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Daily Lectionary

April 23, 2025

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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.

Exodus 16:13-35

13So in the evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew surrounded the camp. 14When the layer of dew was gone, there were thin flakes on the surface of the wilderness, thin as frost on the ground. 15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”[] because they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given to you as food to eat. 16This is what the Lord has commanded: All of them are to gather as much of it as they need to eat. You are to take an omer[] per person based on the number of people each of you has in your tents.”
17The Israelites did this, and some gathered more, some less. 18When they measured it with an omer, the one who gathered more did not have too much, and the one who gathered less did not have too little. All of them gathered as much as they needed to eat. 19Moses said to them, “No one is to leave any of it until morning.” 20However, they did not listen to Moses. Some of them left part of it until morning, and it became full of worms and stank. So Moses was angry with them.
21They gathered it each morning. All of them gathered as much as they needed to eat. When the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each person, and all the leaders of the community came and reported to Moses. 23He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: Tomorrow is a complete rest, a holy sabbath[] to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, but set aside for yourselves all the rest of it to be kept until morning.” 24So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25Moses said, “Today eat whatever is left over, for today is a sabbath to the Lord. Today you will not find any around the camp.[] 26Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they did not find any. 28The Lord said to Moses, “How long will you people refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions? 29Look, the Lord has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, on the sixth day he will give you two days' worth of bread. All of you are to stay where you are. None of you are to leave your places on the seventh day.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day.
31The house of Israel called it manna.[] It looked like white coriander seed, and it tasted like wafers made with honey. 32Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: A full omer[] of it is to be kept throughout your generations so that they may see the bread which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
33Moses said to Aaron, “Take a container, and put a full omer of manna in it. Place it before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations.” 34To obey the Lord's command to Moses, Aaron placed an omer before the Testimony,[] to be preserved. 35The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Hebrews 10:19-39

Confidence Through Christ
19Brothers,[] we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place through the blood of Jesus. 20It is a new and living way he opened for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh. 21We also have a great priest over the house of God. 22So let us approach with a sincere heart, in the full confidence of faith, because our hearts have been sprinkled to take away a bad conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 23Let us hold on firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful.
Do Not Keep On Sinning
24Let us also consider carefully how to spur each other on to love and good works. 25Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have the habit of doing. Rather, let us encourage each other, and all the more as you see the Day[] approaching.
26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins. 27Instead, there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a raging fire that is going to consume the enemies of God. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the basis of the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much greater punishment do you think will be deserved by the person who trampled the Son of God underfoot, who considered insignificant the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and who insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know the one who said:
Vengeance is mine. I will repay.[][]
And again:
The Lord will judge his people.[]
31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Endure Suffering Patiently
32Remember the former days when, after you were enlightened, you patiently endured a great struggle of sufferings. 33Sometimes you were publicly shamed by insults and persecutions. At other times you became companions of those who were treated this way. 34Indeed, you also sympathized with those in prison,[] and, when your possessions were seized, you accepted it with joy, because you knew that you yourselves had a better and lasting possession. 35So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36Certainly you need patient endurance so that, after you do God's will, you may receive what was promised. 37For in just a little while:
The one who is coming will come and will not delay.
38And my[] righteous one will live by faith,
but if he shrinks back,
my soul takes no pleasure in him.[]
39Now we are not part of those who shrink back, resulting in destruction, but of those who have faith, resulting in the soul's salvation.