Bible Reading
April 22
The World English Bible
Apr.
22
Numbers
35, 36
Num
35:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying,
Num
35:2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of
the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and You shall
give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.
Num
35:3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall
be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their
animals.
Num
35:4 The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites,
shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits
around it.
Num
35:5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two
thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for
the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two
thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them
the suburbs of the cities.
Num
35:6 The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be
the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to
flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
Num
35:7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be
forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.
Num
35:8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of
the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from
the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance
which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
Num
35:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
35:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Num
35:11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for
you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee
there.
Num
35:12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that
the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for
judgment.
Num
35:13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of
refuge.
Num
35:14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall
give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of
refuge.
Num
35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the
foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge;
that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Num
35:16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he
died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may
die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put
to death.
Num
35:18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by
which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death:
when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
Num
35:20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait,
so that he died,
Num
35:21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who
struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the
avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
Num
35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him
anything without lying in wait,
Num
35:23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and
cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither
sought his harm;
Num
35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the
avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
Num
35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the
hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him
to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein
until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy
oil.
Num
35:26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of
his city of refuge, where he flees,
Num
35:27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his
city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall
not be guilty of blood,
Num
35:28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until
the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest
the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Num
35:29 These things shall be for a statute and
ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Num
35:30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the
mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person that he die.
Num
35:31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer
who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:32 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of
refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death
of the priest.
Num
35:33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood,
it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for
the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Num
35:34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst
of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children
of Israel.
Num
36:1 The heads of the fathers' houses
of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son
of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and
spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers'
houses of
the children of Israel:
Num
36:2 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for
inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
to his daughters.
Num
36:3 If they be married to any of the sons of the other
tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be
taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it
be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
Num
36:4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will
their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Num
36:5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of
Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
Num
36:6 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the
daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they
think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall
they be married.
Num
36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to
the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Num
36:8 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of
the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the
tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every
man the inheritance of his fathers.
Num
36:9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe;
for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his
own inheritance.
Num
36:10 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad:
Num
36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers'
sons.
Num
36:12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh
the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the
family of their father.
Num
36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan at Jericho.
Apr.
22, 23
Luke
13
Luk
13:1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about
the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Luk
13:2 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered such things?
Luk
13:3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way.
Luk
13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed
them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men
who dwell in Jerusalem?
Luk
13:5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way."
Luk
13:6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found
none.
Luk
13:7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have
come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down.
Why does it waste the soil?'
Luk
13:8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig
around it, and fertilize it.
Luk
13:9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it
down.' "
Luk
13:10 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Luk
13:11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten
herself up.
Luk
13:12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman,
you are freed from your infirmity."
Luk
13:13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up
straight, and glorified God.
Luk
13:14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had
healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six
days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be
healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
Luk
13:15 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't
each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the
Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
Luk
13:16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan
had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the
Sabbath day?"
Luk
13:17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were
disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious
things that were done by him.
Luk
13:18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall
I compare it?
Luk
13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put
in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of
the sky lodged in its branches."
Luk
13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of
God?
Luk
13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures
of flour, until it was all leavened."
Luk
13:22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and
traveling on to Jerusalem.
Luk
13:23 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
He said to them,
Luk
13:24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell
you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Luk
13:25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut
the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door,
saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you,
'I don't know you or where you come from.'
Luk
13:26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your
presence, and you taught in our streets.'
Luk
13:27 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
Luk
13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God,
and yourselves being thrown outside.
Luk
13:29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will
sit down in the Kingdom of God.
Luk
13:30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and
there are some who are first who will be last."
Luk
13:31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get
out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
Luk
13:32 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast
out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I
complete my mission.
Luk
13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the
next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of
Jerusalem.'
Luk
13:34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and
stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your
children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings,
and you refused!
Luk
13:35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you
will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!' "
