"Ledavid Mizmor" (Tehillim 24) God of Nature, God of Unfolding History

It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Yehuda said in the name of Rabbi Akiva: On the first day of the week, Sunday, what psalm would the Levites recite? The psalm beginning with the phrase: “The earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness” (Psalms 24:1) because A) He acquired the world and B) transferred it to man, andC) rulesin His world.

(1)A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell in it. (2) For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

(4) Such is the story of heaven and earth when they were created. When God ה׳ made earth and heaven—

... When he places the lot on the goat of the sin-offering, he proclaims: "A sin-offering for HaShem." ...

(2) The Earth is saying: “A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell in it.”

(3) Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? (4) He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not taken my name in vain, nor sworn deceitfully. (5) He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. (6) This is Ya῾aqov, the generation of those who seek him, that seek Thy face. (Sela.)

In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Miżrayim, speaking the language of Kena῾an and swearing by the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

(31) Early in the morning, they exchanged oaths. Isaac then bade them farewell, and they departed from him in peace.

(14) Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants.

(11) One such day, he came into the house to do his work. None of the household being there inside,

(7) Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (8) Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. (9) Lift up your heads, O you gates; and lift them up, you everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in. (10) Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. (Sela.)

(1) The two messengers arrived in Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to greet them and, bowing low with his face to the ground,

(1) Meanwhile, Boaz had gone to the gate and sat down there. And now the redeemer whom Boaz had mentioned passed by. He called, “Come over and sit down here, So-and-so!” And he came over and sat down.

(6) And Moshe and Aharon said to all the children of Yisra᾽el, At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Miżrayim: (7)

and in the morning, you shall see the glory of the Lord when he hears your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that you murmur against us? ... (11) And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying, (12) I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra᾽el: speak to them, saying, At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. (13) And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. (14) And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a fine flaky substance, as fine as the hoar frost on the ground.

(2) But Pharaoh said, “Who is ה׳ that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know ה׳, nor will I let Israel go.”

(1) The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array.

(23) Record them from the age of thirty years up to the age of fifty, all who are subject to service in the performance of tasks for the Tent of Meeting.

(8) And he made the laver of brass, and its pedestal of brass, of the mirrors of the women assembling, who assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.