Bible Reading April 13 (World English Bible)
Apr.
13
Numbers
17, 18
Num
17:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
17:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for
each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers'
houses, twelve rods: write every man's name on his rod.
Num
17:3 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there
shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
Num
17:4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the
testimony, where I meet with you.
Num
17:5 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose
shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the
children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
Num
17:6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes
gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers'
houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Num
17:7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the
testimony.
Num
17:8 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of
the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was
budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe
almonds.
Num
17:9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the
children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Num
17:10 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the
testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they
not die.
Num
17:11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
Num
17:12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we
perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Num
17:13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of
Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
Num
18:1 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house
with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your
sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Num
18:2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your
father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and
minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the
tent of the testimony.
Num
18:3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent:
only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to
the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
Num
18:4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the
Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger
shall not come near to you.
Num
18:5 You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of
the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
Num
18:6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among
the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to
do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Num
18:7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for
everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall
serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the
stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Num
18:8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the command
of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of
Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to
your sons, as a portion forever.
Num
18:9 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved
from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of
theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering
of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you
and for your sons.
Num
18:10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male
shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
Num
18:11 This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all
the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to
you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion
forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
Num
18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and
of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to
you have I given them.
Num
18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they
bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house
shall eat of it.
Num
18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
Num
18:15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer
to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you
shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the
firstborn of unclean animals.
Num
18:16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a
month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money,
after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
Num
18:17 But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the
firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You
shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for
an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Num
18:18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as
the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Num
18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your
daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt
forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
Num
18:20 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their
land, neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your
portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
Num
18:21 To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in
Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they
serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Num
18:22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent
of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
Num
18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting,
and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
Num
18:24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a
wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an
inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of
Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Num
18:25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
18:26 Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When
you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you
from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave
offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
Num
18:27 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were
the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the
winepress.
Num
18:28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all
your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it
you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
Num
18:29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of
Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.
Num
18:30 Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave its best from
it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the
threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Num
18:31 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for
it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
Num
18:32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved
from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, that you not die.
Apr. 12,
13
Luke 8
Luk 8:1
It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and
villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God.
With him were the twelve,
Luk 8:2
and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and
infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons
had gone out;
Luk 8:3
and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many
others; who served them from their possessions.
Luk 8:4
When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were
coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
Luk 8:5
"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell
along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the
sky devoured it.
Luk 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered
away, because it had no moisture.
Luk 8:7
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked
it.
Luk 8:8
Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit
one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He
who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Luk 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
Luk 8:10
He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the
Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may
not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
Luk 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luk 8:12
Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and
takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and
be saved.
Luk 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with
joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away
in time of temptation.
Luk 8:14
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and
as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and
pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
Luk 8:15
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good
heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit
with patience.
Luk 8:16
"No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or
puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in
may see the light.
Luk 8:17
For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything
secret, that will not be known and come to light.
Luk 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be
given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even
that which he thinks he has."
Luk 8:19
His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him
for the crowd.
Luk 8:20
It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers
stand outside, desiring to see you."
Luk 8:21
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who
hear the word of God, and do it."
Luk 8:22
Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat,
himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over
to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.
Luk 8:23
But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the
lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
Luk 8:24
They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are
dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the
water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
Luk 8:25
He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they
marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he
commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
Luk 8:26
They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite
Galilee.
Luk 8:27
When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had
demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live
in a house, but in the tombs.
Luk 8:28
When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a
loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son
of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
Luk 8:29
For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under
guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart,
he was driven by the demon into the desert.
Luk 8:30
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion,"
for many demons had entered into him.
Luk 8:31
They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Luk 8:32
Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and
they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He
allowed them.
Luk 8:33
The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the
herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
Luk 8:34
When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it
in the city and in the country.
Luk 8:35
People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and
found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus'
feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Luk 8:36
Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons
was healed.
Luk 8:37
All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him
to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into
the boat, and returned.
Luk 8:38
But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he
might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luk 8:39
"Return to your house, and declare what great things God has
done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole
city what great things Jesus had done for him.
Luk 8:40
It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him,
for they were all waiting for him.
Luk 8:41
Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the
synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into
his house,
Luk 8:42
for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was
dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
Luk 8:43
A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all
her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
Luk 8:44
came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately
the flow of her blood stopped.
Luk 8:45
Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and
those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle
you, and you say, 'Who touched me?' "
Luk 8:46
But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that
power has gone out of me."
Luk 8:47
When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and
falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the
people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed
immediately.
Luk 8:48
He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you
well. Go in peace."
Luk 8:49
While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's house
came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don't trouble the
Teacher."
Luk 8:50
But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don't be afraid. Only
believe, and she will be healed."
Luk 8:51
When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, except
Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
Luk 8:52
All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She
isn't dead, but sleeping."
Luk 8:53
They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
Luk 8:54
But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called,
saying, "Child, arise!"
Luk 8:55
Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that
something be given to her to eat.
Luk 8:56
Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what
had been done.
