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Bacaan Pertama

Kejadian: 1: 1-2: 2

1:1	Pada permulaan, Allah menciptakan langit dan bumi.
1:2	Tetapi bumi itu kosong dan tidak berpenghuni, dan kegelapan menutupi muka jurang itu; maka Roh Tuhan dibawa ke atas air.
1:3	Dan Tuhan berkata, “Biarlah ada cahaya.” Dan cahaya menjadi.
1:4	Dan Tuhan melihat cahaya itu, bahawa ia adalah baik; maka ia memisahkan terang dari kegelapan.
1:5	Dan dia memanggil cahaya itu, ‘Hari,’ dan kegelapan, ‘Malam.’ Dan ia menjadi petang dan pagi, satu hari.
1:6	Allah juga berfirman, “Hendaklah ada cakrawala di tengah-tengah air, dan hendaklah ia memisahkan air dari air.”
1:7	Dan Allah menjadikan cakrawala, dan dia membahagikan air yang berada di bawah cakrawala, daripada mereka yang berada di atas cakrawala. Dan jadilah ia.
1:8	Dan Tuhan menamai cakrawala itu ‘Syurga.’ Dan menjadi petang dan pagi, hari kedua.
1:9	Sungguh Allah berfirman: “Hendaklah air yang ada di bawah langit berkumpul di satu tempat; dan biarkan tanah yang kering itu kelihatan.” Dan jadilah ia.
1:10	Dan Tuhan menamai tanah yang kering, ‘Bumi,’ dan dia memanggil kumpulan air itu, ‘Laut.’ Dan Tuhan melihat bahawa ia baik.
1:11	Dan dia berkata, “Biarlah tanah menumbuhkan tumbuhan hijau, kedua-duanya yang menghasilkan benih, dan pokok berbuah, menghasilkan buah mengikut jenisnya, yang benihnya ada dalam dirinya, atas seluruh bumi.” Dan jadilah ia.
1:12	Dan tanah itu menumbuhkan tumbuhan hijau, kedua-duanya yang menghasilkan benih, mengikut jenis mereka, dan pokok yang mengeluarkan buah, dengan masing-masing mempunyai cara menyemai sendiri, mengikut spesiesnya. Dan Tuhan melihat bahawa ia adalah baik.
1:13	Dan menjadi petang dan pagi, hari ketiga.
1:14	Kemudian Allah berfirman: “Hendaklah ada cahaya di cakrawala langit. Dan hendaklah mereka membahagikan siang dan malam, dan hendaklah ia menjadi tanda, kedua-dua musim, dan tentang hari dan tahun.
1:15	Biarlah mereka bersinar di cakrawala langit dan menerangi bumi.” Dan jadilah ia.
1:16	Dan Allah menjadikan dua cahaya yang besar: cahaya yang lebih besar, untuk memerintah hari ini, dan cahaya yang kurang, untuk memerintah malam, bersama bintang.
1:17	Dan dia meletakkan mereka di cakrawala langit, untuk menerangi seluruh bumi,
1:18	dan memerintah siang dan malam, dan untuk memisahkan cahaya dari kegelapan. Dan Tuhan melihat bahawa ia adalah baik.
1:19	Dan ia menjadi petang dan pagi, hari keempat.
1:20	Dan kemudian Allah berfirman, “Hendaklah air menghasilkan binatang yang bernyawa, dan makhluk terbang di atas bumi, di bawah cakrawala langit.”
1:21	Dan Allah menciptakan makhluk laut yang besar, dan segala sesuatu dengan jiwa yang hidup dan keupayaan untuk bergerak yang dihasilkan oleh air, mengikut spesies mereka, dan semua makhluk terbang, mengikut jenis mereka. Dan Tuhan melihat bahawa ia adalah baik.
1:22	Dan dia memberkati mereka, berkata: “Bertambah dan berlipat ganda, dan memenuhi air laut. Dan biarlah burung-burung itu bertambah banyak di atas bumi.”
1:23	Dan ia menjadi petang dan pagi, hari kelima.
1:24	Allah juga berfirman, “Biarlah tanah menghasilkan jiwa-jiwa yang hidup mengikut jenis mereka: lembu, dan haiwan, dan binatang buas di bumi, mengikut spesies mereka.” Dan jadilah ia.
1:25	Dan Tuhan menjadikan binatang buas di bumi mengikut spesies mereka, dan lembu, dan setiap binatang di darat, mengikut jenisnya. Dan Tuhan melihat bahawa ia adalah baik.
1:26	Dan dia berkata: “Marilah kita jadikan Manusia menurut imej dan rupa kita. Dan hendaklah dia memerintah atas ikan-ikan di laut, dan makhluk terbang di udara, dan binatang buas, dan seluruh bumi, dan setiap binatang yang merayap di bumi.”
1:27	Dan Tuhan menciptakan manusia menurut gambarnya sendiri; menurut gambar Allah dia menciptakan dia; lelaki dan perempuan, Dia menciptakan mereka.
1:28	Dan Allah memberkati mereka, dan dia berkata, “Bertambah dan berlipat ganda, dan memenuhi bumi, dan taklukkannya, dan berkuasa atas ikan-ikan di laut, dan makhluk terbang di udara, dan atas setiap makhluk hidup yang bergerak di atas bumi.”
1:29	Dan Tuhan berkata: “Lihatlah, Aku telah memberikan kepadamu setiap tumbuhan yang berbiji di atas bumi, dan semua pokok yang mempunyai keupayaan untuk menyemai jenis mereka sendiri, untuk menjadi makanan untuk anda,
1:30	dan untuk semua binatang di bumi, dan untuk semua benda terbang di udara, dan untuk segala yang bergerak di atas bumi dan di dalamnya terdapat jiwa yang hidup, supaya mereka mempunyai ini sebagai makanan." Dan jadilah ia.
1:31	Dan Allah melihat segala yang telah dijadikan-Nya. Dan mereka sangat baik. Dan ia menjadi petang dan pagi, hari keenam.

