Bible Reading August 4

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August 4

The World English Bible

Aug. 4

Ezra 1-3

Ezr 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Ezr 1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezr 1:3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:4 Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:5 Then rose up the heads of fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.

Ezr 1:6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

Ezr 1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

Ezr 1:8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Ezr 1:9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

Ezr 1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.

Ezr 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezr 2:1 Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

Ezr 2:2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Ezr 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

Ezr 2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

Ezr 2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.

Ezr 2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

Ezr 2:7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Ezr 2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.

Ezr 2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

Ezr 2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

Ezr 2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.

Ezr 2:12 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.

Ezr 2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.

Ezr 2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.

Ezr 2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.

Ezr 2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

Ezr 2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.

Ezr 2:18 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.

Ezr 2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three.

Ezr 2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

Ezr 2:21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

Ezr 2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

Ezr 2:23 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

Ezr 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

Ezr 2:25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

Ezr 2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

Ezr 2:27 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

Ezr 2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

Ezr 2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

Ezr 2:30 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.

Ezr 2:31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Ezr 2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

Ezr 2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.

Ezr 2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

Ezr 2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.

Ezr 2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

Ezr 2:37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

Ezr 2:38 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

Ezr 2:39 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

Ezr 2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

Ezr 2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

Ezr 2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

Ezr 2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Ezr 2:44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

Ezr 2:45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

Ezr 2:46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

Ezr 2:47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

Ezr 2:48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

Ezr 2:49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

Ezr 2:50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

Ezr 2:51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

Ezr 2:52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Ezr 2:53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

Ezr 2:54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Ezr 2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

Ezr 2:56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Ezr 2:57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

Ezr 2:58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

Ezr 2:59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

Ezr 2:60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

Ezr 2:61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

Ezr 2:62 These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

Ezr 2:63 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

Ezr 2:64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Ezr 2:65 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

Ezr 2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

Ezr 2:67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Ezr 2:68 Some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:

Ezr 2:69 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

Ezr 2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Ezr 3:1 When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezr 3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezr 3:3 They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Ezr 3:4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

Ezr 3:5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh.

Ezr 3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.

Ezr 3:7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

Ezr 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.

Ezr 3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

Ezr 3:10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.

Ezr 3:11 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, saying, For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid.

Ezr 3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Ezr 3:13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

 

Aug. 3, 4

Acts 20

Act 20:1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

Act 20:2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Act 20:3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Act 20:4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Act 20:5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.

Act 20:6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

Act 20:7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Act 20:8 There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together.

Act 20:9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Act 20:10 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."

Act 20:11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

Act 20:12 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

Act 20:13 But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

Act 20:14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.

Act 20:15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.

Act 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Act 20:17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Act 20:18 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

Act 20:19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Act 20:20 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Act 20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Act 20:22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Act 20:23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Act 20:24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Act 20:25 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

Act 20:26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,

Act 20:27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Act 20:28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Act 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Act 20:30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Act 20:31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Act 20:32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Act 20:33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.

Act 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Act 20:35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "

Act 20:36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Act 20:37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

Act 20:38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.