Bible Reading
April 30
The World English Bible
Apr.
30
Deuteronomy
15, 16
Deu
15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
Deu
15:2 This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been
proclaimed.
Deu
15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with
your brother your hand shall release.
Deu
15:4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will
surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance to possess it;)
Deu
15:5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall
rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deu
15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of
your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall
not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deu
15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely
lend him sufficient for his need in that
which he wants.
Deu
15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be
evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry
to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deu
15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved
when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God
will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand
to.
Deu
15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I
command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother,
to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Deu
15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to
you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let
him go free from you.
Deu
15:13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go
empty:
Deu
15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of
your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God
has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deu
15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this
thing today.
Deu
15:16 It shall be, if he tells you, I will not go out from you;
because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
Deu
15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to
the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female
servant you shall do likewise.
Deu
15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from
you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you
six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
Deu
15:19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your
flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work
with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your
flock.
Deu
15:20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the
place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
Deu
15:21 If it have any blemish, as if it
be lame or blind, any ill blemish
whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Deu
15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
shall eat it
alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
Deu
15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
Deu
16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your
God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out
of Egypt by night.
Deu
16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the
flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there.
Deu
16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat
unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction;
for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may
remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of your life.
Deu
16:4 There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven
days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first
day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Deu
16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you;
Deu
16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out
of Egypt.
Deu
16:7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your
tents.
Deu
16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day
shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work
therein.
Deu
16:9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you
begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to
number seven weeks.
Deu
16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give,
according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
Deu
16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your
son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female
servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there.
Deu
16:12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and
you shall observe and do these statutes.
Deu
16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you
have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
Deu
16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and
the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who
are within your gates.
Deu
16:15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the
place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless
you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you
shall be altogether joyful.
Deu
16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before
Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
Deu
16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
Deu
16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which
Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall
judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deu
16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons;
neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of
the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deu
16:20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may
live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of
tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for
yourselves.
Deu
16:22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your
God hates.
Apr.
30, May 1
Luke
17
Luk
17:1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no
occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they
come!
Luk
17:2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his
neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should
cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Luk
17:3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he
repents, forgive him.
Luk
17:4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times
returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
Luk
17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
Luk
17:6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard
seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted
in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Luk
17:7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping
sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come
immediately and sit down at the table,'
Luk
17:8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe
yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you
shall eat and drink'?
Luk
17:9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were
commanded? I think not.
Luk
17:10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are
commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our
duty.' "
Luk
17:11 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was
passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
Luk
17:12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers
met him, who stood at a distance.
Luk
17:13 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us!"
Luk
17:14 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show
yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they
were cleansed.
Luk
17:15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
glorifying God with a loud voice.
Luk
17:16 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he
was a Samaritan.
Luk
17:17 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are
the nine?
Luk
17:18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God,
except this stranger?"
Luk
17:19 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith
has healed you."
Luk
17:20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would
come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with
observation;
Luk
17:21 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for
behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."
Luk
17:22 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you
will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will
not see it.
Luk
17:23 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go
away, nor follow after them,
Luk
17:24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part
under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the
Son of Man be in his day.
Luk
17:25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation.
Luk
17:26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in
the days of the Son of Man.
Luk
17:27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the
flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk
17:28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate,
they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luk
17:29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire
and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
Luk
17:30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is
revealed.
Luk
17:31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in
the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in
the field likewise not turn back.
Luk
17:32 Remember Lot's wife!
Luk
17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his
life preserves it.
Luk
17:34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed.
The one will be taken, and the other will be left.
Luk
17:35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken,
and the other will be left."
Luk
17:36 Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left."
Luk
17:37 They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said
to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be
gathered together."
