Bible Reading April 5 (World English Bible)
Numbers
1, 2
Num
1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of
Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year
after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Num
1:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, every male, one by one;
Num
1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to
war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.
Num
1:4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of
his fathers' house.
Num
1:5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of
Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Num
1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Num
1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Num
1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Num
1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
Num
1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of
Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Num
1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Num
1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Num
1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Num
1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Num
1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
Num
1:16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the
princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the
thousands of Israel.
Num
1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
Num
1:18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day
of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
Num
1:19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Num
1:20 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number
of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num
1:21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were
forty-six thousand five hundred.
Num
1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it,
according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num
1:23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were
fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num
1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num
1:25 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
Num
1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num
1:27 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were
sixty-four thousand six hundred.
Num
1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war;
Num
1:29 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were
fifty-four thousand four hundred.
Num
1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war;
Num
1:31 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num
1:32 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who
were able to go out to war;
Num
1:33 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were
forty thousand five hundred.
Num
1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war;
Num
1:35 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were
thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num
1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war;
Num
1:37 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were
thirty-five thousand four hundred.
Num
1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Num
1:39 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num
1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Num
1:41 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were
forty-one thousand five hundred.
Num
1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go
forth to war;
Num
1:43 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were
fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num
1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each
one for his fathers' house.
Num
1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by
their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were
able to go out to war in Israel;
Num
1:46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three
thousand five hundred fifty.
Num
1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
Num
1:48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
1:49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither
shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
Num
1:50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony,
and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They
shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall
take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
Num
1:51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down;
and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up.
The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Num
1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by
his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their
divisions.
Num
1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the
Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the
children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the
Tabernacle of the Testimony."
Num
1:54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses, so they did.
Num
2:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Num
2:2 "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own
standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance
from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it."
Num
2:3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of
the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and
the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of
Amminadab.
Num
2:4 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Num
2:5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and
the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of
Zuar.
Num
2:6 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four
thousand four hundred.
Num
2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun
shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
Num
2:8 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num
2:9 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred
eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They
shall set out first.
Num
2:10 "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of
Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of
Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Num
2:11 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six
thousand five hundred.
Num
2:12 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of
Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
Num
2:13 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num
2:14 "The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad
shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Num
2:15 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
Num
2:16 "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one
hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their
armies. They shall set out second.
Num
2:17 "Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of
the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they
set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
Num
2:18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of
Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children
of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Num
2:19 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty
thousand five hundred.
Num
2:20 "Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the
prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
Num
2:21 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num
2:22 "The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of
Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Num
2:23 His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five
thousand four hundred.
Num
2:24 "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one
hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions.
They shall set out third.
Num
2:25 "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of
Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of
Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Num
2:26 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num
2:27 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher:
and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of
Ochran.
Num
2:28 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
forty-one thousand and five hundred.
Num
2:29 "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of
Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
Num
2:30 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were
fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num
2:31 "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred
fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their
standards."
Num
2:32 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by
their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according
to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
Num
2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel;
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
2:34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set
out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
Luke 4
Luk 4:1
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led
by the Spirit into the wilderness
Luk 4:2
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those
days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
Luk 4:3
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this
stone to become bread."
Luk 4:4
Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word of God.' "
Luk 4:5
The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the
kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6
The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and
their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to
whomever I want.
Luk 4:7
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
Luk 4:8
Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written,
'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'
"
Luk 4:9
He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down
from here,
Luk 4:10
for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard
you;'
Luk 4:11
and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash
your foot against a stone.' "
Luk 4:12
Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not
tempt the Lord your God.' "
Luk 4:13
When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him
until another time.
Luk 4:14
Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news
about him spread through all the surrounding area.
Luk 4:15
He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Luk 4:16
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was
his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to
read.
Luk 4:17
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book,
and found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to
preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of
sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Luk 4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
Luk 4:20
He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The
eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled
in your hearing."
Luk 4:22
All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which
proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's
son?"
Luk 4:23
He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable,
'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum,
do also here in your hometown.' "
Luk 4:24
He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in
his hometown.
Luk 4:25
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of
Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a
great famine came over all the land.
Luk 4:26
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of
Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Luk 4:27
There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet,
yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
Luk 4:28
They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these
things.
Luk 4:29
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of
the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off
the cliff.
Luk 4:30
But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
Luk 4:31
He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on
the Sabbath day,
Luk 4:32
and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with
authority.
Luk 4:33
In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean
demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
Luk 4:34
saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of
God!"
Luk 4:35
Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"
When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of
him, having done him no harm.
Luk 4:36
Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another,
saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he
commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
Luk 4:37
News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
Luk 4:38
He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house.
Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they
begged him for her.
Luk 4:39
He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her.
Immediately she rose up and served them.
Luk 4:40
When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various
diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of
them, and healed them.
Luk 4:41
Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are
the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them
to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luk 4:42
When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and
the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him,
so that he wouldn't go away from them.
Luk 4:43
But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom
of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."
Luk 4:44
He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
Three
times in the Old Testament, it is stated that seventy people from the
house of Jacob went down into Egypt. According to Genesis 46:27, “All
the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.”
In the first few verses of the book of Exodus, Jacob’s sons are named,
and then again we are told, “All those who were descendants of Jacob
were seventy persons” (Exodus 1:1,5). The third Old Testament
reference to this number is found in Deuteronomy 10:22, where Moses
spoke to the Israelites about the “great and awesome things” that God
had done for them (10:21). He then reminded the children of Israel of
how their “fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons,”
which Jehovah made “as the stars of heaven in multitude” (Deuteronomy
10:22). The difficulty that Christians are challenged to resolve is how
these verses can be understood in light of Stephen’s statement recorded
in Acts 7:12-14. Being “full of the Holy Spirit” (7:55) with a “face as
the face of an angel” (6:15), Stephen reminded the Jews of their
history, saying, “When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he
sent out our fathers first. And the second time Joseph was made known to
his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people”
(Acts 7:12-14, emp. added). Skeptics, as well as concerned Christians
who seek to back their faith with reasonable answers, desire to know why
Acts 7:14 mentions “seventy-five people,” while Genesis 46:27, Exodus
1:5, and Deuteronomy 10:22 mention only “seventy persons.” Exactly how
many of Jacob’s household went to Egypt?