Kejadian 2

2:1	Maka sempurnalah langit dan bumi, dengan segala perhiasannya.
2:2	Dan pada hari ketujuh, Allah menunaikan tugasnya, yang telah dibuatnya. Dan pada hari ketujuh dia berhenti dari segala pekerjaannya, yang telah dicapainya.

Bacaan Kedua

Kejadian: 22: 1-18

22:1	Selepas perkara-perkara ini berlaku, Allah menguji Abraham, dan dia berkata kepadanya, “Abraham, Ibrahim.” Dan dia menjawab, "Saya di sini."
22:2	Dia berkata kepadanya: “Ambillah anakmu yang tunggal Ishak, yang awak sayang, dan pergi ke negeri penglihatan. Dan di sana kamu harus mempersembahkan dia sebagai korban bakaran di atas salah satu gunung, yang akan Kutunjukkan kepadamu.”
22:3	Dan begitu juga Abraham, bangun malam, memanfaatkan keldainya, membawa bersamanya dua orang pemuda, dan Ishak anaknya. Dan apabila dia telah memotong kayu untuk holocaust, dia mengembara ke arah tempat itu, sebagaimana yang diperintahkan Allah kepadanya.
22:4	Kemudian, pada hari ketiga, mengangkat matanya, dia melihat tempat itu dari jauh.
22:5	Dan dia berkata kepada hamba-hambanya: “Tunggu di sini dengan keldai. Saya dan budak itu akan bergegas lebih jauh ke hadapan ke tempat itu. Selepas kita beribadat, akan kembali kepada kamu.”
22:6	Dia juga mengambil kayu untuk holocaust, dan dia mengenakannya kepada Ishak, anaknya. Dan dia sendiri membawa api dan pedang di tangannya. Dan apabila kedua-duanya terus bersama,
22:7	Ishak berkata kepada bapanya, "Ayah saya." Dan dia menjawab, "Apa yang kamu mahu, anak lelaki?” “Lihatlah,” katanya, “api dan kayu. Di mana mangsa untuk holocaust?”
22:8	Tetapi Abraham berkata, “Tuhan sendiri akan menyediakan mangsa untuk holocaust, anak lelaki saya." Oleh itu mereka terus bersama-sama.
22:9	Dan mereka sampai ke tempat yang telah ditunjukkan Allah kepadanya. Di sana dia membina mezbah, dan dia menyusun kayu di atasnya. Dan apabila dia telah mengikat anaknya Ishak, dia meletakkannya di atas mezbah di atas timbunan kayu.
22:10	Dan dia menghulurkan tangannya dan memegang pedang itu, untuk mengorbankan anaknya.
22:11	Dan lihatlah, seorang Malaikat Tuhan berseru dari syurga, berkata, “Abraham, Ibrahim.” Dan dia menjawab, "Saya di sini."
22:12	Dan dia berkata kepadanya, “Jangan hulurkan tangan ke atas budak itu, dan jangan berbuat apa-apa kepadanya. Sekarang saya tahu bahawa anda takut kepada Tuhan, kerana engkau tidak menyayangkan anak lelakimu yang tunggal demi Aku.”
22:13	Abraham mengangkat matanya, dan dia melihat di belakangnya seekor domba jantan di antara semak duri, ditangkap oleh tanduk, yang diambilnya dan dipersembahkan sebagai holocaust, bukannya anaknya.
22:14	Dan dia memanggil nama tempat itu: ‘Tuhan Melihat.’ Maka, malah sehingga ke hari ini, dikatakan: ‘Di atas gunung, Tuhan akan melihat.’
22:15	Kemudian Malaikat Tuhan berseru kepada Abraham untuk kedua kalinya dari syurga, berkata:
22:16	“Dengan diri saya sendiri, Saya telah bersumpah, firman Tuhan. Kerana anda telah melakukan perkara ini, dan tidak mengampuni anak lelaki tunggalmu demi Aku,
