Bible Reading February 9-11
(World English Bible)
Genesis
40
Gen
40:1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Gen
40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer
and the chief baker.
Gen
40:3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the
guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Gen
40:4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took
care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
Gen
40:5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night,
each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer
and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Gen
40:6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw
that they were sad.
Gen
40:7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his
master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
Gen
40:8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is
no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't
interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
Gen
40:9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,
"In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
Gen
40:10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it
budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe
grapes.
Gen
40:11 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and
pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand."
Gen
40:12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the
three branches are three days.
Gen
40:13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and
restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his
hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
Gen
40:14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show
kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring
me out of this house.
Gen
40:15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews,
and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the
dungeon."
Gen
40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three
baskets of white bread were on my head.
Gen
40:17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for
Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
Gen
40:18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three
baskets are three days.
Gen
40:19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from
off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your
flesh from off you."
Gen
40:20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that
he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of
the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his
servants.
Gen
40:21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he
gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
Gen
40:22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to
them.
Gen
40:23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot
him.
Genesis
41
Gen
41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and behold, he stood by the river.
Gen
41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Gen
41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river,
ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the
river.
Gen
41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.
So Pharaoh awoke.
Gen
41:5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of
grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
Gen
41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full
ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Gen
41:8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he
sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh
told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them
to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I
remember my faults today.
Gen
41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in
the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
Gen
41:11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
Gen
41:12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our
dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
Gen
41:13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored
me to my office, and he hanged him."
Gen
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and
there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,
that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen
41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God
will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
Gen
41:17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on
the brink of the river:
Gen
41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat
and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
Gen
41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and
very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
ugliness.
Gen
41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
Gen
41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that
they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
Gen
41:22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on
one stalk, full and good:
Gen
41:23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of
grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
Gen
41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one.
What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good
heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Gen
41:27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the
east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Gen
41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about
to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the
plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will
consume the land,
Gen
41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that
famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Gen
41:32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Gen
41:33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise
man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in
the seven plenteous years.
Gen
41:35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come,
and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities,
and let them keep it.
Gen
41:36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land
not perish through the famine."
Gen
41:37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
all his servants.
Gen
41:38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as
this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
Gen
41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of
this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
Gen
41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will
all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than
you."
Gen
41:41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all
the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold
chain about his neck,
Gen
41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had.
They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you
shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him
Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph
went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth
abundantly.
Gen
41:48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in
the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of
the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
Gen
41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until
he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Gen
41:50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For,"
he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house."
Gen
41:52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Gen
41:53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end.
Gen
41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had
said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
Gen
41:55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to
Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Gen
41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph
opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine
was severe in the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain,
because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Genesis
42
Gen
42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to
his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Gen
42:2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in
Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live,
and not die."
Gen
42:3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Gen
42:4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his
brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
Gen
42:5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the
famine was in the land of Canaan.
Gen
42:6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to
all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed
themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Gen
42:7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like
a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them,
"Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land
of Canaan to buy food."
Gen
42:8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
Gen
42:9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and
said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness
of the land."
Gen
42:10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have
come to buy food.
Gen
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants
are not spies."
Gen
42:12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the
nakedness of the land."
Gen
42:13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the
sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is
this day with our father, and one is no more."
Gen
42:14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You
are spies.'
Gen
42:15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall
not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Gen
42:16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall
be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in
you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
Gen
42:17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
Gen
42:18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live,
for I fear God.
Gen
42:19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound
in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your
houses.
Gen
42:20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be
verified, and you won't die." They did so.
Gen
42:21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when
he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has
come upon us."
Gen
42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying,
'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore
also, behold, his blood is required."
Gen
42:23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them.
Gen
42:24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned
to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and
bound him before their eyes.
Gen
42:25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and
to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for
the way. So it was done to them.
Gen
42:26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from
there.
Gen
42:27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the
lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his
sack.
Gen
42:28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold,
it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned
trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has
done to us?"
Gen
42:29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and
told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Gen
42:30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us,
and took us for spies of the country.
