Bible Reading March 3-5 (World English Bible)
Exodus
13
Exo
13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
13:2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the
womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is
mine."
Exo
13:3 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall
be eaten.
Exo
13:4 This day you go forth in the month Abib.
Exo
13:5 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Exo
13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
Exo
13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and
no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be
yeast seen with you, in all your borders.
Exo
13:8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of
that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'
Exo
13:9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial
between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for
with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
Exo
13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from
year to year.
Exo
13:11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land
of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall
give it you,
Exo
13:12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb,
and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The
males shall be Yahweh's.
Exo
13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and
if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you
shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
Exo
13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying,
'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh
brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Exo
13:15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice
to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn
of my sons I redeem.'
Exo
13:16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between
your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of
Egypt."
Exo
13:17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God
didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although
that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change
their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
Exo
13:18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by
the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land
of Egypt.
Exo
13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the
children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you,
and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."
Exo
13:20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham,
in the edge of the wilderness.
Exo
13:21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead
them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light, that they might go by day and by night:
Exo
13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night,
didn't depart from before the people.
Exodus
14
Exo
14:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
14:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and
encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal
Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
Exo
14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled
in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
Exo
14:4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them;
and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the
Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
Exo
14:5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the
heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people,
and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let
Israel go from serving us?"
Exo
14:6 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
Exo
14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
Exo
14:8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he
pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went
out with a high hand.
Exo
14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots
of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping
by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
Exo
14:10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their
eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they
were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
Exo
14:11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in
Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you
treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
Exo
14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,
'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better
for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness."
Exo
14:13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still,
and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today:
for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them
again.
Exo
14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."
Exo
14:15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the
children of Israel, that they go forward.
Exo
14:16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the
sea on dry ground.
Exo
14:17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and
over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
Exo
14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten
myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
Exo
14:19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved
and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them,
and stood behind them.
Exo
14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and
there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and
the one didn't come near the other all the night.
Exo
14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the
sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exo
14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the
dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand,
and on their left.
Exo
14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst
of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo
14:24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
confused the Egyptian army.
Exo
14:25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily;
so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel,
for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
Exo
14:26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the
sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their
chariots, and on their horsemen."
Exo
14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
Exo
14:28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the
horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the
sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
Exo
14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of
the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and
on their left.
Exo
14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Exo
14:31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians,
and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his
servant Moses.
Exodus
15
Exo
15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh,
and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed
gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Exo
15:2 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This
is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt
him.
Exo
15:3 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
Exo
15:4 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His
chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
Exo
15:5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a
stone.
Exo
15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand,
Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
Exo
15:7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who
rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as
stubble.
Exo
15:8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The
floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart
of the sea.
Exo
15:9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide
the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my
sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
Exo
15:10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like
lead in the mighty waters.
Exo
15:11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exo
15:12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
Exo
15:13 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that
you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy
habitation.
Exo
15:14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on
the inhabitants of Philistia.
Exo
15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of
the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted
away.
Exo
15:16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm
they are as still as a stone-- until your people pass over, Yahweh,
until the people pass over who you have purchased.
Exo
15:17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself
to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
Exo
15:18 Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
Exo
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the
sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the
midst of the sea.
Exo
15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine
in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines
and with dances.
Exo
15:21 Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has
triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the
sea."
Exo
15:22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out
into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the
wilderness, and found no water.
Exo
15:23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters
of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
Exo
15:24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we
drink?"
Exo
15:25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he
threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he
made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
Exo
15:26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and
will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I
will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the
Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
Exo
15:27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water,
and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
Mar. 3, 4
Mark 4
Mar 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was
gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat
down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
Mar 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his
teaching,
Mar 4:3
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
Mar 4:4
and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the
birds came and devoured it.
Mar 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and
immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Mar 4:6
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root,
it withered away.
Mar 4:7
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it,
and it yielded no fruit.
Mar 4:8
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and
increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and
some one hundred times as much."
Mar 4:9
He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mar 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked
him about the parables.
Mar 4:11
He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of
God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Mar 4:12
that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may
hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and
their sins should be forgiven them.' "
Mar 4:13
He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will
you understand all of the parables?
