Bible Reading for March 13 - 15
World English Bible
Mar.
13
Exodus
23
Exo
23:1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand
with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Exo
23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you
testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
Exo
23:3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
Exo
23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray,
you shall surely bring it back to him again.
Exo
23:5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under
his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
Exo
23:6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their
lawsuits.
Exo
23:7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent
and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exo
23:8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who
have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exo
23:9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of
an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exo
23:10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather
in its increase,
Exo
23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow,
that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal
of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your
vineyard and with your olive grove.
Exo
23:12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day
you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the
son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
Exo
23:13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and
don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of
your mouth.
Exo
23:14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
Exo
23:15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days
you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time
appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and
no one shall appear before me empty.
Exo
23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors,
which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of
the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
Exo
23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the
Lord Yahweh.
Exo
23:18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night
until the morning.
Exo
23:19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring
into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in
its mother's milk.
Exo
23:20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the
way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exo
23:21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke
him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Exo
23:22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I
speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to
your adversaries.
Exo
23:23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the
Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
Exo
23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor
follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and
demolish their pillars.
Exo
23:25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread
and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
Exo
23:26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill
the number of your days.
Exo
23:27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the
people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their
backs to you.
Exo
23:28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
Exo
23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest
the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply
against you.
Exo
23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until
you have increased and inherit the land.
Exo
23:31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver
the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them
out before you.
Exo
23:32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exo
23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin
against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to
you."
Exodus
24
Exo
24:1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
from a distance.
Exo
24:2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come
near, neither shall the people go up with him."
Exo
24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all
the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said,
"All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
Exo
24:4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the
morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars
for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exo
24:5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
Exo
24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of
the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exo
24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of
the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we
do, and be obedient."
Exo
24:8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said,
"Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made
with you concerning all these words."
Exo
24:9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel went up.
Exo
24:10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved
work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
Exo
24:11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of
Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
Exo
24:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and
stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and
the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
Exo
24:13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto
God's Mountain.
Exo
24:14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come
again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved
in a dispute can go to them."
Exo
24:15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the
mountain.
Exo
24:16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud
covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the
midst of the cloud.
Exo
24:17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire
on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exo
24:18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the
mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus
25
Exo
25:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
25:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an
offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you
shall take my offering.
Exo
25:3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold,
silver, brass,
Exo
25:4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
Exo
25:5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
Exo
25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the
sweet incense,
Exo
25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the
breastplate.
Exo
25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
Exo
25:9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you
shall make it.
Exo
25:10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall
be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit
and a half its height.
Exo
25:11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it
inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
Exo
25:12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its
four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on
the other side of it.
Exo
25:13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold.
Exo
25:14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark
to carry the ark.
Exo
25:15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be
taken from it.
Exo
25:16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the
ark.
Exo
25:17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half
cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
Exo
25:18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make
them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exo
25:19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other
end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with
the mercy seat.
Exo
25:20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the
mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The
faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
Exo
25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark
you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
Exo
25:22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the
mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the
testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
Exo
25:23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall
be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its
height.
Exo
25:24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding
around it.
Exo
25:25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall
make a golden molding on its rim around it.
Exo
25:26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in
the four corners that are on its four feet.
Exo
25:27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles
to carry the table.
Exo
25:28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold, that the table may be carried with them.
Exo
25:29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its
bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
Exo
25:30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me
always.
Exo
25:31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered
work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups,
its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
Exo
25:32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three
branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of
the lampstand out of its other side;
Exo
25:33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and
a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other
branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the
lampstand;
Exo
25:34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its
buds and its flowers;
Exo
25:35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud
under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches
of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the
lampstand.
Exo
25:36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it,
all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
Exo
25:37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps
to give light to the space in front of it.
Exo
25:38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
Exo
25:39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these
accessories.
Exo
25:40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been
shown to you on the mountain.
Mar.
13, 14
Mark 9
Mar 9:1
He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some
standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the
Kingdom of God come with power."
Mar 9:2
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and
brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he
was changed into another form in front of them.
Mar 9:3
His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such
as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
Mar 9:4
Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
Mar 9:5
Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.
Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah."
Mar 9:6
For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
Mar 9:7
A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud,
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Mar 9:8
Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except
Jesus only.
