Bible Reading for May 3 and 4
World English Bible
May
3
Deuteronomy
21, 22
Deu
21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has
struck him;
Deu
21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Deu
21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
Deu
21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Deu
21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of
Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be.
Deu
21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
valley;
Deu
21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deu
21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood to remain
in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
Deu
21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away
captive,
Deu
21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a
desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Deu
21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deu
21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother
a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deu
21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let
her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money,
you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
Deu
21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and
if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
Deu
21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to
inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the
beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the
firstborn:
Deu
21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Deu
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they
chasten him, will not listen to them;
Deu
21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his
place;
Deu
21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
Deu
21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
Deu
21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
Deu
21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of
God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance.
Deu
22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your
brother.
Deu
22:2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you
until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deu
22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his
garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's,
which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
Deu
22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down
by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to
lift them up again.
Deu
22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put
on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination
to Yahweh your God.
Deu
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any
tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting
on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the
young:
Deu
22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to
yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days.
Deu
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man
fall from there.
Deu
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest
the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the
increase of the vineyard.
Deu
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deu
22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
Deu
22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your
cloak, with which you cover yourself.
Deu
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
Deu
22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I
didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
Deu
22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take
and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the
elders of the city in the gate;
Deu
22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my
daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
Deu
22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, I
didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these
are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city.
Deu
22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deu
22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he
has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be
his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
Deu
22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her
father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with
stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute
in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst
of you.
Deu
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and
the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deu
22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deu
22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she
didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled
his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in
the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only
who lay with her shall die:
Deu
22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and kills him, even so is this matter;
Deu
22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her.
Deu
22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deu
22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty shekels
of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he
may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
May
4
Deuteronomy
23, 24
Deu
23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to
the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of
Yahweh.
Deu
23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of
Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them
enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
Deu
23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the
way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against
you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Deu
23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but
Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because
Yahweh your God loved you.
Deu
23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your
days forever.
Deu
23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you
shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his
land.
Deu
23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall
enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deu
23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of
that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the
camp. He shall not come within the camp:
Deu
23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself
in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deu
23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
Deu
23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall
be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn
back and cover that which comes from you:
Deu
23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to
deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your
camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you.
Deu
23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
Deu
23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place
which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him
best: you shall not oppress him.
Deu
23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deu
23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of
a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both
these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of
money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on
interest:
Deu
23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother
you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess
it.
Deu
23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be
slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you;
and it would be sin in you.
Deu
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
Deu
23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering,
which you have promised with your mouth.
Deu
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any
in your vessel.
Deu
23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you
may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to
your neighbor's standing grain.
Deu
24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if
she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deu
24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
Deu
24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or
if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deu
24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deu
24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu
24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge;
for he takes a man's
life to pledge.
Deu
24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that
thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites
shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deu
24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall
not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu
24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you.
Deu
24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu
24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes
down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall
be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deu
24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your
land within your gates:
Deu
24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry
against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deu
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deu
24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due
to the foreigner, or
to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Deu
24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do
this thing.
Deu
24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a
sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for
the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deu
24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
Deu
24:21 When you gather the grapes of
your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be
for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deu
24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
May
3
Luke 18
Luk
18:1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and
not give up,
Luk
18:2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't
fear God, and didn't respect man.
Luk
18:3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying,
'Defend me from my adversary!'
Luk
18:4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself,
'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
Luk
18:5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else
she will wear me out by her continual coming.' "
Luk
18:6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luk
18:7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day
and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Luk
18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when
the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Luk
18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced
of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
Luk
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a
Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luk
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I
thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners,
unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luk
18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Luk
18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift
up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful
to me, a sinner!'
Luk
18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but
he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk
18:15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might
touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luk
18:16 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children
to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs
to such as these.
Luk
18:17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the
Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
Luk
18:18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Luk
18:19 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is
good, except one-God.
Luk
18:20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't
murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your
father and your mother.' "
Luk
18:21 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth
up."
Luk
18:22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still
lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the
poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
Luk
18:23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was
very rich.
Luk
18:24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it
is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Luk
18:25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's
eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Luk
18:26 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
Luk
18:27 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men
are possible with God."
Luk
18:28 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed
you."
Luk
18:29 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no
one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or
children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
Luk
18:30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the
world to come, eternal life."
Luk
18:31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we
are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written
through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
Luk
18:32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked,
treated shamefully, and spit on.
Luk
18:33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise
again."
Luk
18:34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden
from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
Luk
18:35 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat
by the road, begging.
Luk
18:36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
Luk
18:37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
Luk
18:38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet;
but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on
me!"
Luk
18:40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When
he had come near, he asked him,
Luk
18:41 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord,
that I may see again."
Luk
18:42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has
healed you."
Luk
18:43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him,
glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
May 4
Luke 19
Luk
19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
Luk
19:2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector,
and he was rich.
Luk
19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the
crowd, because he was short.
Luk
19:4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see
him, for he was to pass that way.
Luk
19:5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and
said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must
stay at your house."
Luk
19:6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Luk
19:7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone
in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
Luk
19:8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half
of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything
of anyone, I restore four times as much."
Luk
19:9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this
house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Luk
19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was
lost."
Luk
19:11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of
God would be revealed immediately.
Luk
19:12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far
country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luk
19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,
and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
Luk
19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him,
saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
Luk
19:15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had
gained by conducting business.
Luk
19:16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made
ten more minas.'
Luk
19:17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because
you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority
over ten cities.'
Luk
19:18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five
minas.'
Luk
19:19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
Luk
19:20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
laid away in a handkerchief,
Luk
19:21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up
that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
Luk
19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up
that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
Luk
19:23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my
coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
Luk
19:24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him,
and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
Luk
19:25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
Luk
19:26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given;
but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken
away from him.
Luk
19:27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
over them here, and kill them before me.' "
Luk
19:28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to
Jerusalem.
Luk
19:29 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at
the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
Luk
19:30 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side,
in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man
ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
Luk
19:31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The
Lord needs it.' "
Luk
19:32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had
told them.
Luk
19:33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why
are you untying the colt?"
Luk
19:34 They said, "The Lord needs it."
Luk
19:35 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt,
and set Jesus on them.
Luk
19:36 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.
Luk
19:37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of
Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had
seen,
Luk
19:38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the
Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
Luk
19:39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
Luk
19:40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent,
the stones would cry out."
Luk
19:41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Luk
19:42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things
which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luk
19:43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up
a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luk
19:44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground.
They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't
know the time of your visitation."
Luk
19:45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in it,
Luk
19:46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of
prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
Luk
19:47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and
the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy
him.
Luk
19:48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung
on to every word that he said.
