Bible Reading February 14 - 16
World English Bible
Feb.
14
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."
Genesis
47
Gen
47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father
and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they
own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the
land of Goshen."
Gen
47:2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to
Pharaoh.
Gen
47:3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"
They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and
our fathers."
Gen
47:4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners
in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For
the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let
your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
Gen
47:5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your
brothers have come to you.
Gen
47:6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your
brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of
Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge
of my livestock."
Gen
47:7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before
Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Gen
47:8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years
of your life?"
Gen
47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the
days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days
of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage."
Gen
47:10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of
Pharaoh.
Gen
47:11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land
of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Gen
47:12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his
father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Gen
47:13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine.
Gen
47:14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Gen
47:15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the
land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give
us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money
fails."
Gen
47:16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you
food for your livestock, if your money is gone."
Gen
47:17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them
bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the
herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange
for all their livestock for that year.
Gen
47:18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year,
and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is
all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing
left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Gen
47:19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy
us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to
Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the
land won't be desolate."
Gen
47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was severe on
them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
Gen
47:21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of
the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
Gen
47:22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests
had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave
them. That is why they didn't sell their land.
Gen
47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought
you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you,
and you shall sow the land.
Gen
47:24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to
Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for
your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little
ones."
Gen
47:25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor
in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
Gen
47:26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this
day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests
alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
Gen
47:27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and
they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and
multiplied exceedingly.
Gen
47:28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days
of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
Gen
47:29 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son
Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your
sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly
with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
Gen
47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I
will do as you have said."
Gen
47:31 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel
bowed himself on the bed's head.
Feb.
14, 15
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!' "
Matthew
24
Mat
24:1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His
disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
Mat
24:2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't
you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone
on another, that will not be thrown down."
Mat
24:3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him
privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is
the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
Mat
24:4 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you
astray.
Mat
24:5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and
will lead many astray.
Mat
24:6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't
troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
Mat
24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in
various places.
Mat
24:8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Mat
24:9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you.
You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
Mat
24:10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and
will hate one another.
Mat
24:11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
Mat
24:12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will
grow cold.
Mat
24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Mat
24:14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole
world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Mat
24:15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation,
which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy
place (let the reader understand),
Mat
24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Mat
24:17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things
that are in his house.
Mat
24:18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his
clothes.
Mat
24:19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in
those days!
Mat
24:20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a
Sabbath,
Mat
24:21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been
from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Mat
24:22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been
saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be
shortened.
Mat
24:23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,'
or, 'There,' don't believe it.
Mat
24:24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and
they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if
possible, even the chosen ones.
Mat
24:25 "Behold, I have told you beforehand.
Mat
24:26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,'
don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe
it.
Mat
24:27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even
to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mat
24:28 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures
gather together.
Mat
24:29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun
will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will
fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Mat
24:30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky.
Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the
Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great
glory.
Mat
24:31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds,
from one end of the sky to the other.
Mat
24:32 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its
branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know
that the summer is near.
Mat
24:33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it
is near, even at the doors.
Mat
24:34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away,
until all these things are accomplished.
Mat
24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass
away.
Mat
24:36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of
heaven, but my Father only.
Mat
24:37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the
Son of Man.
Mat
24:38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noah entered into the ship,
Mat
24:39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all
away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mat
24:40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one
will be left;
Mat
24:41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will
be left.
Mat
24:42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord
comes.
Mat
24:43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in
what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Mat
24:44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect,
the Son of Man will come.
Mat
24:45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord
has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
Mat
24:46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he
comes.
Mat
24:47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that
he has.
Mat
24:48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is
delaying his coming,'
Mat
24:49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with
the drunkards,
Mat
24:50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't
expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
Mat
24:51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the
hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
