Bible Reading March 4 and 5
World English Bible
Exodus
14
Exo
14:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
14:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and
encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal
Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
Exo
14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled
in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
Exo
14:4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them;
and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the
Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
Exo
14:5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the
heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people,
and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let
Israel go from serving us?"
Exo
14:6 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
Exo
14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
Exo
14:8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he
pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went
out with a high hand.
Exo
14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots
of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping
by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
Exo
14:10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their
eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they
were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
Exo
14:11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in
Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you
treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
Exo
14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,
'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better
for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness."
Exo
14:13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still,
and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today:
for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them
again.
Exo
14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."
Exo
14:15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the
children of Israel, that they go forward.
Exo
14:16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the
sea on dry ground.
Exo
14:17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and
over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
Exo
14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten
myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
Exo
14:19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved
and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them,
and stood behind them.
Exo
14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and
there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and
the one didn't come near the other all the night.
Exo
14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the
sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exo
14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the
dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand,
and on their left.
Exo
14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst
of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo
14:24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
confused the Egyptian army.
Exo
14:25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily;
so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel,
for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
Exo
14:26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the
sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their
chariots, and on their horsemen."
Exo
14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
Exo
14:28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the
horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the
sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
Exo
14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of
the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and
on their left.
Exo
14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Exo
14:31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians,
and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his
servant Moses.
Exodus
15
Exo
15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh,
and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed
gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Exo
15:2 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This
is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt
him.
Exo
15:3 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
Exo
15:4 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His
chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
Exo
15:5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a
stone.
Exo
15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand,
Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
Exo
15:7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who
rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as
stubble.
Exo
15:8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The
floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart
of the sea.
Exo
15:9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide
the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my
sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
Exo
15:10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like
lead in the mighty waters.
Exo
15:11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exo
15:12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
Exo
15:13 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that
you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy
habitation.
Exo
15:14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on
the inhabitants of Philistia.
Exo
15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of
the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted
away.
Exo
15:16 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm
they are as still as a stone-- until your people pass over, Yahweh,
until the people pass over who you have purchased.
Exo
15:17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself
to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
Exo
15:18 Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
Exo
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the
sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the
midst of the sea.
Exo
15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine
in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines
and with dances.
Exo
15:21 Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has
triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the
sea."
Exo
15:22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out
into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the
wilderness, and found no water.
Exo
15:23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters
of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
Exo
15:24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we
drink?"
Exo
15:25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he
threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he
made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
Exo
15:26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and
will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I
will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the
Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
Exo
15:27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water,
and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
Mar. 4
Mark 4
Mar 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was
gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat
down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
Mar 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his
teaching,
Mar 4:3
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
Mar 4:4
and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the
birds came and devoured it.
Mar 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and
immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Mar 4:6
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root,
it withered away.
Mar 4:7
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it,
and it yielded no fruit.
Mar 4:8
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and
increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and
some one hundred times as much."
Mar 4:9
He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mar
4:10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve
asked him about the parables.
Mar
4:11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the
Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in
parables,
Mar
4:12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they
may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again,
and their sins should be forgiven them.' "
Mar
4:13 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How
will you understand all of the parables?
Mar
4:14 The farmer sows the word.
Mar
4:15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and
when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the
word which has been sown in them.
Mar
4:16 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky
places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it
with joy.
Mar
4:17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When
oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately
they stumble.
Mar
4:18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those
who have heard the word,
Mar
4:19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and
the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes
unfruitful.
Mar
4:20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the
word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty
times, and some one hundred times."
Mar
4:21 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a
basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?
Mar
4:22 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made
known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to
light.
Mar
4:23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mar
4:24 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever
measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be
given to you who hear.
Mar
4:25 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't
have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."
Mar
4:26 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast
seed on the earth,
Mar
4:27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should
spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
Mar
4:28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then
the full grain in the ear.
Mar
4:29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the
sickle, because the harvest has come."
Mar
4:30 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with
what parable will we illustrate it?
Mar
4:31 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in
the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the
earth,
Mar
4:32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the
herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can
lodge under its shadow."
Mar
4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were
able to hear it.
Mar
4:34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his
own disciples he explained everything.
Mar
4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's
go over to the other side."
Mar
4:36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was,
in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
Mar
4:37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so
much that the boat was already filled.
Mar
4:38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they
woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are
dying?"
Mar
4:39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace!
Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mar
4:40 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that
you have no faith?"
Mar
4:41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who
then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
Mark 5
Mar 5:1
They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Gadarenes.
Mar 5:2
When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean
spirit met him out of the tombs.
Mar 5:3
He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with
chains,
Mar 5:4
because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the
chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces.
Nobody had the strength to tame him.
Mar 5:5
Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was
crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
Mar 5:6
When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
Mar 5:7
and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do
with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God,
don't torment me."
Mar 5:8
For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
Mar 5:9
He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My
name is Legion, for we are many."
Mar
5:10 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
Mar
5:11 Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
Mar
5:12 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs,
that we may enter into them."
Mar
5:13 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came
out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed
down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
Mar
5:14 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the
country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.
Mar
5:15 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by
demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the
legion; and they were afraid.
Mar
5:16 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who
was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
Mar
5:17 They began to beg him to depart from their region.
Mar
5:18 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by
demons begged him that he might be with him.
Mar
5:19 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house,
to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done
for you, and how he had mercy on you."
Mar
5:20 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus
had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
Mar
5:21 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side,
a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
Mar
5:22 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name,
came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
Mar
5:23 and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the
point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may
be made healthy, and live."
Mar
5:24 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they
pressed upon him on all sides.
Mar
5:25 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
Mar
5:26 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent
all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
Mar
5:27 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in
the crowd, and touched his clothes.
Mar
5:28 For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made
well."
Mar
5:29 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in
her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Mar
5:30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had
gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who
touched my clothes?"
Mar
5:31 His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing
against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?' "
Mar
5:32 He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
Mar
5:33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been
done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth.
Mar
5:34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well.
Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
Mar
5:35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue
ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the
Teacher any more?"
Mar
5:36 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said
to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
Mar
5:37 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John
the brother of James.
Mar
5:38 He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar,
weeping, and great wailing.
Mar
5:39 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make
an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
Mar
5:40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the
father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and
went in where the child was lying.
Mar
5:41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha
cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you,
get up!"
Mar
5:42 Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve
years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
Mar
5:43 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and
commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
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