Bible Reading
March 19
The World English Bible
Mar.
19
Exodus
32, 33
Exo
32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said
to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as
for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we don't know what has become of him."
Exo
32:2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and
bring them to me."
Exo
32:3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their
ears, and brought them to Aaron.
Exo
32:4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an
engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These
are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of
Egypt."
Exo
32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to
Yahweh."
Exo
32:6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to
eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exo
32:7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who
you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
Exo
32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded
them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it,
and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel,
which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.' "
Exo
32:9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and
behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
Exo
32:10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot
against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a
great nation."
Exo
32:11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does
your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth
out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exo
32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth
for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the
surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of
this evil against your people.
Exo
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom
you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your
seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of
I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.' "
Exo
32:14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his
people.
Exo
32:15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two
tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on
both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
Exo
32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the
writing of God, engraved on the tables.
Exo
32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he
said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
Exo
32:18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for
victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome;
but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
Exo
32:19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw
the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the
tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
Exo
32:20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire,
ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the
children of Israel drink of it.
Exo
32:21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you,
that you have brought a great sin on them?"
Exo
32:22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You
know the people, that they are set on evil.
Exo
32:23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us;
for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
Exo
32:24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:'
so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came
this calf."
Exo
32:25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron
had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
Exo
32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever
is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered
themselves together to him.
Exo
32:27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from
gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.' "
Exo
32:28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there
fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exo
32:29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes,
every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may
bestow on you a blessing this day."
Exo
32:30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people,
"You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh.
Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
Exo
32:31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
Exo
32:32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please
blot me out of your book which you have written."
Exo
32:33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him
will I blot out of my book.
Exo
32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to
you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day
when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
Exo
32:35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which
Aaron made.
Exo
33:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and
the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the
land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I
will give it to your seed.'
Exo
33:2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exo
33:3 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in
the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume
you in the way."
Exo
33:4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one
put on his jewelry.
Exo
33:5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You
are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one
moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from
you, that I may know what to do to you.' "
Exo
33:6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry
from Mount Horeb onward.
Exo
33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the
camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of
Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out
to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
Exo
33:8 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the
people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched
Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
Exo
33:9 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar
of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with
Moses.
Exo
33:10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of
the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their
tent door.
Exo
33:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his
friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the
son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
Exo
33:12 Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up
this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me.
Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor
in my sight.'
Exo
33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please
show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor
in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
Exo
33:14 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give
you rest."
Exo
33:15 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me,
don't carry us up from here.
Exo
33:16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your
sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we
are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the
surface of the earth?"
Exo
33:17 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you
have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by
name."
Exo
33:18 He said, "Please show me your glory."
Exo
33:19 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you,
and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious
to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show
mercy."
Exo
33:20 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me
and live."
Exo
33:21 Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and
you shall stand on the rock.
Exo
33:22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you
in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have
passed by;
Exo
33:23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but
my face shall not be seen."
Mar. 19, 20
Mark 12
Mar 12:1 He began to
speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a
hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented
it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
Mar 12:2 When it was
time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his
share of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mar 12:3 They took him,
beat him, and sent him away empty.
Mar 12:4 Again, he sent
another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in
the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
Mar 12:5 Again he sent
another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and
killing some.
Mar 12:6 Therefore
still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying,
'They will respect my son.'
Mar 12:7 But those
farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill
him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
Mar 12:8 They took him,
killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What therefore
will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
Mar 12:10 Haven't you
even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the
same was made the head of the corner.
Mar 12:11 This was from
the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Mar 12:12 They tried to
seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he
spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
Mar 12:13 They sent
some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might
trap him with words.
Mar 12:14 When they had
come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and
don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly
teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
Mar 12:15 Shall we
give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I
may see it."
Mar 12:16 They brought
it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
They said to him, "Caesar's."
Mar 12:17 Jesus
answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at
him.
Mar 12:18 There came to
him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him,
saying,
Mar 12:19 "Teacher,
Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind
him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife,
and raise up offspring for his brother.'
Mar 12:20 There were
seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
Mar 12:21 The second
took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third
likewise;
Mar 12:22 and the seven
took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
Mar 12:23 In the
resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the
seven had her as a wife."
Mar 12:24 Jesus
answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing
the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mar 12:25 For when they
will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in
marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mar 12:26 But about the
dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses,
about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
Mar 12:27 He is not the
God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly
mistaken."
Mar 12:28 One of the
scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he
had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the
greatest of all?"
Mar 12:29 Jesus
answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the
Lord is one:
Mar 12:30 you shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the
first commandment.
Mar 12:31 The second is
like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no
other commandment greater than these."
Mar 12:32 The scribe
said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one,
and there is none other but he,
Mar 12:33 and to love
him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the
soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself,
is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
Mar 12:34 When Jesus
saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far
from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question
after that.
Mar 12:35 Jesus
responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the
scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Mar 12:36 For David
himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit
at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your
feet." '
Mar 12:37 Therefore
David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The
common people heard him gladly.
Mar 12:38 In his
teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to
walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,
Mar 12:39 and the best
seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
Mar 12:40 those who
devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These
will receive greater condemnation."
Mar 12:41 Jesus sat
down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into
the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
Mar 12:42 A poor widow
came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans
coin.
Mar 12:43 He called his
disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell
you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the
treasury,
Mar 12:44 for they all
gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all
that she had to live on."
