Bible Reading April 19 (World English Bible)
Numbers
29, 30
Num
29:1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of
blowing of trumpets to you.
Num
29:2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without
blemish;
Num
29:3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth
parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
Num
29:4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Num
29:5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for
you;
Num
29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal
offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal
offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their
ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Num
29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner
of work;
Num
29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant
aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they
shall be to you without blemish;
Num
29:9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth
parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Num
29:10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
Num
29:11 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of
it, and their drink offerings.
Num
29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a
holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a
feast to Yahweh seven days:
Num
29:13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
Num
29:14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three
tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for
each ram of the two rams,
Num
29:15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
Num
29:16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:17 On the second day you shall offer
twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without
blemish;
Num
29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:19 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink
offerings.
Num
29:20 On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:22 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:23 On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls,
for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the
ordinance;
Num
29:25 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:26 On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:29 On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish;
Num
29:30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:31 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of
it.
Num
29:32 On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish;
Num
29:33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance;
Num
29:34 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual
burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of
it.
Num
29:35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall
do no servile work;
Num
29:36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male
lambs a year old without blemish;
Num
29:37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull,
for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number,
after the ordinance:
Num
29:38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual
burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it.
Num
29:39 You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides
your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and
for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your
peace offerings.
Num
29:40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh
commanded Moses.
Num
30:1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of
Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
Num
30:2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his
soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according
to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Num
30:3 Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a
bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
Num
30:4 and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has
bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her
vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul
shall stand.
Num
30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none
of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall
stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed
her.
Num
30:6 If she be married
to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her
lips, with which she has bound her soul,
Num
30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day
that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which
she has bound her soul shall stand.
Num
30:8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it,
then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash
utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh
will forgive her.
Num
30:9 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, even
everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against
her.
Num
30:10 If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a
bond with an oath,
Num
30:11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and
didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
with which she bound her soul shall stand.
Num
30:12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he
heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her
vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her
husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her.
Num
30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Num
30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day
to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are
on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in
the day that he heard them.
Num
30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has
heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Num
30:16 These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between
a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her
youth, in her father's house.
Apr. 18,
19
Luke 11
Luk 11:1
It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of
his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John
also taught his disciples."
Luk 11:2
He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, may
your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done
on Earth, as it is in heaven.
Luk 11:3
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk 11:4
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is
indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one.' "
Luk 11:5
He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at
midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
Luk 11:6
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have
nothing to set before him,'
Luk 11:7
and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is
now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give
it to you'?
Luk 11:8
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he
is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and
give him as many as he needs.
Luk 11:9
"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep
seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to
you.
Luk 11:10
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks
it will be opened.
Luk 11:11
"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him
a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead
of a fish, will he?
Luk 11:12
Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Luk 11:13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him?"
Luk 11:14
He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the
demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
Luk 11:15
But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the
prince of the demons."
Luk 11:16
Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
Luk 11:17
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided
against itself falls.
Luk 11:18
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
Luk 11:19
But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast
them out? Therefore will they be your judges.
Luk 11:20
But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of
God has come to you.
Luk 11:21
"When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his
goods are safe.
Luk 11:22
But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes
from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
Luk 11:23
"He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather
with me scatters.
Luk 11:24
The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through
dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn
back to my house from which I came out.'
Luk 11:25
When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
Luk 11:26
Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself,
and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes
worse than the first."
Luk 11:27
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the
multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the
womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
Luk 11:28
But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the
word of God, and keep it."
Luk 11:29
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say,
"This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will
be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
Luk 11:30
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the
Son of Man be to this generation.
Luk 11:31
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of
this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of
the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than
Solomon is here.
Luk 11:32
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this
generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching
of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
Luk 11:33
"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a
basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
Luk 11:34
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good,
your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body
also is full of darkness.
Luk 11:35
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.
Luk 11:36
If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark,
it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright
shining gives you light."
Luk 11:37
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He
went in, and sat at the table.
Luk 11:38
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed
himself before dinner.
Luk 11:39
The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of
the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion
and wickedness.
Luk 11:40
You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside
also?
Luk 11:41
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and
behold, all things will be clean to you.
Luk 11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb,
but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done
these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luk 11:43
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues,
and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Luk 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
Luk 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you
insult us also."
Luk 11:46
He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens
that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one
finger to help carry those burdens.
Luk 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers
killed them.
Luk 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they
killed them, and you build their tombs.
Luk 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets
and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
Luk 11:50
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luk 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished
between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be
required of this generation.
Luk 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You
didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you
hindered."
Luk 11:53
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began
to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
Luk 11:54
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might
say, that they might accuse him.
Societies
throughout human history have tended to cycle through the same
patterns: acknowledging God, denying God, embracing moral depravity,
receiving punishment and destruction from God, repenting, and then
recycling again. The Israelites of the Old Testament repeated this cycle
several times as recorded in the book of Judges. The pattern starts
with human eyes looking upward, worshipping God. As time goes by, we
tend to lower our eyes from God, gaze at ourselves, and proclaim that we
are more wise and intelligent than God. Many decide that He’s
unnecessary and pretend that He does not exist. Humans are then
idolized—Caesars, popes, Hollywood stars, American idols. This phase of
the cycle commenced in America in the last half century and is
illustrated in the world around us in a myriad of ways.
