Bible Reading January 3 (World English Bible)
Jan.
3
Genesis
3
Gen
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field
which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really
said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?' "
Gen
3:2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees
of the garden we may eat,
Gen
3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the
garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you
touch it, lest you die.' "
Gen
3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
Gen
3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Gen
3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it
was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to
make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to
her husband with her, and he ate.
Gen
3:7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they
were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
aprons.
Gen
3:8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Gen
3:9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are
you?"
Gen
3:10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
Gen
3:11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
Gen
3:12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Gen
3:13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have
done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I
ate."
Gen
3:14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done
this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal of
the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the
days of your life.
Gen
3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will
bruise his heel."
Gen
3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain
in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire
will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Gen
3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's
voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying,
'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In
toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Gen
3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you
will eat the herb of the field.
Gen
3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return
to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to
dust you shall return."
Gen
3:20 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all
living.
Gen
3:21 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and
clothed them.
Gen
3:22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of
us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also
take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Gen
3:23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from which he was taken.
Gen
3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of
the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way,
to guard the way to the tree of life.
Matthew 2
Mat 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod
the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
Mat 2:2
"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star
in the east, and have come to worship him."
Mat 2:3
When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with
him.
Mat 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people,
he asked them where the Christ would be born.
Mat 2:5
They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written
through the prophet,
Mat 2:6
'You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes
of Judah: for out of you shall come forth a governor, who shall
shepherd my people, Israel.' "
Mat 2:7
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them
exactly what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently
for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that
I also may come and worship him."
Mat 2:9
They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star,
which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood
over where the young child was.
Mat 2:10
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
Mat 2:11
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his
mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their
treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Mat 2:12
Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they
went back to their own country another way.
Mat 2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and
his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for
Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
Mat 2:14
He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and
departed into Egypt,
Mat 2:15
and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out
of Egypt I called my son."
Mat 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was
exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who
were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two
years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned
from the wise men.
Mat 2:17
Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled,
saying,
Mat 2:18
"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted,
because they are no more."
Mat 2:19
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a
dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
Mat 2:20
"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the
land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are
dead."
Mat 2:21
He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the
land of Israel.
Mat 2:22
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place
of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a
dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
Mat 2:23
and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: "He will be
called a Nazarene."
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