Bible Reading for May 17 and 18
World English Bible
May
17
Joshua
15, 16
Jos
15:1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to
their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of
Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
Jos
15:2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea,
from the bay that looks southward;
Jos
15:3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed
along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed
along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;
Jos
15:4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt;
and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
Jos
15:5 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the
Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea
at the end of the Jordan.
Jos
15:6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the
north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben.
Jos
15:7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so
northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of
Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed
along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
Jos
15:8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the
side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the
border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley
of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of
Rephaim northward.
Jos
15:9 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring
of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount
Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath
Jearim);
Jos
15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount
Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the
same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by
Timnah;
Jos
15:11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and
the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah,
and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea.
Jos
15:12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the
border of the children of Judah according to their families.
Jos
15:13 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is
Hebron).
Jos
15:14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman,
and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Jos
15:15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of
Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
Jos
15:16 Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it,
to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
Jos
15:17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and
he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Jos
15:18 It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father
fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What
do you want?"
Jos
15:19 She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in
the land of the South, give me also springs of water." He gave
her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Jos
15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families.
Jos
15:21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Jos
15:22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
Jos
15:23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
Jos
15:24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
Jos
15:25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor),
Jos
15:26 Amam, Shema, Moladah,
Jos
15:27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
Jos
15:28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
Jos
15:29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
Jos
15:30 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
Jos
15:31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
Jos
15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are
twenty-nine, with their villages.
Jos
15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Jos
15:34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
Jos
15:35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
Jos
15:36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
Jos
15:38 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
Jos
15:39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
Jos
15:40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
Jos
15:41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities
with their villages.
Jos
15:42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
Jos
15:43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
Jos
15:44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Jos
15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
Jos
15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of
Ashdod, with their villages.
Jos
15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its
villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its
coastline.
Jos
15:48 In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
Jos
15:49 Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),
Jos
15:50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
Jos
15:51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Jos
15:52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
Jos
15:53 Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
Jos
15:54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
Jos
15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
Jos
15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Jos
15:58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
Jos
15:59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
villages.
Jos
15:60 Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
Jos
15:62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their
villages.
Jos
15:63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live
with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Jos
16:1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at
Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness,
going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
Jos
16:2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border
of the Archites to Ataroth;
Jos
16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to
the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the
sea.
Jos
16:4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.
Jos
16:5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to
their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth
Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
Jos
16:6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The
border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it
on the east of Janoah.
Jos
16:7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to
Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Jos
16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of
Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Ephraim according to their families;
Jos
16:9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children
of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Jos
16:10 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but
the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have
become servants to do forced labor.
May
18
Joshua
17, 18
Jos
17:1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the
firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had
Gilead and Bashan.
Jos
17:2 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according
to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of
Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for
the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were
the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families.
Jos
17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son
of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these
are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah.
Jos
17:4 They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the
son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, "Yahweh commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." Therefore
according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance
among the brothers of their father.
Jos
17:5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and
Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
Jos
17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his
sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of
Manasseh.
Jos
17:7 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is
before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the
inhabitants of En Tappuah.
Jos
17:8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the
border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
Jos
17:9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the
brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh.
The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended
at the sea.
Jos
17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,
and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and
to Issachar on the east.
Jos
17:11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean
and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the
inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo
and its towns.
Jos
17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the
inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that
land.
Jos
17:13 It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong,
that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly
drive them out.
Jos
17:14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have
you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am
a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"
Jos
17:15 Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to
the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is
too narrow for you."
Jos
17:16 The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not
enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley
have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its
towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."
Jos
17:17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to
Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power.
You shall not have one lot only;
Jos
17:18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest,
you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for
you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of
iron, and though they are strong."
Jos
18:1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there.
The land was subdued before them.
Jos
18:2 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had
not yet divided their inheritance.
Jos
18:3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you
neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has given you?
Jos
18:4 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send
them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it
according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
Jos
18:5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in
his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their
borders on the north.
