Bible Reading February 28, March 1
World English Bible
Exodus
9
Exo
9:1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him,
'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my
people go, that they may serve me.
Exo
9:2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
Exo
9:3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the
field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds,
and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
Exo
9:4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel
and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that
belongs to the children of Israel." ' "
Exo
9:5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall
do this thing in the land."
Exo
9:6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of
Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one
died.
Exo
9:7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the
livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was
stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
Exo
9:8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of
ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the
sight of Pharaoh.
Exo
9:9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall
be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, throughout
all the land of Egypt."
Exo
9:10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and
Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking
forth with boils on man and on animal.
Exo
9:11 The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils;
for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.
Exo
9:12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to
them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
Exo
9:13 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of
the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo
9:14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart,
against your officials, and against your people; that you may know
that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exo
9:15 For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your
people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the
earth;
Exo
9:16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my
power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
Exo
9:17 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't
let them go.
Exo
9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very
grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was
founded even until now.
Exo
9:19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that
you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal
that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall
come down on them, and they shall die." ' "
Exo
9:20 Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of
Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
Exo
9:21 Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and
his livestock in the field.
Exo
9:22 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the
sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on
animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of
Egypt."
Exo
9:23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh
sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh
rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Exo
9:24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the
hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a
nation.
Exo
9:25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was
in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of
the field, and broke every tree of the field.
Exo
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
there was no hail.
Exo
9:27 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them,
"I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my
people are wicked.
Exo
9:28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings
and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
Exo
9:29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the
city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall
cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that
the earth is Yahweh's.
Exo
9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet
fear Yahweh God."
Exo
9:31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the
ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Exo
9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not
grown up.
Exo
9:33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his
hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was
not poured on the earth.
Exo
9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
servants.
Exo
9:35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the
children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
Exodus
10
Exo
10:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show
these my signs in the midst of them,
Exo
10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your
son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I
have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
Exo
10:3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This
is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you
refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may
serve me.
Exo
10:4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I
will bring locusts into your country,
Exo
10:5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one
won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that
which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat
every tree which grows for you out of the field.
Exo
10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your
fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they
were on the earth to this day.' " He turned, and went out from
Pharaoh.
Exo
10:7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be
a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God.
Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
Exo
10:8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to
them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will
go?"
Exo
10:9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old;
with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our
herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."
Exo
10:10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go
with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
Exo
10:11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is
what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
Exo
10:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the
land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of
Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has
left."
Exo
10:13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the
night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exo
10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in
all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there
were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exo
10:15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the
land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the
fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing
green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of
Egypt.
Exo
10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said,
"I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
Exo
10:17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh
your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
Exo
10:18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
Exo
10:19 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the
locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one
locust in all the borders of Egypt.
Exo
10:20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the
children of Israel go.
Exo
10:21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the
sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
which may be felt."
Exo
10:22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a
thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
Exo
10:23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his
place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in
their dwellings.
Exo
10:24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh.
Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones
also go with you."
Exo
10:25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices
and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
Exo
10:26 Our livestock also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be
left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we
don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."
Exo
10:27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them
go.
Exo
10:28 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see
my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"
Exo
10:29 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face
again no more."
Mar.1
Exodus
11
Exo
11:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on
Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets
you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
Exo
11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man
of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold."
Exo
11:3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
Exo
11:4 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I
will go out into the midst of Egypt,
Exo
11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the
firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of
the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of
livestock.
Exo
11:6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.
Exo
11:7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark
or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that
Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exo
11:8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down
themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who
follow you;" and after that I will go out.' " He went out
from Pharaoh in hot anger.
Exo
11:9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that
my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
Exo
11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and
Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of
Israel go out of his land.
Feb. 28
Mark 2
Mar 2:1
When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard
that he was in the house.
Mar 2:2
Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more
room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
Mar 2:3
Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
Mar 2:4
When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the
roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat
that the paralytic was lying on.
Mar 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your
sins are forgiven you."
Mar 2:6
But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in
their hearts,
Mar 2:7
"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive
sins but God alone?"
Mar 2:8
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned
within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things
in your hearts?
Mar 2:9
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or
to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
Mar 2:10
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins" -he said to the paralytic-
Mar 2:11
"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
Mar 2:12
He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of
them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying,
"We never saw anything like this!"
Mar 2:13
He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and
he taught them.
Mar 2:14
As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax
office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and
followed him.
Mar 2:15
It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and
many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his
disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
Mar 2:16
The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with
the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is
it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
Mar 2:17
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy
have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to
call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Mar 2:18
John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and
asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the
Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
Mar 2:19
Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom
is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they
can't fast.
Mar 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from
them, and then will they fast in that day.
Mar 2:21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the
patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole
is made.
Mar 2:22
No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will
burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be
destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
Mar 2:23
It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain
fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of
grain.
Mar 2:24
The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is
not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
Mar 2:25
He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had
need, and was hungry-he, and those who were with him?
Mar 2:26
How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest,
and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the
priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
Mar 2:27
He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the
Sabbath.
Mar 2:28
Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
Mar.1
Mark 3
Mar 3:1
He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who
had his hand withered.
Mar 3:2
They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that
they might accuse him.
Mar 3:3
He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
Mar 3:4
He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or
to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
Mar 3:5
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the
hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your
hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy
as the other.
Mar 3:6
The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians
against him, how they might destroy him.
Mar 3:7
Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude
followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
Mar 3:8
from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from
around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things
he did, came to him.
Mar 3:9
He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him
because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
Mar 3:10
For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on
him that they might touch him.
Mar 3:11
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and
cried, "You are the Son of God!"
Mar 3:12
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
Mar 3:13
He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he
wanted, and they went to him.
Mar 3:14
He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might
send them out to preach,
Mar 3:15
and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
Mar 3:16
Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;
Mar 3:17
James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed
them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;
Mar 3:18
Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of
Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
Mar 3:19
and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.
Mar 3:20
The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as
eat bread.
Mar 3:21
When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said,
"He is insane."
Mar 3:22
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has
Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out
the demons."
Mar 3:23
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan
cast out Satan?
Mar 3:24
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mar 3:25
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mar 3:26
If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't
stand, but has an end.
Mar 3:27
But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder,
unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his
house.
Mar 3:28
Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be
forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;
Mar 3:29
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has
forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
Mar 3:30
-because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Mar 3:31
His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to
him, calling him.
Mar 3:32
A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold,
your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for
you."
Mar 3:33
He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
Mar 3:34
Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my
mother and my brothers!
Mar 3:35
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my
sister, and mother."
When I turn on my TV to watch the evening news, its hard not to notice
how divided this country is. The political left is becoming more
radically left and the right is also more right. Its no wonder they
can't agree on anything. Whatever happened to the spirit of compromise
"for the good of the country"?
