Bible Reading April 2, 3
World English Bible
Leviticus
21, 22
Lev
21:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of
Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the
dead among his people;
Lev
21:2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother,
for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
Lev
21:3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no
husband; for her he may defile himself.
Lev
21:4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
people, to profane himself.
Lev
21:5 " 'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they
shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their
flesh.
Lev
21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of
their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the
bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
Lev
21:7 " 'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or
profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband:
for he is holy to his God.
Lev
21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of
your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am
holy.
Lev
21:9 " 'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by
playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned
with fire.
Lev
21:10 " 'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon
whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to
put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose,
nor tear his clothes;
Lev
21:11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
for his father, or for his mother;
Lev
21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God
is upon him. I am Yahweh.
Lev
21:13 " 'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev
21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or
a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own
people shall he take as a wife.
Lev
21:15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am
Yahweh who sanctifies him.' "
Lev
21:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
21:17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their
generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his
God.
Lev
21:18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw
near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any
deformity,
Lev
21:19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
Lev
21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his
eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
Lev
21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish,
shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since
has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Lev
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and
of the holy.
Lev
21:23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the
altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my
sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.' "
Lev
21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the
children of Israel.
Lev
22:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the
holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me,
and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:3 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your
generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel
make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall
be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:4 " 'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an
issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean.
Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
seed goes from him;
Lev
22:5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made
unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever
uncleanness he has;
Lev
22:6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the
evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his
body in water.
Lev
22:7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall
eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
Lev
22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not
eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:9 " 'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they
bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who
sanctifies them.
Lev
22:10 " 'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner
living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the
holy thing.
Lev
22:11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall
eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his
bread.
Lev
22:12 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall
not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Lev
22:13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no
child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she
may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
Lev
22:14 " 'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he
shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy
thing to the priest.
Lev
22:15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children
of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
Lev
22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when
they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.' "
Lev
22:17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:18 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children
of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of
the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any
of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer
to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
Lev
22:19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without
blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Lev
22:20 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it
shall not be acceptable for you.
Lev
22:21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to
accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the
flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish
therein.
Lev
22:22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a
running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an
offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
Lev
22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in
his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow
it shall not be accepted.
Lev
22:24 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut,
you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your
land.
Lev
22:25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of
a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them.
There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.' "
Lev
22:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:27 "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it
shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and
thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made
by fire to Yahweh.
Lev
22:28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its
young both in one day.
Lev
22:29 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to
Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Lev
22:30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it
until the morning. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I
am Yahweh.
Lev
22:32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy
among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
Lev
22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am
Yahweh."
Leviticus
23, 24
Lev
23:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set
feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
even these are my set feasts.
Lev
23:3 " 'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is
a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner
of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
Lev
23:4 " 'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy
convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
Lev
23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the
evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
Lev
23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread.
Lev
23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall
do no regular work.
Lev
23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven
days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no
regular work.' "
Lev
23:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When
you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its
the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of
your harvest to the priest:
Lev
23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for
you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev
23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Lev
23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh
for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of
wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Lev
23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh
grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of
your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
Lev
23:15 " 'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath,
from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
Sabbaths shall be completed:
Lev
23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall
number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
Lev
23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread
for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine
flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
Lev
23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a
year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt
offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink
offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
Lev
23:19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male
lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Lev
23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be
holy to Yahweh for the priest.
Lev
23:21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a
holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a
statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lev
23:22 " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and
for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
23:23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh
month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you,
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev
23:25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh.' "
Lev
23:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:27 "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the
day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you
shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh.
Lev
23:28 You shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a
day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
Lev
23:29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day;
shall be cut off from his people.
Lev
23:30 Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same day,
that person I will destroy from among his people.
Lev
23:31 You shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev
23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall
deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from
evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
Lev
23:33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the
fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven
days to Yahweh.
Lev
23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no
regular work.
Lev
23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly;
you shall do no regular work.
Lev
23:37 " 'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice,
and drink offerings, each on its own day;
Lev
23:38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and
besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which
you give to Yahweh.
Lev
23:39 " 'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you
have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of
Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on
the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Lev
23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
Lev
23:41 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it
is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it
in the seventh month.
Lev
23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born
in Israel shall dwell in booths,
Lev
23:43 that your generations may know that I made the children of
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
23:44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts
of Yahweh.
Lev
24:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
24:2 "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you
pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually.
Lev
24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting,
shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh
continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations.
Lev
24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand
before Yahweh continually.
Lev
24:5 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it:
two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
Lev
24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold
table before Yahweh.
Lev
24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to
the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Lev
24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh
continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an
everlasting covenant.
Lev
24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a
holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh
made by fire by a perpetual statute."
Lev
24:10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian,
went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite
woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
Lev
24:11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and
cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Lev
24:12 They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be
declared to them.
Lev
24:13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
24:14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who
heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation
stone him.
Lev
24:15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever
curses his God shall bear his sin.
Lev
24:16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put
to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the
foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name,
shall be put to death.
Lev
24:17 " 'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to
death.
Lev
24:18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for
life.
Lev
24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be
done to him:
Lev
24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has
injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
Lev
24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a
man shall be put to death.
Lev
24:22 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as
the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
24:23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth
him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The
children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Luke 3
Luk 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luk 3:2
in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to
John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
Luk 3:3
He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism
of repentance for remission of sins.
Luk 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The
voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the
Lord. Make his paths straight.
Luk 3:5
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought
low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
Luk 3:6
All flesh will see God's salvation.' "
Luk 3:7
He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by
him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the
wrath to come?
Luk 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to
say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell
you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these
stones!
Luk 3:9
Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree
therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown
into the fire."
Luk 3:10
The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
Luk 3:11
He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who
has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
Luk 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him,
"Teacher, what must we do?"
Luk 3:13
He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed
to you."
Luk 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we
do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence,
neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
Luk 3:15
As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their
hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
Luk 3:16
John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he
comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not
worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
Luk 3:17
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his
threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will
burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Luk 3:18
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the
people,
Luk 3:19
but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his
brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
Luk 3:20
added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luk 3:21
Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had
been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
Luk 3:22
and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and
a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In
you I am well pleased."
Luk 3:23
Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old,
being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Luk 3:24
the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of
Jannai, the son of Joseph,
Luk 3:25
the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of
Esli, the son of Naggai,
Luk 3:26
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son
of Joseph, the son of Judah,
Luk 3:27
the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son
of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
Luk 3:28
the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of
Elmodam, the son of Er,
Luk 3:29
the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of
Matthat, the son of Levi,
Luk 3:30
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of
Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
Luk 3:31
the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of
Nathan, the son of David,
Luk 3:32
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of
Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
Luk 3:33
the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of
Perez, the son of Judah,
Luk 3:34
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of
Terah, the son of Nahor,
Luk 3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,
the son of Shelah,
Luk 3:36
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of
Noah, the son of Lamech,
Luk 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of
Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
Luk 3:38
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