Mar 9:9
As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that
they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the
Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Mar
9:10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the
"rising from the dead" meant.
Mar
9:11 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that
Elijah must come first?"
Mar
9:12 He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores
all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should
suffer many things and be despised?
Mar
9:13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to
him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
Mar
9:14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them,
and scribes questioning them.
Mar
9:15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly
amazed, and running to him greeted him.
Mar
9:16 He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
Mar
9:17 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you
my son, who has a mute spirit;
Mar
9:18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at
the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your
disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
Mar
9:19 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I
be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
Mar
9:20 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the
spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and
foaming at the mouth.
Mar
9:21 He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has
come to him?" He said, "From childhood.
Mar
9:22 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to
destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and
help us."
Mar
9:23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are
possible to him who believes."
Mar
9:24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I
believe. Help my unbelief!"
Mar
9:25 When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he
rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf
spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"
Mar
9:26 Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him.
The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He
is dead."
Mar
9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he
arose.
Mar
9:28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him
privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
Mar
9:29 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing,
except by prayer and fasting."
Mar
9:30 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't
want anyone to know it.
Mar
9:31 For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The
Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will
kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise
again."
Mar
9:32 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask
him.
Mar
9:33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked
them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"
Mar
9:34 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on
the way about who was the greatest.
Mar
9:35 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If
any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of
all."
Mar
9:36 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them.
Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
Mar
9:37 "Whoever receives one such little child in my name,
receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who
sent me."
Mar
9:38 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't
follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him,
because he doesn't follow us."
Mar
9:39 But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who
will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil
of me.
Mar
9:40 For whoever is not against us is on our side.
Mar
9:41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name,
because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no
way lose his reward.
Mar
9:42 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me
to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea
with a millstone hung around his neck.
Mar
9:43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better
for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands
to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
Mar
9:44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar
9:45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better
for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to
be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched-
Mar
9:46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar
9:47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better
for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than
having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
Mar
9:48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Mar
9:49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will
be seasoned with salt.
Mar
9:50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what
will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one
another."
Mark 10
Mar
10:1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and
beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he
usually did, he was again teaching them.
Mar
10:2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it
lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
Mar
10:3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
Mar
10:4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be
written, and to divorce her."
Mar
10:5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he
wrote you this commandment.
Mar
10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and
female.
Mar
10:7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will
join to his wife,
Mar
10:8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer
two, but one flesh.
Mar
10:9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Mar
10:10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same
matter.
Mar
10:11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries
another, commits adultery against her.
Mar
10:12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another,
she commits adultery."
Mar
10:13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should
touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
Mar
10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said
to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid
them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Mar
10:15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the
Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
Mar
10:16 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands
on them.
Mar
10:17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before
him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may
inherit eternal life?"
Mar
10:18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is
good except one-God.
Mar
10:19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit
adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not
defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.' "
Mar
10:20 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these
things from my youth."
Mar
10:21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One
thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and
you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the
cross."
Mar
10:22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
Mar
10:23 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How
difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom
of God!"
Mar
10:24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered
again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches
to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Mar
10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for
a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Mar
10:26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then
who can be saved?"
Mar
10:27 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible,
but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
Mar
10:28 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and
have followed you."
Mar
10:29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one
who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good
News,
Mar
10:30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time,
houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with
persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Mar
10:31 But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
Mar
10:32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was
going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed
were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the
things that were going to happen to him.
Mar
10:33 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man
will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will
condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
Mar
10:34 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On
the third day he will rise again."
Mar
10:35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying,
"Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
Mar
10:36 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Mar
10:37 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at
your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
Mar
10:38 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are
asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be
baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
Mar
10:39 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them,
"You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be
baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
Mar
10:40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to
give, but for whom it has been prepared."
Mar
10:41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards
James and John.
Mar
10:42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that
they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them,
and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mar
10:43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become
great among you shall be your servant.
Mar
10:44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be
bondservant of all.
Mar
10:45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve,
and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Mar
10:46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his
disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a
blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
Mar
10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry
out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
Mar
10:48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out
much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
Mar
10:49 Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called
the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling
you!"
Mar
10:50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Mar
10:51 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"
The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
Mar
10:52 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you
well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in
the way.