22:17	Saya akan memberkati awak, dan Aku akan memperbanyakkan keturunanmu seperti bintang di langit, dan seperti pasir yang berada di tepi laut. Keturunanmu akan memiliki pintu gerbang musuh mereka.
22:18	Dan pada keturunanmu, semua bangsa di bumi akan diberkati, kerana kamu menuruti suaraku.”

Third Reading

Keluaran: 14: 15- 15: 1

14:15	And the Lord said to Moses: “Why cry out to me? Tell the sons of Israel to continue on.
14:16	Sekarang, lift up your staff, and extend your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the sons of Israel may walk through the midst of the sea on dry ground.
14:17	Then I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, so as to pursue you. And I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.
14:18	And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in his chariots, as well as in his horsemen.”
14:19	And the Angel of God, who preceded the camp of Israel, lifting himself up, went behind them. And the pillar of cloud, together with him, left the front for the rear
14:20	and stood between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And it was a dark cloud, yet it illuminated the night, so that they could not succeed at approaching one another at any time all that night.
14:21	And when Moses had extended his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by an intense burning wind, blowing throughout the night, and he turned it into dry ground. And the water was divided.
14:22	And the sons of Israel went in through the midst of the dried sea. For the water was like a wall at their right hand and at their left hand.
14:23	And the Egyptians, pursuing them, went in after them, along with all of the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea.
14:24	And now the morning watch had arrived, dan lihatlah, Tuhan, looking down upon the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, put to death their army.
14:25	And he overturned the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. Oleh itu, the Egyptians said: “Let us flee from Israel. For the Lord fights on their behalf against us.”
14:26	And the Lord said to Moses: “Extend your hand over the sea, so that the waters may return on the Egyptians, over their chariots and horsemen.”
14:27	And when Moses had extended his hand opposite the sea, it was returned, at first light, to its former place. And the fleeing Egyptians met with the waters, and the Lord immersed them in the midst of the waves.
14:28	And the waters were returned, and they covered the chariots and horsemen of the entire army of Pharaoh, WHO, in following, had entered into the sea. And not so much as one of them was left alive.
14:29	But the sons of Israel continued directly through the midst of the dried sea, and the waters were to them like a wall on the right and on the left.
14:30	And so the Lord freed Israel on that day from the hand of the Egyptians.
14:31	And they saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea and the great hand that the Lord had exercised against them. And the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in Moses his servant.

