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APRIL 1
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who did it.
10 Remove Your plague from me;
26:13,14 you shall say before the LORD your I am consumed by the blow
God.The confession to be made in connection of Your hand.
with the offering of this first tithe consisted of 11 When with rebukes You correct man
a statement of obedience (vv. 13,14) and a for iniquity,
prayer for God’s blessing (v.15).In this manner, You make his beauty melt away
the Israelite confessed his continual depen- like a moth;
dence on God and lived in obedient expectance Surely every man is vapor. Selah
of God’s continued gracious blessing.
26:15 Look down from…heaven. This was
the first reference to God’s dwelling place
being in heaven. From His abode in heaven,
God had given the Israelites the land flowing 39:11 like a moth. The moth normally repre-
with milk and honey as He had promised to sented one of the most destructive creatures,
the patriarchs.His continued blessing on both but here the delicacy of the moth is intended
the people and the land was requested. (see Job 13:28; Is. 50:9; 51:8; Matt. 6:19ff.).

from my house, and also have given them to
the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the Proverbs 13:4–6
widow, according to all Your commandments 4 The soul of a lazy man desires, and has
which You have commanded me; I have not nothing;
transgressed Your commandments, nor have I But the soul of the diligent shall be
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forgotten them. I have not eaten any of it made rich.
when in mourning, nor have I removed any of 5
it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the A righteous man hates lying,
dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my But a wicked man is loathsome and
God, and have done according to all that You 6 comes to shame.
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have commanded me. Look down from Your Righteousness guards him whose way
holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your is blameless,
people Israel and the land which You have But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
given us, just as You swore to our fathers, “a Luke 6:1–26
land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
16 “This day the LORD your God commands Now it happened on the second Sabbath
you to observe these statutes and judgments; 6 after the first that He went through the
grainfields. And His disciples plucked the
therefore you shall be careful to observe them heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in
with all your heart and with all your soul. To- their hands. And some of the Pharisees said
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day you have proclaimed the LORD to be your to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful
God, and that you will walk in His ways and to do on the Sabbath?”
keep His statutes, His commandments, and 3 But Jesus answering them said, “Have you
His judgments, and that you will obey His not even read this, what David did when he
voice. Also today the LORD has proclaimed was hungry, he and those who were with him:
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you to be His special people, just as He prom- 4 how he went into the house of God, took and
ised you, that you should keep all His com- ate the showbread, and also gave some to
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mandments, and that He will set you high those with him, which is not lawful for any but
above all nations which He has made, in the priests to eat?” And He said to them, “The
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praise, in name, and in honor, and that you Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”
may be a holy people to the LORD your God, 6 Now it happened on another Sabbath, also,
just as He has spoken.” that He entered the synagogue and taught. And
a man was there whose right hand was with-
Psalm 39:7–11
ered. So the scribes and Pharisees watched
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7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for? Him closely, whether He would heal on the
My hope is in You. Sabbath, that they might find an accusation
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; against Him. But He knew their thoughts, and
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Do not make me the reproach of the said to the man who had the withered hand,
foolish. “Arise and stand here.” And he arose and
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