The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

May 6, 2025

May 5, 2025 May 7, 2025

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 34:1-28

New Stone Tablets: A New Copy of the Laws
341The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out two stone tablets like the first ones. On these tablets I will write the same words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2Be ready by morning, and come up to Mount Sinai in the morning. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3No one may come up with you. In fact, no person is to be seen anywhere on the entire mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”
4Moses cut out two stone tablets like the first ones. Moses got up early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hand. 5The Lord came down in the cloud. He took his stand there with Moses and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6The Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed: “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and overflowing with mercy and truth, 7maintaining mercy for thousands, forgiving guilt and rebellion and sin. He will by no means clear the guilty. He calls their children and their children's children to account for the guilt of the fathers, even to the third and the fourth generation.”
8Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshipped. 9He said, “If I have now found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go along with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our guilt and our sin, and accept us as your possession.”
The Covenant Repeated
10The Lord said,
See, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will do marvelous things such as have never been created anywhere on earth or in any nation. So all the people who are around you will see the work of the Lord. For it is an awe-inspiring thing that I will do for you. 11Observe what I command you this day. Watch me as I drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12Be careful that you do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will be a trap in your midst. 13But you must break down their altars and smash their sacred memorial stones to pieces, and you must cut down their Asherah poles.[] 14So you must worship no other god. For the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.[] 15Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, so that they can prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods. If you do, they will invite you to eat their sacrifices, 16and they will invite you to take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters will prostitute themselves and make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods. 17You shall not make any idols[] for yourselves.
The Covenant Festivals
18You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.[] For seven days you are to eat bread without yeast, as I commanded you. Eat it at the time appointed in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.
19The firstborn of every mother[] is mine—the firstborn from all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle and sheep. 20The firstborn of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not want to redeem it, then you must break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you must redeem. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you must rest.
22You are to observe the Festival of Weeks[] with the first ripe produce from the wheat harvest.
Observe the Festival of Ingathering[] at the year's end.
23Three times a year all your males are to appear before God the Lord, the God of Israel. 24Because I will drive out nations before you and expand your borders, no one will covet your land when you go up to be in the presence[] of the Lord, your God, three times a year.
25You shall not offer leavened bread along with the blood of my sacrifices. Nothing from the sacrifice of the Festival of the Passover is to be left over until morning. 26You are to bring the best of the firstfruits from your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
You shall not boil a baby goat in its mother's milk.
27Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for these are the words with which I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[]

Luke 7:18-35

John the Baptist and Christ
(Matthew 11:2-19)
18John's disciples told him about all these things. 19Calling two of his disciples to him, he sent them to Jesus[] to ask, “Are you the one who was to come or should we look for someone else?” 20When the men had arrived, they said to Jesus, “John the Baptist sent us to ask you, ‘Are you the one who was to come or should we look for someone else?’”
21At that time Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits. And he gave many blind people the ability to see. 22Jesus answered them, “Go, tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. 23Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of me.”
24After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to talk to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 25No. Then what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Yet those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces. 26But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. 27This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’[]
28“Yes, I tell you,[] among those born of women there is no prophet[] greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
29When all the people (including the tax collectors) heard this, they declared that God was just, since they were baptized with the baptism of John. 30But the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected God's purpose for themselves by not being baptized by him.
31“To what then will I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? 32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance. We sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ 33For John the Baptist has come without eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35Yet wisdom is declared right by all her children.”