Weekly Public Reading 5/17/25 Leviticus 14:33 - 15:15 40 verses GOSPEL Matthew 17:14-18:14 28 verses Tazria-Metzora

Leviticus 14:33 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Leviticus 14:34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

Leviticus 14:35 then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘It appears to me that an infection is in the house.’

Leviticus 14:36 And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that all that is in the house might not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go to examine the house.

Leviticus 14:37 And he shall examine the infection, and if the infection on the house’s wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall,

Leviticus 14:38 then the priest shall go out from the house to the house’s entrance, and he shall confine the house for seven days.

Leviticus 14:39 And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread on the house’s wall,

Leviticus 14:40 the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city on an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:41 Then they shall scrape off the plaster from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster, which they scraped off, outside the city on an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:42 And they shall take other stones, and they shall put them in place of those stones, and they shall take other plaster, and they shall replaster the house.

Leviticus 14:43 “But if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they have removed the stones and after scraping off the plaster of the house and after it has been replastered,

Leviticus 14:44 then the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house—it is unclean.

Leviticus 14:45 So he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house’s plaster, and he shall bring it all outside the city to an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:46 And the person who enters into the house during all the days that he confined it shall become unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 14:47 And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments.

Leviticus 14:48 “And if the priest comes again and examines the house and if the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed.

Leviticus 14:49 And he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a crimson thread and hyssop to cleanse the house;

Leviticus 14:50 and he shall slaughter the first bird over fresh water on a clay vessel.

Leviticus 14:51 Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the crimson thread and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird’s blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them on the house seven times.

Leviticus 14:52 Thus he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread.

Leviticus 14:53 And he shall send the living bird outside the city into the open field; and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

Leviticus 14:54 “This is the instruction for any infectious skin disease and for the diseased area of skin,

Leviticus 14:55 and for a mildew of the garment and for the house,

Leviticus 14:56 and for the swelling and for the epidermal eruption and for the spot,

Leviticus 14:57 to teach when something is unclean and when something is clean. This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease.”

Leviticus 15:1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Leviticus 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and you shall say to them, ‘Any man when a fluid discharge occurs from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean.

Leviticus 15:3 And this becomes his uncleanness in his fluid discharge: whether his body secretes his fluid discharge or his body blocks his fluid discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Leviticus 15:4 Any bed upon which the person who discharges lies down becomes unclean, and any object upon which he sits becomes unclean.

Leviticus 15:5 And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:6 And the person who sits on the object upon which the person who discharges has sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:7 And the person who touches the body of the person who discharges must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:8 And if the person who discharges spits on one who is clean, then that one shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:9 And any saddle upon which the person who discharges rides becomes unclean.

Leviticus 15:10 And any person who touches anything that happened to be under him becomes unclean until the evening, and the person who carries them must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:11 And anyone whom the person who discharges might touch without rinsing off his hands with water shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:12 But a clay vessel that the person who discharges touches must be broken, and any wood object must be rinsed with water.

Leviticus 15:13 “ ‘And when the person who discharges becomes clean from his body fluid discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing; then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with fresh water, and he shall be clean.

Leviticus 15:14 Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young doves, and he shall come before Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance, and he shall give them to the priest.

Leviticus 15:15 And the priest shall sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh from his body fluid discharge.

GOSPEL READING Matthew 17:14-18:14 (28 verses)

Matthew 17:14 And when they came to the crowd, a man approached him, kneeling down before him

Matthew 17:15 and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely, for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

Matthew 17:16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they were not able to heal him.”

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!”

Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him and the boy was healed from that hour.

Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, Why were we not able to expel it?”

Matthew 17:20 And he said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 17:22 Now as they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men,

Matthew 17:23 and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they were extremely distressed.

Matthew 17:24 Now when they arrived in Capernaum, the ones who collected the double drachma tax came up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the double drachma tax?”

Matthew 17:25 He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes—from their own sons, or from foreigners?”

Matthew 17:26 And when he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.

Matthew 17:27 But so that we do not give offense to them, go out to the sea, cast a line with a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And when you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

Matthew 18:1 At that time the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

Matthew 18:2 And calling a child to himself, he had him stand in their midst

Matthew 18:3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!

Matthew 18:4 Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

Matthew 18:5 and whoever welcomes one child such as this in my name welcomes me.

Matthew 18:6 But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him that a large millstone be hung on his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for it is a necessity that causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes.

Matthew 18:8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire!

Matthew 18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be thrown into fiery hell!

Matthew 18:10 “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:12 What do you think? If a certain man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that wandered away?

Matthew 18:13 And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not wander away.

Matthew 18:14 In the same way it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.