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Exodus 15

Then Moses and the Israelites sang^a this song to the LORD:^*

I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;

horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.

2My strength and my refuge is the LORD,

and he has become my savior.^b

This is my God, I praise him;

the God of my father, I extol him.

3The LORD is a warrior,

LORD is his name!

4Pharaoh’s chariots and army he hurled into the sea;

the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.^*

5The flood waters covered them,

they sank into the depths like a stone.^c

6Your right hand, O LORD, magnificent in power,

your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.

7In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries;

you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.

8At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up,

the flowing waters stood like a mound,

the flood waters foamed in the midst of the sea.

9The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them;

I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them;

I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

10When you blew with your breath, the sea covered them;

like lead they sank in the mighty waters.

11Who is like you among the gods, O LORD?

Who is like you, magnificent among the holy ones?

Awe-inspiring in deeds of renown, worker of wonders,

12when you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!

13In your love^* you led the people you redeemed;

in your strength you guided them to your holy dwelling.

14The peoples heard and quaked;

anguish gripped the dwellers in Philistia.

15Then were the chieftains of Edom dismayed,

the nobles of Moab seized by trembling;

All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away;

16^d terror and dread fell upon them.

By the might of your arm they became silent like stone,

while your people, LORD, passed over,

while the people whom you created passed over.^*

17You brought them in, you planted them

on the mountain that is your own—

The place you made the base of your throne, LORD,

the sanctuary, LORD, your hands established.

18May the LORD reign forever and ever!

19When Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen entered the sea, the LORD made the waters of the sea flow back upon them, though the Israelites walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.^e

20Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, while all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing;

21and she responded^* to them:

Sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;

horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.^f

V. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS TO SINAI

At Marah and Elim.

22^g Then Moses led Israel forward from the Red Sea,^* and they marched out to the wilderness of Shur. After traveling for three days through the wilderness without finding water,

23they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink its water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah.

24As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

25he cried out to the LORD, who pointed out to him a piece of wood. When he threw it into the water, the water became fresh.^h

It was here that God, in making statutes and ordinances for them, put them to the test.

26He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the LORD, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians;ⁱ for I, the LORD, am your healer.

27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.^j

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Exodus 16

The Wilderness of Sin.

1Having set out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month^* after their departure from the land of Egypt.

2Here in the wilderness the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

3The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!”

The Quail and the Manna.

4Then the LORD said to Moses:^a I am going to rain down bread from heaven^* for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not.

5On the sixth day, however, when they prepare what they bring in, let it be twice as much as they gather on the other days.

6So Moses and Aaron told all the Israelites,^b “At evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt;

7and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, when he hears your grumbling against him. But who are we that you should grumble against us?”

8And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and in the morning your fill of bread, and hears the grumbling you utter against him, who then are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the LORD.”

9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole Israelite community: Approach the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.”

10But while Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they turned in the direction of the wilderness, and there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud!

11The LORD said to Moses:

12I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them: In the evening twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have your fill of bread, and then you will know that I, the LORD, am your God.

13In the evening, quail^c came up and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all about the camp,

14and when the layer of dew evaporated, fine flakes were on the surface of the wilderness, fine flakes like hoarfrost on the ground.

15On seeing it, the Israelites asked one another, “What is this?”^* for they did not know what it was. But Moses told them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.^d

Regulations Regarding the Manna.

16“Now, this is what the LORD has commanded. Gather as much of it as each needs to eat, an omer^* for each person for as many of you as there are, each of you providing for those in your own tent.”

17The Israelites did so. Some gathered a large and some a small amount.

18^* But when they measured it out by the omer, the one who had gathered a large amount did not have too much, and the one who had gathered a small amount did not have too little. They gathered as much as each needed to eat.

19Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over until morning.”

20But they did not listen to Moses, and some kept a part of it over until morning, and it became wormy and stank. Therefore Moses was angry with them.

21Morning after morning they gathered it, as much as each needed to eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each person. When all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses,

23he told them, “That is what the LORD has prescribed. Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy sabbath of the LORD. Whatever you want to bake, bake; whatever you want to boil, boil; but whatever is left put away and keep until the morning.”

24When they put it away until the morning, as Moses commanded, it did not stink nor were there worms in it.

25Moses then said, “Eat it today, for today is the sabbath of the LORD. Today you will not find any in the field.

26Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, it will not be there.”

27Still, on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they did not find any.

28Then the LORD said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?

29Take note! The LORD has given you the sabbath. That is why on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. Each of you stay where you are and let no one go out on the seventh day.

30After that the people rested on the seventh day.

31The house of Israel named this food manna.^e It was like coriander seed,^* white, and it tasted like wafers made with honey.

32Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded. Keep a full omer of it for your future generations, so that they may see the food I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.”

33Moses then told Aaron, “Take a jar^* and put a full omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to keep it for your future generations.”

34As the LORD had commanded Moses, Aaron placed it in front of the covenant^* to keep it.

35The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came to settled land;^f they ate the manna until they came to the borders of Canaan.

36(An omer is one tenth of an ephah.)^*

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Mark 9 :35-52

Ambition of James and John.

35ⁿ Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”

36He replied, “What do you wish [me] to do for you?”

37They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left.”

38^{* o} Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

39They said to him, “We can.” Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;

40but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

41When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.

42^* Jesus summoned them and said to them,^p “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt.

43But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;

44whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.

45For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The Blind Bartimaeus.^*

46They came to Jericho.^q And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging.

47On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”

48And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me.”

49Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take courage; get up, he is calling you.”

50He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

51Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.”

52Jesus told him, “Go your way; your faith has saved you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.

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