Bible Reading February 14, 15
(World English Bible)
Genesis
45
Gen
45:1 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood
before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!"
No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his
brothers.
Gen
45:2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
Gen
45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father
still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were
terrified at his presence.
Gen
45:4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."
They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you
sold into Egypt.
Gen
45:5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold
me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen
45:6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there
are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor
harvest.
Gen
45:7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the
earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Gen
45:8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made
me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the
land of Egypt.
Gen
45:9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your
son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down
to me. Don't wait.
Gen
45:10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to
me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your
herds, and all that you have.
Gen
45:11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of
famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all
that you have." '
Gen
45:12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
Gen
45:13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all
that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."
Gen
45:14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin
wept on his neck.
Gen
45:15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his
brothers talked with him.
Gen
45:16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
"Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and
his servants.
Gen
45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this.
Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
Gen
45:18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I
will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat
of the land.'
Gen
45:19 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of
Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
father, and come.
Gen
45:20 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the
good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."
Gen
45:21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according
to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Gen
45:22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin
he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
Gen
45:23 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded
with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with
grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Gen
45:24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to
them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."
Gen
45:25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan,
to Jacob their father.
Gen
45:26 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is
ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for he
didn't believe them.
Gen
45:27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to
them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the
spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
Gen
45:28 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive.
I will go and see him before I die."
Genesis
46
Gen
46:1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba,
and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Gen
46:2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
"Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
Gen
46:3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be
afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great
nation.
Gen
46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring
you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
Gen
46:5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried
Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Gen
46:6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had
gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his
seed with him,
Gen
46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his
sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
Gen
46:8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Gen
46:9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Gen
46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Gen
46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Gen
46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er
and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron
and Hamul.
Gen
46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Gen
46:14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Gen
46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan
Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his
daughters were thirty-three.
Gen
46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and
Areli.
Gen
46:17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah
their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Gen
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his
daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Gen
46:19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen
46:20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi,
Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Gen
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the
souls were fourteen.
Gen
46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Gen
46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Gen
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his
daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Gen
46:26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his
direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
sixty-six.
Gen
46:27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two
souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were
seventy.
Gen
46:28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him
to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Gen
46:29 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his
father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen
46:30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen
your face, that you are still alive."
Gen
46:31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I
will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers,
and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to
me.
Gen
46:32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of
livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have.'
Gen
46:33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What
is your occupation?'
Gen
46:34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of
livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:'
that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination to the Egyptians."
Matthew 23
Mat 23:1
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2
saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.
Mat 23:3
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and
do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.
Mat 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay
them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger
to help them.
Mat 23:5
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their
phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Mat 23:6
and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the
synagogues,
Mat 23:7
the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi'
by men.
Mat 23:8
But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ,
and all of you are brothers.
Mat 23:9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who
is in heaven.
Mat 23:10
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
Mat 23:11
But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
Mat 23:12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself
will be exalted.
Mat 23:13
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour
widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore
you will receive greater condemnation.
Mat 23:14
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you
shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in
yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Mat 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around
by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you
make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
Mat 23:16
"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the
temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple,
he is obligated.'
Mat 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that
sanctifies the gold?
Mat 23:18
'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by
the gift that is on it, he is obligated?'
Mat 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that
sanctifies the gift?
Mat 23:20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything
on it.
Mat 23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living
in it.
Mat 23:22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who
sits on it.
Mat 23:23
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe
mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of
the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these,
and not to have left the other undone.
Mat 23:24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
Mat 23:25
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean
the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full
of extortion and unrighteousness.
Mat 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the
platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Mat 23:27
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are
full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mat 23:29
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build
the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
Mat 23:30
and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
Mat 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those
who killed the prophets.
Mat 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Mat 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the
judgment of Gehenna?
Mat 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes.
Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will
scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
Mat 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from
the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of
Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
Mat 23:36
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this
generation.
Mat 23:37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those
who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children
together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you
would not!
Mat 23:38
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
Mat 23:39
For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say,
'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "
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