Bible Reading for March 6 - 8
World English Bible
Mar.
6
Exodus
16
Exo
16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of
the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exo
16:2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Exo
16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we
had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us
out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
Exo
16:4 Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's
portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my
law, or not.
Exo
16:5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare
that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily."
Exo
16:6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At
evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the
land of Egypt;
Exo
16:7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh;
because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you
murmur against us?"
Exo
16:8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the
evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh
hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we?
Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
Exo
16:9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the
children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your
murmurings.' "
Exo
16:10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and
behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
Exo
16:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the
morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh your God.' "
Exo
16:13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
Exo
16:14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the
wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
Exo
16:15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
"What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said
to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."
Exo
16:16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of
it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the
number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who
are in his tent."
Exo
16:17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some
less.
Exo
16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had
nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered
every man according to his eating.
Exo
16:19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the
morning."
Exo
16:20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them
left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and
Moses was angry with them.
Exo
16:21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his
eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
Exo
16:22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation
came and told Moses.
Exo
16:23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken,
'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which
you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that
remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.' "
Exo
16:24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it
didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
Exo
16:25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to
Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
Exo
16:26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
Exo
16:27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went
out to gather, and they found none.
Exo
16:28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my
commandments and my laws?
Exo
16:29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he
gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in
his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
Exo
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exo
16:31 The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like
coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exo
16:32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your
generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.' "
Exo
16:33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of
manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your
generations."
Exo
16:34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept.
Exo
16:35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they
came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the
borders of the land of Canaan.
Exo
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Exodus
17
Exo
17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from
the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's
commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the
people to drink.
Exo
17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give
us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel
with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
Exo
17:3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up
out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with
thirst?"
Exo
17:4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these
people? They are almost ready to stone me."
Exo
17:5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take
the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with
which you struck the Nile, and go.
Exo
17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You
shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people
may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exo
17:7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because
the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh,
saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
Exo
17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exo
17:9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out,
fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with
God's rod in my hand."
Exo
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek;
and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exo
17:11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Exo
17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one
on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were
steady until sunset.
Exo
17:13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the
sword.
Exo
17:14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a
book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot
out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
Exo
17:15 Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
Exo
17:16 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with
Amalek from generation to generation.' "
Exodus
18
Exo
18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how
that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exo
18:2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her away,
Exo
18:3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses
said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".
Exo
18:4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My
father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."
Exo
18:5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain
of God.
Exo
18:6 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to
you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
Exo
18:7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed
him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the
tent.
Exo
18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships
that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
Exo
18:9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to
Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the
Egyptians.
Exo
18:10 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who
has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exo
18:11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the
thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
Exo
18:12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to
eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Exo
18:13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the
evening.
Exo
18:14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people,
he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do
you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to
evening?"
Exo
18:15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come
to me to inquire of God.
Exo
18:16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between
a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and
his laws."
Exo
18:17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do
is not good.
Exo
18:18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is
with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to
perform it yourself alone.
Exo
18:19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be
with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes
to God.
Exo
18:20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show
them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exo
18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such
over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exo
18:22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every
great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they
shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall
share the load with you.
Exo
18:23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you
will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their
place in peace."
Exo
18:24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said.
Exo
18:25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads
over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exo
18:26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard
causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exo
18:27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into
his own land.
Mar. 6
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.
Mark 6
Mar 6:1
He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his
disciples followed him.
Mar 6:2
When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and
many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man
get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given
to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
Mar 6:3
Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James,
Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They
were offended at him.
Mar 6:4
Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in
his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
Mar 6:5
He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a
few sick people, and healed them.
Mar 6:6
He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages
teaching.
Mar 6:7
He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by
two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
Mar 6:8
He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey,
except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
Mar 6:9
but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
Mar
6:10 He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay
there until you depart from there.
Mar
6:11 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from
there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony
against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
Mar
6:12 They went out and preached that people should repent.
Mar
6:13 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were
sick, and healed them.
Mar
6:14 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he
said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore
these powers are at work in him."
Mar
6:15 But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He
is a prophet, or like one of the prophets."
Mar
6:16 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I
beheaded. He has risen from the dead."
Mar
6:17 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him
in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he
had married her.
Mar
6:18 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have
your brother's wife."
Mar
6:19 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but
she couldn't,
Mar
6:20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy
man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he
heard him gladly.
Mar
6:21 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a
supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of
Galilee.
Mar
6:22 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she
pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young
lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."
Mar
6:23 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will
give you, up to half of my kingdom."
Mar
6:24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"
She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
Mar
6:25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I
want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a
platter."
Mar
6:26 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths,
and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
Mar
6:27 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and
commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the
prison,
Mar
6:28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young
lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
Mar
6:29 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his
corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
Mar
6:30 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they
told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had
taught.
Mar
6:31 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place,
and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they
had no leisure so much as to eat.
Mar
6:32 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
Mar
6:33 They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on
foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together
to him.
Mar
6:34 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on
them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began
to teach them many things.
Mar
6:35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and
said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
Mar
6:36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country
and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to
eat."
Mar
6:37 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat."
They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth
of bread, and give them something to eat?"
Mar
6:38 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see."
When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
Mar
6:39 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on
the green grass.
Mar
6:40 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
Mar
6:41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to
heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples
to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
Mar
6:42 They all ate, and were filled.
Mar
6:43 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of
the fish.
Mar
6:44 Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
Mar
6:45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go
ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the
multitude away.
Mar
6:46 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to
pray.
Mar
6:47 When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea,
and he was alone on the land.
Mar
6:48 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to
them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on
the sea, and he would have passed by them,
Mar
6:49 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that
it was a ghost, and cried out;
Mar
6:50 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately
spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be
afraid."
Mar
6:51 He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they
were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;
Mar
6:52 for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts
were hardened.
Mar
6:53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret,
and moored to the shore.
Mar
6:54 When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people
recognized him,
Mar
6:55 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who
were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.
Mar
6:56 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the
country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that
they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as
touched him were made well.
