ and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
⁶ And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
⁷ “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?
⁸ Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?
⁹ Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
¹⁰ So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”
¹¹ On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
¹² And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance
¹³ and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”
¹⁴ When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.
¹⁵ Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;
¹⁶ and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.
¹⁷ Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?
¹⁸ Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
¹⁹ And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.” (ESV)