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⁸Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
⁹And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
¹⁰Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
¹¹Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
¹³And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
¹⁴And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
¹⁵And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
¹⁶And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
¹⁷But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
¹⁸And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
¹⁹And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
²⁰Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
²¹And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
²²And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

2And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
²And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
³And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
⁴And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
⁵And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
⁶And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
⁷Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
⁸And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
⁹And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.
¹⁰And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Psalm 124

¹If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
²If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
³Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
⁴Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
⁵Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

12I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
³For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
⁴For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
⁵So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
⁶Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
⁷Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
⁸Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

¹³When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
¹⁴And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
¹⁵He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
¹⁶And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
¹⁷And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
¹⁸And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
¹⁹And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
²⁰Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.