Bible Reading
February 6
The World English Bible
Feb.
6
Genesis
37
Gen
37:1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of
Canaan.
Gen
37:2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was
a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph
brought an evil report of them to their father.
Gen
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
Gen
37:4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his
brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
Gen
37:5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and
they hated him all the more.
Gen
37:6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have
dreamed:
Gen
37:7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold,
my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came
around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
Gen
37:8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us?
Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all
the more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen
37:9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and
said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the
sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
Gen
37:10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father
rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have
dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves down to you to the earth?"
Gen
37:11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in
mind.
Gen
37:12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Gen
37:13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the
flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to
him, "Here I am."
Gen
37:14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your
brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So
he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen
37:15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the
field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
Gen
37:16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please,
where they are feeding the flock."
Gen
37:17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say,
'Let us go to Dothan.' " Joseph went after his brothers, and
found them in Dothan.
Gen
37:18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they
conspired against him to kill him.
Gen
37:19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
Gen
37:20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one
of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We
will see what will become of his dreams."
Gen
37:21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and
said, "Let's not take his life."
Gen
37:22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he
might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Gen
37:23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they
stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
Gen
37:24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was
empty. There was no water in it.
Gen
37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and
looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with
their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it
down to Egypt.
Gen
37:26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill
our brother and conceal his blood?
Gen
37:27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our
hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers
listened to him.
Gen
37:28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and
lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
Gen
37:29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the
pit; and he tore his clothes.
Gen
37:30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no
more; and I, where will I go?"
Gen
37:31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped
the coat in the blood.
Gen
37:32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to
their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now,
whether it is your son's coat or not."
Gen
37:33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil
animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
Gen
37:34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and
mourned for his son many days.
Gen
37:35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but
he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to
Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
Gen
37:36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Feb. 6, 7
Matthew 19
Mat 19:1 It happened
when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and
came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Mat 19:2 Great
multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
Mat 19:3 Pharisees came
to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to
divorce his wife for any reason?"
Mat 19:4 He answered,
"Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made
them male and female,
Mat 19:5 and said, 'For
this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to
his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
Mat 19:6 So that they
are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined
together, don't let man tear apart."
Mat 19:7 They asked
him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of
divorce, and divorce her?"
Mat 19:8 He said to
them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed
you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
Mat 19:9 I tell you
that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is
divorced commits adultery."
Mat 19:10 His disciples
said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it
is not expedient to marry."
Mat 19:11 But he said
to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom
it is given.
Mat 19:12 For there are
eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there
are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who
made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is
able to receive it, let him receive it."
Mat 19:13 Then little
children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them
and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
Mat 19:14 But Jesus
said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come
to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these."
Mat 19:15 He laid his
hands on them, and departed from there.
Mat 19:16 Behold, one
came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do,
that I may have eternal life?"
Mat 19:17 He said to
him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is,
God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Mat 19:18 He said to
him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, " 'You shall not
murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You
shall not offer false testimony.'
Mat 19:19 'Honor your
father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
"
Mat 19:20 The young man
said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth.
What do I still lack?"
Mat 19:21 Jesus said to
him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and
give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come,
follow me."
Mat 19:22 But when the
young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had
great possessions.
Mat 19:23 Jesus said to
his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
Mat 19:24 Again I tell
you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for
a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Mat 19:25 When the
disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who
then can be saved?"
Mat 19:26 Looking at
them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all
things are possible."
Mat 19:27 Then Peter
answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you.
What then will we have?"
Mat 19:28 Jesus said to
them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me,
in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his
glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes
of Israel.
Mat 19:29 Everyone who
has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one
hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Mat 19:30 But many will
be last who are first; and first who are last.