Gen
42:31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
Gen
42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
Gen
42:33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will
know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and
take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Gen
42:34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you
are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your
brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.' "
Gen
42:35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Gen
42:36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me
of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to
take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
Gen
42:37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if
I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring
him to you again."
Gen
42:38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his
brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along
the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to Sheol."
Feb. 8, 9
Matthew 20
Mat 20:1
"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a
household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his
vineyard.
Mat 20:2
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent
them into his vineyard.
Mat 20:3
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the
marketplace.
Mat 20:4
To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is
right I will give you.' So they went their way.
Mat 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did
likewise.
Mat 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle.
He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'
Mat 20:7
"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said
to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive
whatever is right.'
Mat 20:8
When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager,
'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last
to the first.'
Mat 20:9
"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they
each received a denarius.
Mat 20:10
When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and
they likewise each received a denarius.
Mat 20:11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the
household,
Mat 20:12
saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal
to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'
Mat 20:13
"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong.
Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?
Mat 20:14
Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to
this last just as much as to you.
Mat 20:15
Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is
your eye evil, because I am good?'
Mat 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called,
but few are chosen."
Mat 20:17
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples
aside, and on the way he said to them,
Mat 20:18
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will
be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn
him to death,
Mat 20:19
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to
crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."
Mat 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons,
kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
Mat 20:21
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him,
"Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right
hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
Mat 20:22
But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you
able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with
the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We
are able."
Mat 20:23
He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized
with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand
and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has
been prepared by my Father."
Mat 20:24
When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
Mat 20:25
But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of
the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise
authority over them.
Mat 20:26
It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great
among you shall be your servant.
Mat 20:27
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
Mat 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to
give his life as a ransom for many."
Mat 20:29
As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
Mat 20:30
Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus
was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of
David!"
Mat 20:31
The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet,
but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son
of David!"
Mat 20:32
Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want
me to do for you?"
Mat 20:33
They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."
Mat 20:34
Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and
immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
Matthew 21
Mat 21:1
When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the
Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
Mat 21:2
saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and
immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie
them, and bring them to me.
Mat 21:3
If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,'
and immediately he will send them."
Mat 21:4
All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
through the prophet, saying,
Mat 21:5
"Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you,
humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Mat 21:6
The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
Mat 21:7
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them;
and he sat on them.
Mat 21:8
A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut
branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
Mat 21:9
The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting,
"Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
Mat 21:10
When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying,
"Who is this?"
Mat 21:11
The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth
of Galilee."
Mat 21:12
Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who
sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers'
tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
Mat 21:13
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a
house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
Mat 21:14
The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Mat 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and
saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
Mat 21:16
and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus
said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of
babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?' "
Mat 21:17
He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
Mat 21:18
Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
Mat 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it
but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you
forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Mat 21:20
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the
fig tree immediately wither away?"
Mat 21:21
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have
faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig
tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into
the sea,' it would be done.
Mat 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Mat 21:23
When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of
the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what
authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
Mat 21:24
Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if
you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
Mat 21:25
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?"
They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Mat 21:26
But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John
as a prophet."
Mat 21:27
They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also
said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do
these things.
Mat 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first,
and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
Mat 21:29
He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and
went.
Mat 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go,
sir,' but he didn't go.
Mat 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him,
"The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I
tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering
into the Kingdom of God before you.
Mat 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't
believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him.
When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might
believe him.
Mat 21:33
"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a
household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a
winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went
into another country.
Mat 21:34
When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
farmers, to receive his fruit.
Mat 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned
another.
Mat 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated
them the same way.
Mat 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my
son.'
Mat 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This
is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
Mat 21:39
So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Mat 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to
those farmers?"
Mat 21:41
They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men,
and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him
the fruit in its season."
Mat 21:42
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The
stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the
corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
Mat 21:43
"Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away
from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.
Mat 21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever
it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
Mat 21:45
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they
perceived that he spoke about them.
Mat 21:46
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because
they considered him to be a prophet.
