PM: The Lessons for Seventh Day of Christmas Dec.31st

13  To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

14  Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

15  Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

16  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17  For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

18  He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19  Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20  Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21  He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

22  Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

14  When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

15  And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

16  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

17  Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,

18  In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

19  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

20  Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.

21  And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

22  But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:

23  And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.