And the Lord commanded the whale, and it spewed Jonah onto dry land. And the word of the Lord came again to Jonah, and said: “Arise and go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach therein according to the first commandment which I spoke to you.” And Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, as the Lord told him. Nineveh was a great city of God, about three days' journey. And Jonah began to walk around the city, as far as he could go in one day, and preached, saying: Three more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown. And the men of Nineveh believed God, and appointed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. And this word reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, and took off his robe, and put on sackcloth, and sat down on ashes. And it was announced and proclaimed in Nineveh by the king and his nobles and it was said: people, and cattle, and oxen, and sheep must not eat anything, nor go to pasture, nor drink water.
And people and cattle dressed in hair shirts, and diligently cried out to God, and each turned from his evil way and from the iniquity of his hands, and said: “Who knows, maybe God will have compassion and be merciful and turn away from the wrath of His indignation, and we will not perish”? And God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked ways, and God repented of the disaster that he had spoken of to send upon them, but did not send. And Jonah was saddened with great sorrow and was troubled. And he prayed to the Lord and said: “O Lord! Were these not the words which I spoke while I was still on my land? Therefore, I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that You are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering and abounding in mercy, and compassionate about the misfortunes of people. And now, Sovereign Lord, take my soul from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said to Jonah: “Are you really so upset?” And Jonah said: “I was very sad, even to the point of death.” And Jonah went out of the city and sat down opposite the city, and built himself a hut there and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
And God commanded the pumpkin to grow, and it grew over Jonah’s head, so that there would be a shadow over his head to protect him from his suffering, and Jonah rejoiced greatly at this pumpkin. And the Lord God commanded the worm early in the morning, and he gnawed at the pumpkin, and it withered. And it happened soon: when the sun rose, God commanded a hot, burning wind to blow, and the sun began to hit Jonah’s head, and he began to be cowardly and renounce his life, and said: “It is better for me to die than to live!” And the Lord God said to Jonah: “Are you really so sad about the pumpkin?” And Jonah said: “I was very sad, even to the point of death.” And the Lord said to Jonah: “You regret the pumpkin that you did not work on, that you did not grow, that grew overnight and died overnight; Shall I not have pity on Nineveh, a great city, in which live more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish their right hand from their left, and they have many livestock?”
Joshua reading (Joshua 5:10–15).
The children of Israel encamped in Gilgaleh, and held the Passover on the fourth and tenth day of the month from evening in the west on the field of Jericho. And the wheat of the land was poisoned, unleavened bread and new bread. On that day the manna ceased, having eaten from the wheat of the land, and who was not the son of Israel of the manna, but ate from the fruit of the land of Finish in that summer. And when Jesus was near Jericho, he looked with his eyes in the form of a man standing before him, and his sword was drawn in his hand. And Jesus came and said to him: Are you ours, or are you from our adversary? He said to him: I am the Archangel of the power of the Lord, now I have come. And Jesus fell with his face to the ground, and worshiped him, and said: Lord, what do you command your servant? And the Archangel of the Lord spoke to Jesus: take the boot from your foot, for the place where you are standing is holy: and Jesus will do likewise.
Reading Joshua [5:10–15]
The children of Israel settled down in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening, west of Jericho on the plain, on the other side of the Jordan. And they ate of the food of the earth on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and fresh food. The manna ceased the day after they ate the food of the earth, and there was no more manna for the children of Israel, but that year they ate the fruits of the Phoenician land. And it happened while Jesus was in Jericho that he lifted up his eyes and saw a man appearing and standing before him, and in his hand was a drawn sword. Jesus approached and said to him, “Are you one of ours or one of our adversaries?” The same one said to him: “I am the archangel, the commander-in-chief of the army of the Lord, and now I have come to help.” And, falling with his face to the ground, Jesus bowed to him and said: “Sir, what do you command your servant?” And the chief captain of the Lord said to Jesus: “Take off your shoes from your feet: for the place where you have stood and are standing on it is holy.” And Jesus did so.
Exodus reading (Exodus 13:20–22, 14:1–32, 15:1–19).