Bible Readings - July 17, 2025

Reading 1

Exodus 3:13-20

“But,” said Moses to God, “if I go to the Israelites and say to them,

‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,

‘What is his name?’ what do I tell them?”

God replied, "I am who am."

Then he added, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel:

I AM sent me to you."

God spoke further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the children of Israel:

The LORD, the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,

has sent me to you.

"This is my name forever;

this my title for all generations.

"Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and tell them:

The LORD, the God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

has appeared to me and said:

I am concerned about you

and about the way you are being treated in Egypt;

so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt

into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,

Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,

a land flowing with milk and honey.

"Thus they will heed your message.

Then you and the elders of Israel

shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him:

"The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent us word.

Permit us, then, to go a three-days' journey in the desert,

that we may offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God.

"Yet I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go

unless he is forced.

I will stretch out my hand, therefore,

and smite Egypt by doing all kinds of wondrous deeds there.

After that he will send you away."

Psalm 105:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-27

Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name;

make known among the nations his deeds.

Recall the wondrous deeds that he has wrought,

his portents, and the judgments he has uttered.

He remembers forever his covenant

which he made binding for a thousand generations--

Which he entered into with Abraham

and by his oath to Isaac.

He greatly increased his people

and made them stronger than their foes,

Whose hearts he changed, so that they hated his people,

and dealt deceitfully with his servants.

He sent Moses his servant;

Aaron, whom he had chosen.

They wrought his signs among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

Gospel

Matthew 11:28-30

"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,

and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,

for I am meek and humble of heart;

and you will find rest for yourselves.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."