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This Daily Devotion covers the first five books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy also called the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, in a period of one year in a Monday through Friday format, the Psalms and order of devotion follow those presented in The Treasury of Daily Prayer from Concordia Publishing House.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 114
Psa 114:1 When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
Psa 114:2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
Psa 114:3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.
Psa 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
Psa 114:5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan,
that you turn back?
Psa 114:6 O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
Psa 114:7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Psa 114:8 who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.
Reading Lev 13:17-46
17 and the priest shall examine him, and ?if? the infection has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean—he is clean.
18 “And when someone’s body ?has? a skin sore on his skin and it is healed 19 and a white swelling or a ?pinkish? spot appears in the skin sore’s place, then he shall show himself to the priest. 20 And the priest shall examine it, and ?if? its appearance is deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore. 21 And if the priest examines it and ?if? there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. 22 But if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infection. 23 But if the spot has stayed unchanged, it has not spread, it is the skin sore’s scar, so the priest shall declare him clean.
24 “Or when a body ?has? a burn-spot ?from? fire on its skin and the ?raw flesh? of the burn-spot is ?pinkish? or white, 25 then the priest shall examine it, and ?if? the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an infectious skin disease—it has broken out in the burn-spot; so the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease. 26 But if the priest examines it and ?if? there is not white hair in the spot and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. 27 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease. 28 But if it the spot has stayed unchanged in its place, it has not spread on the skin and it is faded, then it is the burn-spot’s swelling, so the priest shall declare him clean, because it is the burn-spot’s scar.
29 “And when a man or a woman ?has? an infection on the head or in the beard, 30 then the priest shall examine the infection, and ?if? its appearance is deeper than the skin and in it is thin bright red hair, then the priest shall declare it unclean—it is a diseased area of skin; it is an infectious skin disease of the head or the beard. 31 But if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin’s infection and ?if? its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person with the diseased area of skin for seven days. 32 And the priest shall examine the infection on the seventh day, and ?if? the diseased area of skin has not spread and it does not have bright red hair in it and the diseased area of the skin’s appearance is not deeper than the skin, 33 then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the diseased area of skin, and the priest shall confine the person with the diseased area of skin a second time for seven days. 34 And the priest shall examine the diseased area of skin on the seventh day, and ?if? the diseased area has not spread on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean. 35 But if the diseased area of skin has not spread further on the skin after his cleansing, 36 then the priest shall examine him, and ?if? the diseased area of skin has spread on the skin, the priest shall not inspect for bright red hair—he is unclean. 37 But if, in his eyes, the diseased area of skin has stayed unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the diseased area of skin is healed—he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 “And when a man or a woman ?has? spots on their body’s skin, white spots, 39 then the priest shall examine them, and ?if? the spots on their body’s skin are a faded white, it is a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin—it is clean.
40 “And if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean. 41 And if he becomes bald ?from his forehead?, his head is bald, he is clean. 42 But if a ?pinkish? infection occurs on the bald spot or on the bald forehead, it is an infectious skin disease that sprouts on his bald spot or on his bald forehead. 43 So the priest shall examine him, and ?if? the infection’s swelling is ?pinkish? on his bald spot or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of an infectious skin disease on the body, 44 he is a man afflicted with a skin disease—he is unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean—his infection is on his head.
45 “As for the person who is afflicted with a skin disease, his garments must be torn and his ?hair? must be allowed to hang loosely, and he must cover his upper lip, and he must call out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46 For all the days during which the infection is on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling must be ?outside the camp?.”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
O God, on this day You once taught the hearts of Your faithful people by sending them the light of Your Holy Spirit. Grant us in our day by the same Spirit to have a right understanding in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy consolation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us according to Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