Keluaran 15

15:1	Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, dan mereka berkata: “Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been gloriously magnified: the horse and the rider he has cast into the sea.

Fourth Reading

Yesaya 54: 5-14

54:5	For the One who made you will rule over you. The Lord of hosts is his name. And your Redeemer, Yang Mahakudus dari Israel, will be called the God of all the earth.
54:6	For the Lord has called you, like a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and like a wife rejected in her youth, said your God.
54:7	For a brief moment, I have forsaken you, and with great pities, I will gather you.
54:8	In a moment of indignation, I have hidden my face from you, for a little while. But with everlasting mercy, I have taken pity on you, said your Redeemer, Tuhan.
54:9	For me, it is just as in the days of Noah, to whom I swore that I would no longer bring in the waters of Noah over the earth. Thus have I sworn not to be angry with you, and not to rebuke you.
54:10	For the mountains will be moved, and the hills will tremble. But my mercy will not depart from you, and the covenant of my peace will not be shaken, said the Lord, who has compassion on you.
54:11	O poor little ones, convulsed by the tempest, away from any consolation! Lihatlah, I will set your stones in order, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires,
54:12	and I will make your ramparts out of jasper, and your gates out of sculpted stones, and all your borders out of desirable stones.
54:13	All your children will be taught by the Lord. And great will be the peace of your children.
54:14	And you will be founded in justice. Depart far from oppression, for you will not be afraid. And depart from terror, for it will not approach you.

Fifth Reading

Yesaya 55: 1-11

55:1	All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.
55:2	Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and expend your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen very closely to me, and eat what is good, and then your soul will be delighted by a full measure.
55:3	Incline your ear and draw near to me. Dengar, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, by the faithful mercies of David.
55:4	Lihatlah, I have presented him as a witness to the people, as a commander and instructor to the nations.
55:5	Lihatlah, you will call to a nation that you did not know. And nations that did not know you will rush to you, because of the Lord your God, Yang Mahakudus dari Israel. For he has glorified you.
55:6	Carilah Tuhan, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near.
55:7	Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.
55:8	For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, firman Tuhan.
55:9	For just as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so also are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
55:10	And in the same manner as rain and snow descend from heaven, and no longer return there, but soak the earth, and water it, and cause it to bloom and to provide seed to the sower and bread to the hungry,
55:11	so also will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish whatever I will, and it will prosper in the tasks for which I sent it.

Sixth Reading

Baruch 3: 9-15, 32- 4: 4

3:9	Dengar, Israel, to the commandments of life! Pay attention, so that you may learn prudence!
3:10	How is it, Israel, that you are in the land of your enemies,
3:11	that you have grown old in a foreign land, that you are defiled with the dead, that you are regarded as among those who are descending into hell?
3:12	You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
3:13	For if you had walked in the way of God, you would certainly have lived in everlasting peace.
3:14	Learn where prudence is, where virtue is, where understanding is, so that you may know at the same time where long life and prosperity are, where the light of the eyes and peace are.
3:15	Who has discovered its place? And who has entered its treasure chamber?
3:32	Yet he who knows the universe is familiar with her, and in his foresight he invented her, he who prepared the earth for time without end, and filled it with cattle and four-footed beasts,
3:33	who sends out the light, and it goes, and who summoned it, and it obeyed him in fear.
3:34	Yet the stars have given light from their posts, and they rejoiced.
3:35	They were called, and so they said, “Here we are,” and they shined with cheerfulness to him who made them.
3:36	This is our God, and no other can compare to him.
3:37	He invented the way of all instruction, and delivered it to Jacob his child, and to Israel his beloved.
3:38	Selepas ini, he was seen on earth, and he conversed with men.

