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Friday
The First
Lesson
Numbers 20:14-29
14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that
hath befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not
pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will
we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's
high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left,
until we have passed thy borders.
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I
come out against thee with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the
high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will
pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through
on my feet.
20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
wherefore Israel turned away from him.
22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed
from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the
coast of the land of Edom, saying,
24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not
enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel,
because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
Hor:
26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar
his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall
die there.
27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into
mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon
Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount:
and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
29 And
when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned
for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
1st Lesson Questions -
Numbers 20:14-29. Who will mourn when I die? (V. 29) RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Luke 1:67-80
67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and
redeemed his people,
69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house
of his servant David;
70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have
been since the world began:
71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand
of all that hate us;
72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember
his holy covenant;
73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of
the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of
our life.
76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest:
for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his
ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission
of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring
from on high hath visited us,
79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in
the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Luke 1:67-80. Where are Zechariah's words found in the prayer book? Why?RESOLVE.