Bible Reading March 10-12 (World English Bible)
Exodus
20
Exo
20:1 God spoke all these words, saying,
Exo
20:2 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo
20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.
Exo
20:4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image
of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo
20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I,
Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of
those who hate me,
Exo
20:6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.
Exo
20:7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain,
for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Exo
20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo
20:9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
Exo
20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall
not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your
male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your
stranger who is within your gates;
Exo
20:11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed
the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
Exo
20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be
long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Exo
20:13 "You shall not murder.
Exo
20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
Exo
20:15 "You shall not steal.
Exo
20:16 "You shall not give false testimony against your
neighbor.
Exo
20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not
covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your
neighbor's."
Exo
20:18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the
sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw
it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
Exo
20:19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will
listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."
Exo
20:20 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has
come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't
sin."
Exo
20:21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the
thick darkness where God was.
Exo
20:22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the
children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven.
Exo
20:23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of
silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.
Exo
20:24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice
on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and
your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you
and I will bless you.
Exo
20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of
cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
Exo
20:26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your
nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
Exodus
21
Exo
21:1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before
them.
Exo
21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and
in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
Exo
21:3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is
married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exo
21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or
daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself.
Exo
21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my
wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
Exo
21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to
the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear
through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
Exo
21:7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she
shall not go out as the male servants do.
Exo
21:8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to
himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to
sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with
her.
Exo
21:9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the
manner of daughters.
Exo
21:10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her
food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
Exo
21:11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free
without paying any money.
Exo
21:12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be
put to death,
Exo
21:13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen:
then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Exo
21:14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to
kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Exo
21:15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be
surely put to death.
Exo
21:16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exo
21:17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely
be put to death.
Exo
21:18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone,
or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
Exo
21:19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who
struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his
time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly
healed.
Exo
21:20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and
he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
Exo
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall
not be punished, for he is his property.
Exo
21:22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives
birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined
as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
Exo
21:23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
Exo
21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exo
21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
Exo
21:26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye,
and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exo
21:27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female
servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Exo
21:28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull
shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the
owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
Exo
21:29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has
been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has
killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner
shall also be put to death.
Exo
21:30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the
redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
Exo
21:31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according
to this judgment it shall be done to him.
Exo
21:32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty
shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be
stoned.
Exo
21:33 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't
cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
Exo
21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money
to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
Exo
21:35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies,
then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they
shall also divide the dead animal.
Exo
21:36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in
the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull
for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
Exodus
22
Exo
22:1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells
it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exo
22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he
dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
Exo
22:3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed
for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall
be sold for his theft.
Exo
22:4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it
is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
Exo
22:5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets
his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his
own vineyard.
Exo
22:6 "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the
shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he
who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exo
22:7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep,
and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he
shall pay double.
Exo
22:8 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall
come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his
neighbor's goods.
Exo
22:9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey,
for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which
one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before
God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
Exo
22:10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a
sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven
away, no man seeing it;
Exo
22:11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he
hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall
accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Exo
22:12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its
owner.
Exo
22:13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He
shall not make good that which was torn.
Exo
22:14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is
injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make
restitution.
Exo
22:15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a
leased thing, it came for its lease.
Exo
22:16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be
married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be
his wife.
Exo
22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay
money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exo
22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exo
22:19 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to
death.
Exo
22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only,
shall be utterly destroyed.
Exo
22:21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress
him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exo
22:22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless
child.
Exo
22:23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to
me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exo
22:24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exo
22:25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is
poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge
him interest.
Exo
22:26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall
restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exo
22:27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.
What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I
will hear, for I am gracious.
Exo
22:28 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your
people.
Exo
22:29 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from
the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of
your sons to me.
Exo
22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep.
Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you
shall give it to me.
Exo
22:31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat
any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to
the dogs.
Mark 7
Mar 7:1
Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him,
having come from Jerusalem.
