Bible Reading
August 4
The World English Bible
Aug.
4
Ezra
1-3
Ezr
1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred
up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom, and put it
also in writing, saying,
Ezr
1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has commanded me to
build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezr
1:3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with
him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the
house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in
Jerusalem.
Ezr
1:4 Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of
his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and
with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God
which is in Jerusalem.
Ezr
1:5 Then rose up the heads of fathers' houses
of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all
whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh
which is in Jerusalem.
Ezr
1:6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with
vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with
precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
Ezr
1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and
had put in the house of his gods;
Ezr
1:8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the
prince of Judah.
Ezr
1:9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one
thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
Ezr
1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four
hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
Ezr
1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and
four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the
captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Ezr
2:1 Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of
the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to
Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
Ezr
2:2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the
men of the people of Israel:
Ezr
2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Ezr
2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
Ezr
2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
Ezr
2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and
Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
Ezr
2:7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Ezr
2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.
Ezr
2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
Ezr
2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
Ezr
2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
Ezr
2:12 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.
Ezr
2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.
Ezr
2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
Ezr
2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
Ezr
2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
Ezr
2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
Ezr
2:18 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
Ezr
2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three.
Ezr
2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
Ezr
2:21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
Ezr
2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
Ezr
2:23 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
Ezr
2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
Ezr
2:25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
hundred forty-three.
Ezr
2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
Ezr
2:27 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
Ezr
2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
Ezr
2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
Ezr
2:30 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
Ezr
2:31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred
fifty-four.
Ezr
2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
Ezr
2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
Ezr
2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
Ezr
2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
Ezr
2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy-three.
Ezr
2:37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
Ezr
2:38 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
Ezr
2:39 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
Ezr
2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the
children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
Ezr
2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
Ezr
2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred
thirty-nine.
Ezr
2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha,
the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezr
2:44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of
Padon,
Ezr
2:45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children
of Akkub,
Ezr
2:46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of
Hanan,
Ezr
2:47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of
Reaiah,
Ezr
2:48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
Gazzam,
Ezr
2:49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of
Besai,
Ezr
2:50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephisim,
Ezr
2:51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children
of Harhur,
Ezr
2:52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children
of Harsha,
Ezr
2:53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of
Temah,
Ezr
2:54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezr
2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the
children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
Ezr
2:56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of
Giddel,
Ezr
2:57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
Ezr
2:58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were
three hundred ninety-two.
Ezr
2:59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha,
Cherub, Addan, and
Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed,
whether they were of Israel:
Ezr
2:60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children
of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
Ezr
2:61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the
children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their
name.
Ezr
2:62 These sought their register among
those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found:
therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
Ezr
2:63 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most
holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with
Thummim.
Ezr
2:64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three
hundred sixty,
Ezr
2:65 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom
there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had
two hundred singing men and singing women.
Ezr
2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two
hundred forty-five;
Ezr
2:67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their
donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Ezr
2:68 Some of the heads of fathers' houses,
when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered
willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
Ezr
2:69 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work
sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver,
and one hundred priests' garments.
Ezr
2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and
the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their
cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Ezr
3:1 When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were
in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to
Jerusalem.
Ezr
3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the
priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and
built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings
thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezr
3:3 They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of
the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings
thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezr
3:4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered
the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as
the duty of every day required;
Ezr
3:5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, and the
offerings of the new moons, and of all
the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who
willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh.
Ezr
3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer
burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh
was not yet laid.
Ezr
3:7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and
food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to
bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the
grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Ezr
3:8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at
Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their
brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out
of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty
years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house
of Yahweh.
Ezr
3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and
his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the
workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and
their brothers the Levites.
Ezr
3:10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh,
they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites
the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of
David king of Israel.
Ezr
3:11 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to
Yahweh, saying,
For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward
Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised
Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid.
Ezr
3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers'
houses, the
old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this
house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many
shouted aloud for joy:
Ezr
3:13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of
joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people
shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Aug.
3, 4
Acts
20
Act
20:1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took
leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
Act
20:2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them
with many words, he came into Greece.
Act
20:3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made
against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he
determined to return through Macedonia.
Act
20:4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea;
Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe;
Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Act
20:5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Act
20:6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened
Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven
days.
Act
20:7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered
together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart
on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
Act
20:8 There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were
gathered together.
Act
20:9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed
down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down
by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up
dead.
Act
20:10 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said,
"Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."
Act
20:11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had
talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
Act
20:12 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
Act
20:13 But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos,
intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged,
intending himself to go by land.
Act
20:14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to
Mitylene.
Act
20:15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios.
The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the
day after we came to Miletus.
Act
20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might
not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were
possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
Act
20:17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the
elders of the assembly.
Act
20:18 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You
yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I
was with you all the time,
Act
20:19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with
trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Act
20:20 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was
profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Act
20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God,
and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Act
20:22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not
knowing what will happen to me there;
Act
20:23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying
that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Act
20:24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to
myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which
I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of
the grace of God.
Act
20:25 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went
about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
Act
20:26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the
blood of all men,
Act
20:27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of
God.
Act
20:28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in
which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the
assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Act
20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter
in among you, not sparing the flock.
Act
20:30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse
things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Act
20:31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years
I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Act
20:32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance
among all those who are sanctified.
Act
20:33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
Act
20:34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities,
and those who were with me.
Act
20:35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you
ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "
Act
20:36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with
them all.
Act
20:37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
Act
20:38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken,
that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to
the ship.
According
to the First Law of Thermodynamics, nothing in the Universe (i.e.,
matter or energy) can pop into existence from nothing (see 
Example #1.
Perhaps one of the most celebrated—and appreciated—engineering designs
of the 20th century pertaining to thermodynamics is the air-conditioning
system. Briefly explained, an air-conditioning unit is a machine that
was designed to acquire a large quantity of air from a system (e.g., a
home or the interior of a car), remove heat from that air, and then
release the cooled air back into the system, while disposing of the heat
into a “heat sink” (e.g., the outdoors). Simply stated, this process
occurs through what many engineers call a vapor-compression
refrigeration cycle (Moran and Shapiro, 2000, p. 517)—a cycle heavily
rooted in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In this cycle, a fluid
(called a “refrigerant”) in “super-heated” vapor form flows through a
pipe and into a compressor where it is compressed into a hotter gas with
a higher pressure. From the compressor, the gas moves into the next
phase of the cycle, composed of a set of coils (a condenser). As the
refrigerant flows through the condenser, some of the heat is removed,
and the refrigerant condenses into a liquid. Moving through an expansion
valve, the refrigerant is “throttled” into a colder, lower-pressure
mixture of liquid and vapor.
