Bible Reading
March 27
The World English Bible
Mar.
27
Leviticus
9, 10
Lev
9:1 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his
sons, and the elders of Israel;
Lev
9:2 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer
them before Yahweh.
Lev
9:3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male
goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old,
without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Lev
9:4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before
Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears
to you.' "
Lev
9:5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting:
and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.
Lev
9:6 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that
you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you."
Lev
9:7 Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer
your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for
yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people,
and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."
Lev
9:8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin
offering, which was for himself.
Lev
9:9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his
finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured
out the blood at the base of the altar:
Lev
9:10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of
the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
Lev
9:11 The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
Lev
9:12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the
blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
Lev
9:13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and
the head: and he burned them upon the altar.
Lev
9:14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the
burnt offering on the altar.
Lev
9:15 He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the
sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it
for sin, like the first.
Lev
9:16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to
the ordinance.
Lev
9:17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there,
and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the
morning.
Lev
9:18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to
him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,
Lev
9:19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that
which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the
liver:
Lev
9:20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on
the altar:
Lev
9:21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave
offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
Lev
9:22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them;
and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt
offering, and the peace offerings.
Lev
9:23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out,
and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the
people.
Lev
9:24 There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the
burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people
saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Lev
10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and
put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire
before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
Lev
10:2 And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and
they died before Yahweh.
Lev
10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of,
saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and
before all the people I will be glorified.' " Aaron held his
peace.
Lev
10:4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle
of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from
before the sanctuary out of the camp."
Lev
10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the
camp, as Moses had said.
Lev
10:6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons,
"Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your
clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the
congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel,
bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Lev
10:7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest
you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did
according to the word of Moses.
Lev
10:8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,
Lev
10:9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with
you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it
shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
Lev
10:10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and
the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Lev
10:11 and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the
statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."
Lev
10:12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons
who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the
altar; for it is most holy;
Lev
10:13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your
portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire: for so I am commanded.
Lev
10:14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean
place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are
given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices
of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Lev
10:15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with
the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering
before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a
portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded."
Lev
10:16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering,
and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
Lev
10:17 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of
the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to
bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them
before Yahweh?
Lev
10:18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the
sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I
commanded."
Lev
10:19 Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered
their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such
things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin
offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"
Lev
10:20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.
Mar. 27, 28
Mark 16
Mar 16:1 When the
Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and
Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mar 16:2 Very early on
the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had
risen.
Mar 16:3 They were
saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the
door of the tomb for us?"
Mar 16:4 for it was
very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
Mar 16:5 Entering into
the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in
a white robe, and they were amazed.
Mar 16:6 He said to
them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has
been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where
they laid him!
Mar 16:7 But go, tell
his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you
will see him, as he said to you.' "
Mar 16:8 They went out,
and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on
them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
Mar 16:9 Now when he
had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to
Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Mar 16:10 She went and
told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Mar 16:11 When they
heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
Mar 16:12 After these
things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they
walked, on their way into the country.
Mar 16:13 They went
away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.
Mar 16:14 Afterward he
was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and
he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because
they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
Mar 16:15 He said to
them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the
whole creation.
Mar 16:16 He who
believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will
be condemned.
Mar 16:17 These signs
will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out
demons; they will speak with new languages;
Mar 16:18 they will
take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no
way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will
recover."
Mar 16:19 So then the
Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven,
and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mar 16:20 They went
out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and
confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
Perhaps
it seems like common sense to you that universes do not create
themselves—popping into existence all over the place, but many
naturalistic scientists are latching on to such bizarre ideas due to
their lack of a naturalistic explanation for the origin of the Universe.
Famous atheist, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist of Cambridge
University, Stephen Hawking, said, “Bodies such as stars or black holes
cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can…. Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing”
(2010, p. 180, emp. added). Is there any empirical evidence suggesting
that universes can pop into existence? Absolutely not. Is there evidence
that anything can pop into existence from nothing? Nope. We have a law of science that prohibits it—the First Law of Thermodynamics (cf. 