Bible Reading
April 10
The World English Bible
Apr.
10
Numbers
11, 12
Num
11:1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh
heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them,
and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
Num
11:2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the
fire abated.
Num
11:3 The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh's
fire burnt among them.
Num
11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give
us flesh to eat?
Num
11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlic;
Num
11:6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all
except this manna to look at."
Num
11:7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the
appearance of bdellium.
Num
11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or
beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its
taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
Num
11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on
it.
Num
11:10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was
kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
Num
11:11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your
servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you
lay the burden of all this people on me?
Num
11:12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth,
that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse
carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their
fathers?'
Num
11:13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they
weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'
Num
11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too
heavy for me.
Num
11:15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have
found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
Num
11:16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the
elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they
may stand there with you.
Num
11:17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the
Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself
alone.
Num
11:18 Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and
you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying,
"Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in
Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.
Num
11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days,
Num
11:20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it
is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is
among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come
out of Egypt?" ' "
Num
11:21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh,
that they may eat a whole month.'
Num
11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be
sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, to be sufficient for them?"
Num
11:23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now
you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
Num
11:24 Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and
he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
around the Tent.
Num
11:25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it
happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but
they did so no more.
Num
11:26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad,
and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and
they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the
Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
Num
11:27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and
Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
Num
11:28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen
men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"
Num
11:29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish
that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his
Spirit on them!"
Num
11:30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Num
11:31 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea,
and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side,
and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the earth.
Num
11:32 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all
the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered
ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the
camp.
Num
11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was
chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and
Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
Num
11:34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because
there they buried the people who lusted.
Num
11:35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they stayed at Hazeroth.
Num
12:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
Num
12:2 They said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses?
Hasn't he spoken also with us?" And Yahweh heard it.
Num
12:3 Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were
on the surface of the earth.
Num
12:4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, "You
three come out to the Tent of Meeting!" The three of them came
out.
Num
12:5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of
the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
Num
12:6 He said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among
you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak
with him in a dream.
Num
12:7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
Num
12:8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in
riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
Num
12:9 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
Num
12:10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was
leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she
was leprous.
Num
12:11 Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count
this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we
have sinned.
Num
12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
Num
12:13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg
you!"
Num
12:14 Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her
face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside
of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in
again."
Num
12:15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the
people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
Num
12:16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in
the wilderness of Paran.
Apr. 10, 11
Luke 7
Luk 7:1 After he had
finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into
Capernaum.
Luk 7:2 A certain
centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point
of death.
Luk 7:3 When he heard
about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come
and save his servant.
Luk 7:4 When they came
to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for
you to do this for him,
Luk 7:5 for he loves
our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
Luk 7:6 Jesus went with
them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent
friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself,
for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
Luk 7:7 Therefore I
didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and
my servant will be healed.
Luk 7:8 For I also am a
man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this
one, 'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to
my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
Luk 7:9 When Jesus
heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the
multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such
great faith, no, not in Israel."
Luk 7:10 Those who were
sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been
sick was well.
Luk 7:11 It happened
soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his
disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.
Luk 7:12 Now when he
drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was
carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many
people of the city were with her.
Luk 7:13 When the Lord
saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don't cry."
Luk 7:14 He came near
and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young
man, I tell you, arise!"
Luk 7:15 He who was
dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
Luk 7:16 Fear took hold
of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has
arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"
Luk 7:17 This report
went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the
surrounding region.
Luk 7:18 The disciples
of John told him about all these things.
Luk 7:19 John, calling
to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are
you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"
Luk 7:20 When the men
had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to
you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?' "
Luk 7:21 In that hour
he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many
who were blind he gave sight.
Luk 7:22 Jesus answered
them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and
heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor
have good news preached to them.
Luk 7:23 Blessed is he
who is not offended by me."
Luk 7:24 When John's
messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John,
"What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken
by the wind?
Luk 7:25 But what did
you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who
are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Luk 7:26 But what did
you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a
prophet.
Luk 7:27 This is he of
whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you.'
Luk 7:28 "For I
tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater
prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of
God is greater than he."
Luk 7:29 When all the
people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be
just, having been baptized with John's baptism.
Luk 7:30 But the
Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being
baptized by him themselves.
Luk 7:31 "To what
then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
Luk 7:32 They are like
children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying,
'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't
weep.'
Luk 7:33 For John the
Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say,
'He has a demon.'
Luk 7:34 The Son of Man
has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man,
and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
Luk 7:35 Wisdom is
justified by all her children."
Luk 7:36 One of the
Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's
house, and sat at the table.
Luk 7:37 Behold, a
woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was
reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of
ointment.
Luk 7:38 Standing
behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears,
and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the ointment.
Luk 7:39 Now when the
Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This
man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of
woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
Luk 7:40 Jesus answered
him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said,
"Teacher, say on."
Luk 7:41 "A
certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii,
and the other fifty.
Luk 7:42 When they
couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love
him most?"
Luk 7:43 Simon
answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He
said to him, "You have judged correctly."
Luk 7:44 Turning to the
woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into
your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my
feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
Luk 7:45 You gave me no
kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my
feet.
Luk 7:46 You didn't
anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
Luk 7:47 Therefore I
tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much.
But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
Luk 7:48 He said to
her, "Your sins are forgiven."
Luk 7:49 Those who sat
at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this
who even forgives sins?"
Luk 7:50 He said to the
woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
