July 17, 2013
Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
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Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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★Zondervan King James Audio Bible
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+ Saints:
Servant of God Francis Garces and Companions
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St. Leo IV
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Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27
25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
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Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
2 The LORD's*When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, "LORD" or "GOD" is the translation of God's Proper Name. angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burnt with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."
4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"
He said, "Here I am."
5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
*3:2: When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, "LORD" or "GOD" is the translation of God's Proper Name.
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* 2 Samuel 6:1-23
1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God's ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Armies who sits above the cherubim.
3 They set God's ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab's house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
4 They brought it out of Abinadab's house, which was in the hill, with God's ark; and Ahio went before the ark.
5 David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God's ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
7 the LORD's anger burnt against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God's ark.
8 David was displeased, because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah,*"Perez Uzzah" means "outbreak against Uzzah". to this day.
9 David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How could the LORD's ark come to me?"
10 So David would not move the LORD's ark to be with him in David's city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite's house.
11 the LORD's ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite's house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
12 King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God's ark."
So David went and brought up God's ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David's city with joy.
13 When those who bore the LORD's ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
14 David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD's ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16 As the LORD's ark came into David's city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
17 They brought in the LORD's ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Armies.
19 He gave to all the people, even amongst the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the servants of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
21 David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the LORD, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before the LORD.
22 I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the servants of whom you have spoken, they will honour me."
23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
*6:8: "Perez Uzzah" means "outbreak against Uzzah".
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