First Reading
Exodus 19:2-6a
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
19:2For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.
3And Moses went up to God: and the Lord called to him from the mountain, and said: Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
4You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.
5If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
6And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. Those are the words you shall speak to the children of Israel.