Jos
18:6 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the
description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before
Yahweh our God.
Jos
18:7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood
of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward,
which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."
Jos
18:8 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to
survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it,
and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in
Shiloh."
Jos
18:9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by
cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp
at Shiloh.
Jos
18:10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There
Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
Jos
18:11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families. The border of their lot went out between
the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Jos
18:12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The
border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up
through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth
Aven.
Jos
18:13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz
(the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth
Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the
lower.
Jos
18:14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter
southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward;
and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of
the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.
Jos
18:15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath
Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of
the waters of Nephtoah.
Jos
18:16 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that
lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley
of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the
side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
Jos
18:17 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to
Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down
to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Jos
18:18 It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward,
and went down to the Arabah.
Jos
18:19 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward;
and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south
end of the Jordan. This was the south border.
Jos
18:20 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it,
according to their families.
Jos
18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Jos
18:22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Jos
18:23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
Jos
18:24 Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their
villages.
Jos
18:25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
Jos
18:26 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
Jos
18:27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
Jos
18:28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath,
and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
May
17
John 1
Joh 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
Joh 1:2
The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made
that has been made.
Joh 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome
it.
Joh 1:6
There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7
The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light,
that all might believe through him.
Joh 1:8
He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the
light.
Joh 1:9
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
Joh
1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and
the world didn't recognize him.
Joh
1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive
him.
Joh
1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to
become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
Joh
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
Joh
1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace
and truth.
Joh
1:15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was
he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he
was before me.' "
Joh
1:16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
Joh
1:17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
Joh
1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is
in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
Joh
1:19 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
Joh
1:20 He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not
the Christ."
Joh
1:21 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said,
"I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered,
"No."
Joh
1:22 They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an
answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about
yourself?"
Joh
1:23 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."
Joh
1:24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
Joh
1:25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not
the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
Joh
1:26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you
stands one whom you don't know.
Joh
1:27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me,
whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
Joh
1:28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John
was baptizing.
Joh
1:29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Joh
1:30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is
preferred before me, for he was before me.'
Joh
1:31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in
water: that he would be revealed to Israel."
Joh
1:32 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending
like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
Joh
1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water,
he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
Joh
1:34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."
Joh
1:35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his
disciples,
Joh
1:36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God!"
Joh
1:37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Joh
1:38 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What
are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which
is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
Joh
1:39 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw
where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about
the tenth hour.
Joh
1:40 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother.
Joh
1:41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We
have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
Joh
1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You
are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which
is by interpretation, Peter).
Joh
1:43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and
he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
Joh
1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
Joh
1:45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found
him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Joh
1:46 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Joh
1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold,
an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
Joh
1:48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus
answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the
fig tree, I saw you."
Joh
1:49 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God!
You are King of Israel!"
Joh
1:50 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you
underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things
than these!"
Joh
1:51 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you
will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and
descending on the Son of Man."
May 18
John 2
Joh 2:1
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus'
mother was there.
Joh 2:2
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
Joh 2:3
When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no
wine."
Joh 2:4
Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you
and me? My hour has not yet come."
Joh 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do
it."
Joh 2:6
Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews'
manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
Joh 2:7
Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They
filled them up to the brim.
Joh 2:8
He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler
of the feast." So they took it.
Joh 2:9
When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and
didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the
water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
Joh
2:10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and
when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have
kept the good wine until now!"
Joh
2:11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and
revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Joh
2:12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his
brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
Joh
2:13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
Joh
2:14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
and the changers of money sitting.
Joh
2:15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both
the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and
overthrew their tables.
Joh
2:16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things
out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
Joh
2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for
your house will eat me up."
Joh
2:18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show
us, seeing that you do these things?"
Joh
2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up."
Joh
2:20 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple
in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Joh
2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Joh
2:22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and
the word which Jesus had said.
Joh
2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast,
many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
Joh
2:24 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew
everyone,
Joh
2:25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning
man; for he himself knew what was in man.
