Bible Reading
May 6
The World English Bible
May
5
Deuteronomy
25, 26
Deu
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the
wicked;
Deu
25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deu
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your
brother should seem vile to you.
Deu
25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
grain.
Deu
25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as
wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Deu
25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in
the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out
of Israel.
Deu
25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in
Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
Deu
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Deu
25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man
who does not build up his brother's house.
Deu
25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has
his shoe untied.
Deu
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
Deu
25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
Deu
25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small.
Deu
25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and
a small.
Deu
25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a
perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
25:16 For all who do such things, even
all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth
out of Egypt;
Deu
25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all
who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he
didn't fear God.
Deu
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest
from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out
the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
Deu
26:1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
Deu
26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there.
Deu
26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and
tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
Deu
26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it
down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned
there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous.
Deu
26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on
us hard bondage:
Deu
26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression;
Deu
26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs,
and with wonders;
Deu
26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this
land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the
ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has
given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you.
Deu
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Deu
26:13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and
to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to
all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not
transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deu
26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away
of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened
to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you
have commanded me.
Deu
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:16 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
Deu
26:17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you
would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
Deu
26:18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all
his commandments;
Deu
26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people
to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
May
6
Deuteronomy
27, 28
Deu
27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
27:2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself
up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
Deu
27:3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you
have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, has promised you.
Deu
27:4 It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you
shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount
Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
Deu
27:5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of
stones: you shall lift up no iron tool
on them.
Deu
27:6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones;
and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
Deu
27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very
plainly.
Deu
27:9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying,
Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people
of Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do
his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
Deu
27:11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
Deu
27:12 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deu
27:13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad,
and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deu
27:14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with
a loud voice,
Deu
27:15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an
abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Deu
27:16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice due
to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has
uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people
shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:24 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:26 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do
them. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
28:1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of
Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth:
Deu
28:2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if
you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in
the field.
Deu
28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of
your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your
livestock, and the young of your flock.
Deu
28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
Deu
28:6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed
when you go out.
Deu
28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will
flee before you seven ways.
Deu
28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in
all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
28:9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he
has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God, and walk in his ways.
Deu
28:10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by
the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
Deu
28:11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your
body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu
28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give
the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of
your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not
borrow.
Deu
28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall
be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to
the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to
observe and to do them,
Deu
28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command
you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them.
Deu
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall
come on you, and overtake you.
Deu
28:16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in
the field.
Deu
28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
Deu
28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase
of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
Deu
28:19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed
when you go out.
Deu
28:20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all
that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you
perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have
forsaken me.
Deu
28:21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has
consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and
with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with
blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deu
28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under you shall be iron.
Deu
28:24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from
the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
Deu
28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you
shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before
them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms
of the earth.
Deu
28:26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to
the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them
away.
Deu
28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the
tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not
be healed.
Deu
28:28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and
with astonishment of heart;
Deu
28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in
darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be
only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save
you.
Deu
28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall
plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
Deu
28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat
of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
Deu
28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people;
and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day:
and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
Deu
28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation
which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and
crushed always;
Deu
28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head.
Deu
28:36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over
you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and
there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deu
28:37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
Deu
28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deu
28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall
neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
Deu
28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but
you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast
its fruit.
Deu
28:41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be
yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Deu
28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust
possess.
Deu
28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
Deu
28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Deu
28:45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and
overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to
the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded you:
Deu
28:46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on
your seed forever.
Deu
28:47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deu
28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want
of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he
has destroyed you.
Deu
28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end
of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall
not understand;
Deu
28:50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
Deu
28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of
your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you
grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young
of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deu
28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your
land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all
your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deu
28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in
the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress
you.
Deu
28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye
shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
Deu
28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the
siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in
all your gates.
Deu
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness
and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her
bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Deu
28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet,
and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them
for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
Deu
28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful
name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
Deu
28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues
of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore
sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deu
28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which
you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.
Deu
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are
destroyed.
Deu
28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars
of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:63 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause
you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off
the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall
serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers,
even wood and stone.
Deu
28:65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be
no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
Deu
28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Deu
28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and at
evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way
of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you
shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for
bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
May
6, 7
Luke
20
Luk
20:1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people
in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and
scribes came to him with the elders.
Luk
20:2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do
these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
Luk
20:3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell
me:
Luk
20:4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
Luk
20:5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
Luk
20:6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for
they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
Luk
20:7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
Luk
20:8 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what
authority I do these things."
Luk
20:9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a
vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another
country for a long time.
Luk
20:10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to
collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat
him, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and
treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luk
20:12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him
out.
Luk
20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send
my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
Luk
20:14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.'
Luk
20:15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
Luk
20:16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the
vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it
never be!"
Luk
20:17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that
is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made
the chief cornerstone?'
Luk
20:18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but
it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
Luk
20:19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him
that very hour, but they feared the people-for they knew he had
spoken this parable against them.
Luk
20:20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be
righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to
deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Luk
20:21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach
what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way
of God.
Luk
20:22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
Luk
20:23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why
do you test me?
Luk
20:24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
They answered, "Caesar's."
Luk
20:25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
Luk
20:26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people.
They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
Luk
20:27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there
is a resurrection.
Luk
20:28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a
man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother
should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
Luk
20:29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife,
and died childless.
Luk
20:30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
Luk
20:31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no
children, and died.
Luk
20:32 Afterward the woman also died.
Luk
20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be?
For the seven had her as a wife."
Luk
20:34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and
are given in marriage.
Luk
20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and
the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage.
Luk
20:36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and
are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Luk
20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush,
when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.'
Luk
20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all
are alive to him."
Luk
20:39 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
Luk
20:40 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
Luk
20:41 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is
David's son?
Luk
20:42 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my
Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Luk
20:43 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet." '
Luk
20:44 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
Luk
20:45 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
Luk
20:46 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes,
and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the
synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
Luk
20:47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
The
Outback of Australia is home to this magnificent bird. The hot
temperatures and dry climate do not deter the mallee, though. During its
mating season, the male will create for its partner’s eggs a nest that
has an average circumference of seventy feet, and is over three feet in
height.
But
building a nest is only half the battle. The other half involves
temperature maintenance in the mound. This job, once again, is left to
the male mallee. Several times a day, the male inserts his beak into the
pile of debris and sand. He proceeds to stick out his tongue, which is
such a good thermometer that it can measure a temperature change as
small as 1/10 of a degree! After assessing the temperature, the
male can act accordingly. If the nest is too hot, he can remove some of
the sand that is covering the nest. If the nest becomes too cold, then
the male can insert sticks to produce more heat, and add sand to
insulate the mound from the surroundings. The temperature must be kept
at exactly 33 degrees Celsius, and this medium must be maintained to
within one degree in order for the unborn chicks to survive while still
in the nest.