Bible Reading
May 16
The World English Bible
May
16
Joshua
13, 14
Jos
13:1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to
him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet
very much land to be possessed.
Jos
13:2 This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
Jos
13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of
Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
Jos
13:4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that
belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
Jos
13:5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the
sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
Jos
13:6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Jos
13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine
tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh."
Jos
13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even
as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
Jos
13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of
Medeba to Dibon;
Jos
13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned
in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
Jos
13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites,
and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
Jos
13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and
in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for
Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
Jos
13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the
Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the
midst of Israel to this day.
Jos
13:14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The
offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him.
Jos
13:15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to
their families.
Jos
13:16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley
of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and
all the plain by Medeba;
Jos
13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
Jos
13:18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Jos
13:19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
Jos
13:20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
Jos
13:21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king
of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the
chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of
Sihon, who lived in the land.
Jos
13:22 The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of
Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
Jos
13:23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the
Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according
to their families, the cities and its villages.
Jos
13:24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad,
according to their families.
Jos
13:25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half
the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
Jos
13:26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from
Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
Jos
13:27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and
Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the
Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond
the Jordan eastward.
Jos
13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to
their families, the cities and its villages.
Jos
13:29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It
was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their
families.
Jos
13:30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan,
sixty cities.
Jos
13:31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom
of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh,
even for the half of the children of Machir according to their
families.
Jos
13:32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the
plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
Jos
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh,
the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
Jos
14:1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in
the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed to them,
Jos
14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses,
for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
Jos
14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the
half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no
inheritance among them.
Jos
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except
cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for
their property.
Jos
14:5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they
divided the land.
Jos
14:6 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the
thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and
concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
Jos
14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me
from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as
it was in my heart.
Jos
14:8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of
the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
Jos
14:9 Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you
walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever,
because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.'
Jos
14:10 Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses,
while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five
years old, today.
Jos
14:11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses
sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war,
to go out and to come in.
Jos
14:12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke
in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and
great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me,
and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke."
Jos
14:13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Jos
14:14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed
Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Jos
14:15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the
greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.
May
16, 17
John
1
Joh
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
Joh
1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh
1:3 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything
made that has been made.
Joh
1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Joh
1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't
overcome it.
Joh
1:6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh
1:7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the
light, that all might believe through him.
Joh
1:8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about
the light.
Joh
1:9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the
world.
Joh
1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and
the world didn't recognize him.
Joh
1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive
him.
Joh
1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to
become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
Joh
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
Joh
1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace
and truth.
Joh
1:15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was
he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he
was before me.' "
Joh
1:16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
Joh
1:17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
Joh
1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is
in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
Joh
1:19 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
Joh
1:20 He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not
the Christ."
Joh
1:21 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said,
"I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered,
"No."
Joh
1:22 They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an
answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about
yourself?"
Joh
1:23 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."
Joh
1:24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
Joh
1:25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not
the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
Joh
1:26 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you
stands one whom you don't know.
Joh
1:27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me,
whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
Joh
1:28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John
was baptizing.
Joh
1:29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Joh
1:30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is
preferred before me, for he was before me.'
Joh
1:31 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in
water: that he would be revealed to Israel."
Joh
1:32 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending
like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
Joh
1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water,
he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
Joh
1:34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."
Joh
1:35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his
disciples,
Joh
1:36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God!"
Joh
1:37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Joh
1:38 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What
are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which
is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
Joh
1:39 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw
where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about
the tenth hour.
Joh
1:40 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother.
Joh
1:41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We
have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
Joh
1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You
are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which
is by interpretation, Peter).
Joh
1:43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and
he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
Joh
1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
Joh
1:45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found
him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Joh
1:46 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Joh
1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold,
an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
Joh
1:48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus
answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the
fig tree, I saw you."
Joh
1:49 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God!
You are King of Israel!"
Joh
1:50 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you
underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things
than these!"
Joh
1:51 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you
will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and
descending on the Son of Man."