Baruch 4

4:1	“ ‘This is the book of the commandments of God and of the law, which exists in eternity. All those who keep it will attain to life, but those who have forsaken it, to death.
4:2	Convert, O Jacob, and embrace it, walk in the way of its splendor, facing its light.
4:3	Do not surrender your glory to another, nor your value to a foreign people.
4:4	We have been happy, Israel, because the things that are pleasing to God have been made clear to us.

Seventh Reading

Yehezkiel 36: 16-28

36:16	And the word of the Lord came to me, berkata:
36:17	“Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
36:18	And so I poured out my indignation upon them, because of the blood which they shed upon the land, and because they defiled it with their idols.
36:19	And I dispersed them among the Gentiles, and they have been scattered among the lands. I have judged them according to their ways and their plans.
36:20	And when they walked among the Gentiles, to whom they had entered, they defiled my holy name, though it was being said about them: ‘This is the people of the Lord,’ and ‘They went forth from his land.’
36:21	But I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel has defiled among the Gentiles, to whom they entered.
36:22	Atas sebab ini, you shall say to the house of Israel: Demikianlah firman Tuhan Allah: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.
36:23	And I will sanctify my great name, which was defiled among the Gentiles, which you have defiled in their midst. So may the Gentiles know that I am the Lord, firman Tuhan semesta alam, when I will have been sanctified in you, before their eyes.
36:24	Sudah tentu, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land.
36:25	And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
36:26	And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
36:27	And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.
36:28	And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, dan Aku akan menjadi Tuhanmu.

Epistle

Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 6: 3-11

6:3	Tidakkah kamu tahu bahawa kita yang telah dibaptis dalam Kristus Yesus telah dibaptis dalam kematian-Nya?
6:4	Kerana melalui pembaptisan kita telah dikuburkan bersama-sama dengan Dia ke dalam kematian, supaya, dengan cara Kristus bangkit daripada kematian, oleh kemuliaan Bapa, jadi semoga kita juga berjalan dalam kehidupan yang baru.
6:5	Kerana jika kita telah ditanam bersama, dalam perumpamaan kematiannya, begitu juga kita, serupa dengan kebangkitan-Nya.
6:6	Kerana kita tahu ini: bahawa diri kita dahulu telah disalib bersama-sama dengan dia, supaya tubuh yang berdosa itu binasa, dan lebih-lebih lagi, supaya kita tidak lagi mengabdi kepada dosa.
6:7	Kerana dia yang telah mati telah dibenarkan daripada dosa.
6:8	Sekarang jika kita telah mati bersama Kristus, kami percaya bahawa kami juga akan hidup bersama-sama dengan Kristus.
6:9	Kerana kita tahu bahawa Kristus, dalam bangkit dari kematian, tidak boleh mati lagi: kematian tidak lagi berkuasa atasnya.
6:10	Kerana dalam sebanyak dia mati untuk dosa, dia mati sekali. Tetapi sepanjang dia hidup, dia hidup untuk Tuhan.
6:11	Dan juga, kamu hendaklah menganggap diri kamu sudah pasti mati kepada dosa, dan hidup untuk Allah dalam Kristus Yesus, Tuhan kita.

Injil

Injil Suci Menurut Lukas 24: 1-12

24:1	Kemudian, on the first Sabbath, at very first light, they went to the tomb, carrying the aromatic spices that they had prepared.
24:2	And they found the stone rolled back from the tomb.
24:3	And upon entering, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
24:4	Dan ia berlaku begitu, while their minds were still confused about this, lihatlah, two men stood beside them, in shining apparel.
24:5	Kemudian, since they were afraid and were turning their faces toward the ground, these two said to them: “Why do you seek the living with the dead?
24:6	He is not here, for he has risen. Recall how he spoke to you, when he was still in Galilee,
24:7	berkata: ‘For the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’ ”
24:8	And they called to mind his words.
24:9	And returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven, and to all the others.
24:10	Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women who were with them, who told these things to the Apostles.
24:11	But these words seemed to them a delusion. And so they did not believe them.
24:12	But Peter, bangkit, ran to the tomb. And stooping down, he saw the linen cloths positioned alone, and he went away wondering to himself about what had happened.