Bible Reading January 30 (World English Bible)
Genesis
30
Gen
30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied
her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will
die."
Gen
30:2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am
I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Gen
30:3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she
may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
Gen
30:4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to
her.
Gen
30:5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Gen
30:6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my
voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name
Dan.
Gen
30:7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a
second son.
Gen
30:8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
Gen
30:9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah,
her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen
30:10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.
Gen
30:11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
Gen
30:12 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.
Gen
30:13 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
happy." She named him Asher.
Gen
30:14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes
in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said
to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Gen
30:15 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have
taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?"
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your
son's mandrakes."
Gen
30:16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to
meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely
hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
Gen
30:17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a
fifth son.
Gen
30:18 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my
handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
Gen
30:19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Gen
30:20 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my
husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons."
She named him Zebulun.
Gen
30:21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
Gen
30:22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her
womb.
Gen
30:23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away
my reproach."
Gen
30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son
to me."
Gen
30:25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to
Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my
country.
Gen
30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you,
and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
Gen
30:27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your
eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for
your sake."
Gen
30:28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
Gen
30:29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how
your livestock have fared with me.
Gen
30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has
increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned.
Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
Gen
30:31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You
shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will
again feed your flock and keep it.
Gen
30:32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there
every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
Gen
30:33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you
come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not
speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that
might be with me, will be counted stolen."
Gen
30:34 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your
word."
Gen
30:35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and
spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted,
every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the
sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Gen
30:36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Gen
30:37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane
tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which
was in the rods.
Gen
30:38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the
gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They
conceived when they came to drink.
Gen
30:39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen
30:40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he
put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
Gen
30:41 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters,
that they might conceive among the rods;
Gen
30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Gen
30:43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female
servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Jan. 29,
30
Matthew 15
Mat 15:1
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
Mat 15:2
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For
they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
Mat 15:3
He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of
God because of your tradition?
Mat 15:4
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who
speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Mat 15:5
But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever
help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to
God,"
Mat 15:6
he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the
commandment of God void because of your tradition.
Mat 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Mat 15:8
'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with
their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Mat 15:9
And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by
men.' "
Mat 15:10
He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and
understand.
Mat 15:11
That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that
which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
Mat 15:12
Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the
Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
Mat 15:13
But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't
plant will be uprooted.
Mat 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind
guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
Mat 15:15
Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
Mat 15:16
So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?
Mat 15:17
Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into
the belly, and then out of the body?
Mat 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart,
and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Mat 15:20
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed
hands doesn't defile the man."
Mat 15:21
Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and
Sidon.
Mat 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried,
saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter
is severely demonized!"
Mat 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him,
saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
Mat 15:24
But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of
the house of Israel."
Mat 15:25
But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
Mat 15:26
But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's
bread and throw it to the dogs."
Mat 15:27
But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which
fall from their masters' table."
Mat 15:28
Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done
to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from
that hour.
Mat 15:29
Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he
went up into the mountain, and sat there.
Mat 15:30
Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute,
maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He
healed them,
Mat 15:31
so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking,
injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing-and they glorified the
God of Israel.
Mat 15:32
Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the
multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have
nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might
faint on the way."
Mat 15:33
The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves
in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
Mat 15:34
Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They
said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
Mat 15:35
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
Mat 15:36
and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke
them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
Mat 15:37
They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the
broken pieces that were left over.
Mat 15:38
Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
Mat 15:39
Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into
the borders of Magdala.
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