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First Reading

Numbers 13:1-2, 25--14:1, 26-29, 34-35

1The LORD said to Moses,

2“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.”

25At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

26And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

28Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

29The Amalʹekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebʹusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

30But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

31Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

32So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

33And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

1Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.

26And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

27“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.

28Say to them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

34According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

35I, the LORD, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 106:6-7, 13-14, 21-23

6Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

7Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider thy wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of thy steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.

13But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

14But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.

23Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Gospel

Matthew 15:21-28

21And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

22And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”

23But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.”

24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

25But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

26And he answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

27She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.