Mar 4:14
The farmer sows the word.
Mar 4:15
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when
they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word
which has been sown in them.
Mar 4:16
These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who,
when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Mar 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression
or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Mar 4:18
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who
have heard the word,
Mar 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the
lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes
unfruitful.
Mar 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word,
and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times,
and some one hundred times."
Mar 4:21
He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket
or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?
Mar 4:22
For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known;
neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.
Mar 4:23
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mar 4:24
He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure
you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to
you who hear.
Mar 4:25
For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have,
even that which he has will be taken away from him."
Mar 4:26
He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on
the earth,
Mar 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring
up and grow, he doesn't know how.
Mar 4:28
For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the
full grain in the ear.
Mar 4:29
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle,
because the harvest has come."
Mar 4:30
He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what
parable will we illustrate it?
Mar 4:31
It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the
earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
Mar 4:32
yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the
herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can
lodge under its shadow."
Mar 4:33
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able
to hear it.
Mar 4:34
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own
disciples he explained everything.
Mar 4:35
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go
over to the other side."
Mar 4:36
Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in
the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
Mar 4:37
A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much
that the boat was already filled.
Mar 4:38
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him
up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
Mar 4:39
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be
still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mar 4:40
He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have
no faith?"
Mar 4:41
They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is
this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
Mark 5
Mar 5:1
They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Gadarenes.
Mar 5:2
When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean
spirit met him out of the tombs.
Mar 5:3
He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with
chains,
Mar 5:4
because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the
chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces.
Nobody had the strength to tame him.
Mar 5:5
Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was
crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
Mar 5:6
When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
Mar 5:7
and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do
with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God,
don't torment me."
Mar 5:8
For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
Mar 5:9
He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My
name is Legion, for we are many."
Mar 5:10
He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
Mar 5:11
Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
Mar 5:12
All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that
we may enter into them."
Mar 5:13
At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and
entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the
steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
Mar 5:14
Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
The people came to see what it was that had happened.
Mar 5:15
They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons
sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion;
and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16
Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was
possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
Mar 5:17
They began to beg him to depart from their region.
Mar 5:18
As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons
begged him that he might be with him.
Mar 5:19
He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your
friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you,
and how he had mercy on you."
Mar 5:20
He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had
done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
Mar 5:21
When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a
great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
Mar 5:22
Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and
seeing him, he fell at his feet,
Mar 5:23
and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point
of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made
healthy, and live."
Mar 5:24
He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they
pressed upon him on all sides.
Mar 5:25
A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
Mar 5:26
and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all
that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
Mar 5:27
having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the
crowd, and touched his clothes.
Mar 5:28
For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made
well."
Mar 5:29
Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her
body that she was healed of her affliction.
Mar 5:30
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out
from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my
clothes?"
Mar 5:31
His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing
against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?' "
Mar 5:32
He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
Mar 5:33
But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to
her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
Mar 5:34
He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in
peace, and be cured of your disease."
Mar 5:35
While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's
house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any
more?"
Mar 5:36
But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the
ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
Mar 5:37
He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the
brother of James.
Mar 5:38
He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar,
weeping, and great wailing.
Mar 5:39
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an
uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
Mar 5:40
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father
of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in
where the child was lying.
Mar 5:41
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!"
which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!"
Mar 5:42
Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years
old. They were amazed with great amazement.
Mar 5:43
He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded
that something should be given to her to eat.
As
the moral and spiritual fabric of American culture continues to
unravel, one time-honored norm after another is being jettisoned from
daily living. One of those traditional values has been the importance of
taking responsibility for one’s own decisions and actions. This
cultural trait was once embodied in the widely circulated quip
pertaining to an incident in the life of the father of our country.
George Washington was alleged as a boy to have taken it upon himself to
cut down a cherry tree. When questioned about the incident, he is
reported to have remarked: “I cannot tell a lie, I chopped down the
cherry tree.” Regardless of whether this little ditty is fictional or
historical, it illustrates the point that honesty, integrity, and owning
up to one’s own actions were once cherished societal norms.