Bible Reading March 2 & 3
World English Bible
Mar.
2
Exodus
12
Exo
12:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exo
12:2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It
shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exo
12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth
day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
Exo
12:4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his
neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of
the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your
count for the lamb.
Exo
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You
shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exo
12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same
month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
kill it at evening.
Exo
12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two
doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat
it.
Exo
12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and
unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
Exo
12:9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted
with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
Exo
12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that
which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
Exo
12:11 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it
in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
Exo
12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and
will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and
animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am
Yahweh.
Exo
12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you
are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall
no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo
12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it
a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a
feast by an ordinance forever.
Exo
12:15 " 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the
first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever
eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that
soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo
12:16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and
in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be
done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be
done by you.
Exo
12:17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this
same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by
an ordinance forever.
Exo
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day
of the month at evening.
Exo
12:19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for
whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from
the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is
born in the land.
Exo
12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you
shall eat unleavened bread.' "
Exo
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to
them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and
kill the Passover.
Exo
12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that
is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the
blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door
of his house until the morning.
Exo
12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when
he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh
will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in
to your houses to strike you.
Exo
12:24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to
your sons forever.
Exo
12:25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh
will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this
service.
Exo
12:26 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean
by this service?'
Exo
12:27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover,
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when
he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.' " The people
bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exo
12:28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Exo
12:29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his
throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and
all the firstborn of livestock.
Exo
12:30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and
all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was
not a house where there was not one dead.
Exo
12:31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise
up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of
Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
Exo
12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be
gone; and bless me also!"
Exo
12:33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of
the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
Exo
12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
Exo
12:35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and
they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
clothing.
Exo
12:36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so
that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the
Egyptians.
Exo
12:37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
Exo
12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds,
and even very much livestock.
Exo
12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust
out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for
themselves any food.
Exo
12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was
four hundred thirty years.
Exo
12:41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the
same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the
land of Egypt.
Exo
12:42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them
out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much
observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
Exo
12:43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of
the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
Exo
12:44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have
circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
Exo
12:45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
Exo
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth
anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you
break a bone of it.
Exo
12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exo
12:48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will
keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is
born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Exo
12:49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."
Exo
12:50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they did.
Exo
12:51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus
13
Exo
13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
13:2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the
womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is
mine."
Exo
13:3 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall
be eaten.
Exo
13:4 This day you go forth in the month Abib.
Exo
13:5 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Exo
13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
Exo
13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and
no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be
yeast seen with you, in all your borders.
Exo
13:8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of
that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'
Exo
13:9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial
between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for
with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
Exo
13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from
year to year.
Exo
13:11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land
of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall
give it you,
Exo
13:12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb,
and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The
males shall be Yahweh's.
Exo
13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and
if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you
shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
Exo
13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying,
'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh
brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Exo
13:15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice
to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn
of my sons I redeem.'
Exo
13:16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between
your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of
Egypt."
Exo
13:17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God
didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although
that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change
their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
Exo
13:18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by
the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land
of Egypt.
Exo
13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the
children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you,
and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."
Exo
13:20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham,
in the edge of the wilderness.
Exo
13:21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead
them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light, that they might go by day and by night:
Exo
13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night,
didn't depart from before the people.
Mar.
2
Mark 3
Mar 3:1
He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who
had his hand withered.
Mar 3:2
They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that
they might accuse him.
Mar 3:3
He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
Mar 3:4
He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good,
or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were
silent.
Mar 3:5
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the
hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your
hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy
as the other.
Mar 3:6
The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians
against him, how they might destroy him.
Mar 3:7
Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude
followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
Mar 3:8
from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from
around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things
he did, came to him.
Mar 3:9
He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him
because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
Mar
3:10 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed
on him that they might touch him.
Mar
3:11 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before
him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"
Mar
3:12 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
Mar
3:13 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom
he wanted, and they went to him.
Mar
3:14 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he
might send them out to preach,
Mar
3:15 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out
demons:
Mar
3:16 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;
Mar
3:17 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he
surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;
Mar
3:18 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of
Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
Mar
3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a
house.
Mar
3:20 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so
much as eat bread.
Mar
3:21 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they
said, "He is insane."
Mar
3:22 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has
Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out
the demons."
Mar
3:23 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can
Satan cast out Satan?
Mar
3:24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot
stand.
Mar
3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mar
3:26 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't
stand, but has an end.
Mar
3:27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to
plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will
plunder his house.
Mar
3:28 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man
will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may
blaspheme;
Mar
3:29 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has
forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
Mar
3:30 -because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Mar
3:31 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they
sent to him, calling him.
Mar
3:32 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold,
your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for
you."
Mar
3:33 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
Mar
3:34 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold,
my mother and my brothers!
Mar
3:35 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and
my sister, and mother."
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?"
