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Daily Lectionary

October 5, 2023

October 4, 2023 October 6, 2023

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.

Deuteronomy 5:1-21

51Moses called together all Israel and said this to them:
Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am speaking in your hearing today so that you learn them and are conscientious about carrying them out. 2The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with those who are here today, all of us who are living today. 4Face-to-face the Lord spoke with you at the mountain from the middle of the fire. 5At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to relate to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and you did not go up on the mountain.
The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:1-17)
Then the Lord said:
6I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, where you were slaves.[]
7You shall have no other gods beside me.[] 8You shall not make any carved image for yourself or a likeness of anything in heaven above, on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. 9Do not bow down to them or be subservient[] to them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God.[] I follow up on[] the guilt of the fathers with their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren if they also hate me. 10But I show mercy to thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
11You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not permit anyone who misuses his name to escape unpunished.
12Observe the Sabbath day by setting it apart as holy, just as the Lord your God commanded you. 13Six days you are to serve and perform all of your regular work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath rest to the Lord your God. You are not to do any regular work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock or the alien who resides inside your gates, in order that your male servant and your female servant may rest like you. 15Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the day of rest.
16Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God commanded you, so that you may prolong your days and so that it may go well for you on the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
17You shall not commit murder.
18You shall not commit adultery.
19You shall not steal.
20You shall not give lying testimony against your neighbor.
21You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house or his field, his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Matthew 8:18-34

Follow Jesus
(Luke 9:57-62)
18When Jesus saw a large crowd gathering around him, he gave orders to go over to the other shore.
19Then an expert in the law came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
20Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
22But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Jesus Calms the Storm
(Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25)
23When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24Suddenly a terrible storm came up on the sea, so that their boat was covered by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping. 25They went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We're going to die!”
26He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a complete calm.
27The men were amazed, saying, “What kind of a man is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!”
Two Demon-Possessed Men and a Herd of Pigs
(Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39)
28When he arrived at the other side, in the region of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him there. They were very dangerous, so that nobody could pass that way. 29Suddenly they cried out, “What do we have to do with you, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” 30There was a large herd of pigs feeding some distance away from them. 31The demons begged him, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
32He told them, “Go!”
So the demons came out of the men and went into the pigs. Immediately the whole herd of pigs rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water. 33Those who were feeding the pigs fled and went into the town. They reported everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. 34Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.