Bible Reading March 12, 13
(World English Bible)
Exodus
22
Exo
22:1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells
it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exo
22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he
dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
Exo
22:3 If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed
for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall
be sold for his theft.
Exo
22:4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it
is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
Exo
22:5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets
his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make
restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his
own vineyard.
Exo
22:6 "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the
shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he
who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exo
22:7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep,
and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he
shall pay double.
Exo
22:8 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall
come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his
neighbor's goods.
Exo
22:9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey,
for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which
one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before
God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
Exo
22:10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a
sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven
away, no man seeing it;
Exo
22:11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he
hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall
accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Exo
22:12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its
owner.
Exo
22:13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He
shall not make good that which was torn.
Exo
22:14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is
injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make
restitution.
Exo
22:15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a
leased thing, it came for its lease.
Exo
22:16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be
married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be
his wife.
Exo
22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay
money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exo
22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exo
22:19 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to
death.
Exo
22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only,
shall be utterly destroyed.
Exo
22:21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress
him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exo
22:22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless
child.
Exo
22:23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to
me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exo
22:24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exo
22:25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is
poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge
him interest.
Exo
22:26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall
restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exo
22:27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.
What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I
will hear, for I am gracious.
Exo
22:28 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your
people.
Exo
22:29 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from
the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of
your sons to me.
Exo
22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep.
Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you
shall give it to me.
Exo
22:31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat
any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to
the dogs.
Exodus
23
Exo
23:1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand
with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Exo
23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you
testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
Exo
23:3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
Exo
23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray,
you shall surely bring it back to him again.
Exo
23:5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under
his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
Exo
23:6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their
lawsuits.
Exo
23:7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exo
23:8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who
have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exo
23:9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of
an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exo
23:10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather
in its increase,
Exo
23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal
of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your
vineyard and with your olive grove.
Exo
23:12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day
you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the
son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
Exo
23:13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and
don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of
your mouth.
Exo
23:14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
Exo
23:15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days
you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time
appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and
no one shall appear before me empty.
Exo
23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors,
which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of
the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
Exo
23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord Yahweh.
Exo
23:18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night
until the morning.
Exo
23:19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in
its mother's milk.
Exo
23:20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the
way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exo
23:21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke
him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Exo
23:22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I
speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to
your adversaries.
Exo
23:23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the
Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
Exo
23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor
follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and
demolish their pillars.
Exo
23:25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread
and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
Exo
23:26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill
the number of your days.
Exo
23:27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the
people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their
backs to you.
Exo
23:28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
Exo
23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest
the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply
against you.
Exo
23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until
you have increased and inherit the land.
Exo
23:31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver
the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them
out before you.
Exo
23:32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exo
23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin
against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to
you."
Mark 8
Mar 8:1
In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had
nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to
them,
Mar 8:2
"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Mar 8:3
If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the
way, for some of them have come a long way."
Mar 8:4
His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these
people with bread here in a deserted place?"
Mar 8:5
He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said,
"Seven."
Mar 8:6
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the
seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to
his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
Mar 8:7
They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve
these also.
Mar 8:8
They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken
pieces that were left over.
Mar 8:9
Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
Mar 8:10
Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came
into the region of Dalmanutha.
Mar 8:11
The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a
sign from heaven, and testing him.
Mar 8:12
He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this
generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be
given to this generation."
Mar 8:13
He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other
side.
Mar 8:14
They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in
the boat with them.
Mar 8:15
He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
Mar 8:16
They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no
bread."
Mar 8:17
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's
because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither
understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mar 8:18
Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you
remember?
Mar 8:19
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many
baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him,
"Twelve."
Mar 8:20
"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
Mar 8:21
He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
Mar 8:22
He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him
to touch him.
Mar 8:23
He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the
village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he
asked him if he saw anything.
Mar 8:24
He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees
walking."
Mar 8:25
Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was
restored, and saw everyone clearly.
Mar 8:26
He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the
village, nor tell anyone in the village."
Mar 8:27
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea
Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say
that I am?"
Mar 8:28
They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but
others: one of the prophets."
Mar 8:29
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter
answered, "You are the Christ."
Mar 8:30
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
Mar 8:31
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mar 8:32
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
Mar 8:33
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and
said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things
of God, but the things of men."
Mar 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to
them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
Mar 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will
lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Mar 8:36
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit
his life?
Mar 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mar 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him,
when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Mark 9
Mar 9:1
He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some
standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the
Kingdom of God come with power."
Mar 9:2
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and
brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he
was changed into another form in front of them.
Mar 9:3
His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as
no launderer on earth can whiten them.
Mar 9:4
Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
Mar 9:5
Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.
Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah."
Mar 9:6
For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
Mar 9:7 A
cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud,
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Mar 9:8
Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except
Jesus only.
Mar 9:9
As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that
they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the
Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Mar 9:10
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising
from the dead" meant.
Mar 9:11
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must
come first?"
Mar 9:12
He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all
things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer
many things and be despised?
Mar 9:13
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him
whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
Mar 9:14
Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and
scribes questioning them.
Mar 9:15
Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly
amazed, and running to him greeted him.
Mar 9:16
He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
Mar 9:17
One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my
son, who has a mute spirit;
Mar 9:18
and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the
mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples
to cast it out, and they weren't able."
Mar 9:19
He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be
with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
Mar 9:20
They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit
convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at
the mouth.
Mar 9:21
He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come
to him?" He said, "From childhood.
Mar 9:22
Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to
destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and
help us."
Mar 9:23
Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible
to him who believes."
Mar 9:24
Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I
believe. Help my unbelief!"
Mar 9:25
When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the
unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I
command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"
Mar 9:26
Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy
became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is
dead."
Mar 9:27
But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
Mar 9:28
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately,
"Why couldn't we cast it out?"
Mar 9:29
He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by
prayer and fasting."
Mar 9:30
They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want
anyone to know it.
Mar 9:31
For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of
Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him;
and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."
Mar 9:32
But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Mar 9:33
He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them,
"What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"
Mar 9:34
But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the
way about who was the greatest.
Mar 9:35
He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any
man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."
Mar 9:36
He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him
in his arms, he said to them,
Mar 9:37
"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me,
and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
Mar 9:38
John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us
casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he
doesn't follow us."
Mar 9:39
But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will
do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
Mar 9:40
For whoever is not against us is on our side.
Mar 9:41
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because
you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose
his reward.
Mar 9:42
Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to
stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea
with a millstone hung around his neck.
Mar 9:43
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you
to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go
into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
Mar 9:44
'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar 9:45
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you
to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast
into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched-
Mar 9:46
'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar 9:47
If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you
to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two
eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
Mar 9:48
'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar 9:49
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be
seasoned with salt.
Mar 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will
you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one
another."
