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Daily Lectionary

June 1, 2025

May 31, 2025 June 2, 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.

Numbers 14:1-25

The People Rebel
141The entire community raised a loud cry. The people wept that night. 2All of the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The entire community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! If only we had died in this wilderness! 3Why is the Lord bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our children will be taken as captives! Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “Let's put someone in charge and return to Egypt.”
5Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the entire assembly of the Israelite community.
6Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had scouted the land, tore their clothes. 7They spoke to the entire Israelite community, “The land that we explored and scouted is a very good land. 8If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. 9Only do not revolt against the Lord. Do not fear the people of the land, for we will eat them up.[] Their protection is taken away from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
10Still the entire community threatened to stone them to death. The Glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites over the Tent of Meeting. 11The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? 12I will strike them with a plague and disown them. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
Moses Intercedes for Israel
13Moses said to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear it, since by your own power you brought these people up from the midst of the Egyptians. 14They will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have heard that you, the Lord, are in the midst of this people. You, the Lord, are seen face-to-face.[] Your cloud stands over them. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 15If you killed these people, leaving no one, then the nations which have heard about your fame will say, 16‘Because the Lord was not able to bring these people into the land which he swore to them, he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ 17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, just as you have said, 18‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in mercy, forgiving guilt and rebellion. He certainly does not leave the guilty unpunished, following up on the guilt of the fathers with the children unto the third and the fourth generation.’ 19According to your great mercy, please pardon the guilt of these people, just as you have forgiven these people from Egypt until now.”
The Lord Decrees Forty Years of Wandering
20The Lord said, “I have pardoned them just as you have said. 21But as surely as I live, and as surely as the entire earth is filled with the glory of the Lord, 22not one of the men who has seen my glory and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who has tested me these ten times and has not listened to my voice— 23I promise that none of them will see the land which I swore to their fathers. None of those who treated me with contempt will see it. 24But because my servant Caleb had a different spirit and has followed me completely, I will bring him into the land to which he traveled. His descendants will possess it. 25Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys and lowlands, tomorrow you are to turn back and set out into the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Luke 18:18-34

The Rich Young Ruler
(Matthew 19:16-30; Mark 10:17-31)
18A certain ruler asked Jesus, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God. 20You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery. You shall not murder. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. Honor your father and mother.’”[]
21“I have kept all these since I was a child,” he said.
22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
23But when the ruler heard these words, he became very sad, because he was very rich.
24When Jesus saw that the man became very sad, he said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
26Those who heard this said, “Then who can be saved?”
27He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible for God.”
28And Peter said, “Look, we have left our possessions[] and followed you.”
29He said to them, “Amen I tell you: Anyone who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will most certainly receive many times more in this time and, in the age to come, eternal life.”
Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection Again
(Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34)
31He took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished. 32Indeed, he will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, mistreat him, spit on him, 33flog him, and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”
34They did not understand any of these things. What he said was hidden from them, and they did not understand what was said.