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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 30:1-5, 8-12
Joy Comes with the Morning
1 A Psalm of David.
A song at the dedication of the temple.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
4 Sing praises to the LORD,
O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
5 For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
8 To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me!
O LORD, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Reading Lev 14:1-32
Instructions for Cleansing Infectious Skin Diseases
14 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease ?at the time of? his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go ?outside the camp?, and the priest shall examine him, and ?if? the skin disease’s infection is healed on the afflicted person, 4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and ?cedar wood? and ?a crimson thread? and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing. 5 Then the priest shall command someone to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel. 6 He must take the living bird and the ?cedar wood? and ?the crimson thread? and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird’s blood slaughtered over the fresh water. 7 And he shall spatter the blood seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird ?into the open field?. 8 Then the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but he shall stay ?outside his tent? for seven days. 9 ?And then? on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—he must shave his head and his beard and ?his eyebrows? and all the rest of his hair—and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus he shall be clean.
10 “And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb ?in its first year? without defect and three-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil. 11 And the priest who cleanses him shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and ?these things? ?before? Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of assembly. 12 Then the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering ?before? Yahweh. 13 And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary’s space, because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering—?it is a most holy thing?. 14 And the priest shall take ?some of? the guilt offering’s blood, and the priest shall put it on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe. 15 And the priest shall take ?some of? the log of oil, and he shall pour it on his left palm; 16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter ?some of? the oil with his finger seven times ?before? Yahweh. 17 Then the priest shall put ?some of? the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear’s lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe, on top of the guilt offering’s blood. 18 And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him ?before? Yahweh. 19 Thus the priest shall ?sacrifice? the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. 20 Then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and so he shall be clean.
21 “But if he is poor and ?he cannot afford? it, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for himself and one-tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil, 22 and two turtledoves or two ?young doves? that ?he can afford?, and one shall be a sin offering and the ?other? a burnt offering. 23 And he shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly’s entrance ?before? Yahweh on the eighth day for his cleansing. 24 And the priest shall take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering ?before? Yahweh; 25 and he shall slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take ?some of? the guilt offering’s blood, and he shall put it on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe. 26 Then the priest shall pour out ?some of? the oil on his own left palm, 27 and with his right finger the priest shall spatter ?some of? the oil that is on his left palm seven times ?before? Yahweh. 28 Then the priest shall put ?some of? the oil that is on his palm on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe on the place of the guilt offering’s blood. 29 And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing to make atonement for him ?before? Yahweh. 30 And he shall ?sacrifice? one of the turtledoves or the ?young doves? that ?he can afford?, 31 even what ?he can afford?, the one as a sin offering and the ?other? as a burnt offering in addition to the grain offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing ?before? Yahweh. 32 This is the regulation of the one on whom is an infectious skin disease who ?cannot afford? the cost for his cleansing.”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Almighty God, You chose Your servant Matthias to be numbered among the Twelve. Grant that Your Church, ever preserved from false teachers, may be taught and guided by faithful and true pastors, through Jesus Christ, 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.