Mar 7:2
Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled,
that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
Mar 7:3
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash
their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
Mar 7:4
They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe
themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received
to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
Mar 7:5
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your
disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
their bread with unwashed hands?"
Mar 7:6
He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites,
as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their
heart is far from me.
Mar 7:7
But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men.'
Mar 7:8
"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to
the tradition of men-the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do
many other such things."
Mar 7:9
He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of
God, that you may keep your tradition.
Mar 7:10
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who
speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Mar 7:11
But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever
profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say,
given to God;" '
Mar 7:12
then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his
mother,
Mar 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed
down. You do many things like this."
Mar 7:14
He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear
me, all of you, and understand.
Mar 7:15
There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can
defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those
that defile the man.
Mar 7:16
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Mar 7:17
When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his
disciples asked him about the parable.
Mar 7:18
He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't
you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't
defile him,
Mar 7:19
because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into
the latrine, thus making all foods clean?"
Mar 7:20
He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the
man.
Mar 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mar 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
Mar 7:23
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
Mar 7:24
From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and
Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it,
but he couldn't escape notice.
Mar 7:25
For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having
heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
Mar 7:26
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him
that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mar 7:27
But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it
is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the
dogs."
Mar 7:28
But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the
table eat the children's crumbs."
Mar 7:29
He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has
gone out of your daughter."
Mar 7:30
She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on
the bed, with the demon gone out.
Mar 7:31
Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the
sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
Mar 7:32
They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his
speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
Mar 7:33
He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers
into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
Mar 7:34
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"
that is, "Be opened!"
Mar 7:35
Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue
was released, and he spoke clearly.
Mar 7:36
He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he
commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
Mar 7:37
They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all
things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
Mark 8
Mar 8:1
In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had
nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to
them,
Mar 8:2
"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Mar 8:3
If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the
way, for some of them have come a long way."
Mar 8:4
His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these
people with bread here in a deserted place?"
Mar 8:5
He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said,
"Seven."
Mar 8:6
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the
seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to
his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
Mar 8:7
They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve
these also.
Mar 8:8
They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken
pieces that were left over.
Mar 8:9
Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
Mar 8:10
Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came
into the region of Dalmanutha.
Mar 8:11
The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a
sign from heaven, and testing him.
Mar 8:12
He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this
generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be
given to this generation."
Mar 8:13
He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other
side.
Mar 8:14
They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in
the boat with them.
Mar 8:15
He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
Mar 8:16
They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no
bread."
Mar 8:17
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's
because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither
understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mar 8:18
Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you
remember?
Mar 8:19
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many
baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him,
"Twelve."
Mar 8:20
"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
Mar 8:21
He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
Mar 8:22
He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him
to touch him.
Mar 8:23
He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the
village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he
asked him if he saw anything.
Mar 8:24
He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees
walking."
Mar 8:25
Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was
restored, and saw everyone clearly.
Mar 8:26
He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the
village, nor tell anyone in the village."
Mar 8:27
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea
Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say
that I am?"
Mar 8:28
They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but
others: one of the prophets."
Mar 8:29
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter
answered, "You are the Christ."
Mar 8:30
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
Mar 8:31
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mar 8:32
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
Mar 8:33
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and
said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things
of God, but the things of men."
Mar 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to
them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
Mar 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will
lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Mar 8:36
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit
his life?
Mar 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mar 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him,
when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Aristotle
once wrote: “[T]he same attribute cannot at the same time belong and
not belong to the same subject and in the same respect…. [I]t is
impossible for the same man at the same time to believe the same thing
to be and not to be” (Aristotle, 4:4). It is impossible, for example,
for a single door to be completely shut and completely open at the same
time. Likewise, it is contradictory for a man to say, “Yesterday I never
left my house to go to the store,” if indeed he did leave his house
yesterday to go to the store. The fact is, nothing can both be and not
be for the same person, place, or thing, at the same time, and in the
same sense (cf. Jevons, 1928, p. 117). For a person to say otherwise, he
is either a liar or delusional.