Bible Reading December 8 (World English Bible)
Ezekiel
45-48
Eze
45:1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of
the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand
reeds, and
the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border
all around.
Eze
45:2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in
length by five hundred in
breadth, square all around; and fifty
cubits for its suburbs all around.
Eze
45:3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five
thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary, which is most holy.
Eze
45:4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests,
the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh;
and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the
sanctuary.
Eze
45:5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth,
shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession
to themselves, for
twenty chambers.
Eze
45:6 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering
of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
Eze
45:7 Whatever is
for the prince shall be
on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the
possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of
the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the
east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions,
from the west border to the east border.
Eze
45:8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the
land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Eze
45:9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of
Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and
righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
bath.
Eze
45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part
of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.
Eze
45:12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus
twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Eze
45:13 This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of
an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of
an ephah from a homer of barley;
Eze
45:14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part
of a bath out of the cor, which is
ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
Eze
45:15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the
well-watered pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt
offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
45:16 All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the
prince in Israel.
Eze
45:17 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and
the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on
the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of
the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
atonement for the house of Israel.
Eze
45:18 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first month,
in the first day
of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you
shall cleanse the sanctuary.
Eze
45:19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and
put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the
ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
Eze
45:20 So you shall do on the seventh day
of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you
shall make atonement for the house.
Eze
45:21 In the first month,
in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a
feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Eze
45:22 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all
the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
Eze
45:23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven
days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
Eze
45:24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an
ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Eze
45:25 In the seventh month,
in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like
the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt
offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the
oil.
Eze
46:1 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that
looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it
shall be opened.
Eze
46:2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate
outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests
shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he
shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth;
but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Eze
46:3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate
before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Eze
46:4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall
be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without
blemish;
Eze
46:5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the
meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil
to an ephah.
Eze
46:6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without
blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
Eze
46:7 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull,
and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able,
and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Eze
46:8 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the
porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way.
Eze
46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the
appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who
enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the
north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he
came in, but shall go forth straight before him.
Eze
46:10 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and
when they go out, he shall go out.
Eze
46:11 In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall
be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as
he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Eze
46:12 When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt
offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one
shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall
prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the
Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one
shall shut the gate.
Eze
46:13 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a
burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare
it.
Eze
46:14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning,
the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to
moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a
perpetual ordinance.
Eze
46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and
the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
Eze
46:16 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of
his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is
their possession by inheritance.
Eze
46:17 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his
servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall
return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his
sons.
Eze
46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give
inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not
be scattered every man from his possession.
Eze
46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of
the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward
the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
Eze
46:20 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil
the trespass offering and the sin offering, and
where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them
forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
Eze
46:21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me
to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner
of the court there was a court.
Eze
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.
Eze
46:23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling
places were made under the walls all around.
Eze
46:24 Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
Eze
47:1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters
issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the
forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came
down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of
the altar.
Eze
47:2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and
led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the
gate that looks toward the east; and
behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
Eze
47:3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he
measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the
waters, waters that were to the ankles.
Eze
47:4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through
the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one
thousand, and caused me to pass through the
waters, waters that were to the waist.
Eze
47:5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and
it was a river that I could not pass
through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed through.
Eze
47:6 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen this?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
Eze
47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were
very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Eze
47:8 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern
region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward
the sea; into the sea shall the waters
go which were made to issue forth; and
the waters shall be healed.
Eze
47:9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in
every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a
very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and
the waters of the sea
shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
Eze
47:10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En
Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets;
their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many.
Eze
47:11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be
healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Eze
47:12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall
grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall
its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because
its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for
food, and its leaf for healing.
Eze
47:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which
you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two
portions.
Eze
47:14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to
give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for
inheritance.
Eze
47:15 This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from
the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
Eze
47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the
border of Hauran.
Eze
47:17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of
Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is
the north side.
Eze
47:18 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the
land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north
border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
Eze
47:19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the
waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook of
Egypt, to the great sea. This is the
south side southward.
Eze
47:20 The west side shall be the great sea, from the south
border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the
west side.
Eze
47:21 So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes
of Israel.
Eze
47:22 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, who
shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the
native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance
with you among the tribes of Israel.
Eze
47:23 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns,
there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end,
beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at
the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall
have their sides east and
west), Dan, one portion.
Eze
48:2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side,
Asher, one portion.
Eze
48:3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west
side, Naphtali, one portion.
Eze
48:4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side,
Manasseh, one portion.
Eze
48:5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side,
Ephraim, one portion.
Eze
48:6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west
side, Reuben, one portion.
Eze
48:7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side,
Judah, one portion.
Eze
48:8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side,
shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand
reeds in
breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to
the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.
Eze
48:9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be
twenty-five thousand reeds
in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
Eze
48:10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering:
toward the north twenty-five thousand in
length, and toward the west ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh
shall be in its midst.
Eze
48:11 It shall be
for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have
kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel
went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Eze
48:12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land,
a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
Eze
48:13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall
have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all
the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand.
Eze
48:14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the
first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
Eze
48:15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of
the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for
dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.
Eze
48:16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and
five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and
on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side
four thousand and five hundred.
Eze
48:17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred
fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east
two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
Eze
48:18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering,
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it
shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be
for food to those who labor in the city.
Eze
48:19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel,
shall cultivate it.
Eze
48:20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five
thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the
possession of the city.
Eze
48:21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in
front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east
border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the
west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince:
and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its
midst.
Eze
48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it
shall be for the prince.
Eze
48:23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west
side, Benjamin, one portion.
Eze
48:24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west
side, Simeon, one portion.
Eze
48:25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side,
Issachar, one portion.
Eze
48:26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west
side, Zebulun, one portion.
Eze
48:27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side,
Gad, one portion.
Eze
48:28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border
shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the
brook of Egypt,
to the great sea.
Eze
48:29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes
of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
48:30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four
thousand and five hundred reeds
by measure;
Eze
48:31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the
gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
Eze
48:32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds,
and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin,
one; the gate of Dan, one.
Eze
48:33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds
by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of
Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
Eze
48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds,
with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one;
the gate of Naphtali, one.
Eze
48:35 It shall be eighteen thousand reeds
around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is
there.
2 Peter 1
2Pe 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have
obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our
God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3
seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who
called us by his own glory and virtue;
2Pe 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great
promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by
lust.
2Pe 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in
your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence,
knowledge;
2Pe 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in
patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection,
love.
2Pe 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not
idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near,
having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and
election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
2Pe 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the
eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12
Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things,
though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:13
I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by
reminding you;
2Pe 1:14
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our
Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
2Pe 1:15
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember
these things even after my departure.
2Pe 1:16
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to
you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17
For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice
came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased."
2Pe 1:18
We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the
holy mountain.
2Pe 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed
it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and
the morning star arises in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private
interpretation.
2Pe 1:21
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God
spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
In
one of the more well-known scenes of Scripture, the Lord, in the midst
of an unconsumed burning bush, appeared to Moses on Mount Horeb. He
revealed to Moses that it was time to deliver the Israelites out of
Egyptian bondage. It was time to give the descendants of Abraham the
land of Canaan, which He had promised to his descendants more than 400
years earlier (cf. Genesis 12:1,7; 13:15; 15:13). It was time for Moses to lead God’s people out of Egypt (Exodus 3:10).