Bible Reading for May 4 and 5
World English Bible
May
4
Deuteronomy
23, 24
Deu
23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to
the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of
Yahweh.
Deu
23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of
Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them
enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
Deu
23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the
way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against
you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
Deu
23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but
Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because
Yahweh your God loved you.
Deu
23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your
days forever.
Deu
23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you
shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his
land.
Deu
23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall
enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Deu
23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Deu
23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of
that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the
camp. He shall not come within the camp:
Deu
23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself
in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
Deu
23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
Deu
23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall
be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn
back and cover that which comes from you:
Deu
23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to
deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your
camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you.
Deu
23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
Deu
23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place
which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him
best: you shall not oppress him.
Deu
23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deu
23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of
a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both
these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of
money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on
interest:
Deu
23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother
you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess
it.
Deu
23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be
slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you;
and it would be sin in you.
Deu
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
Deu
23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering,
which you have promised with your mouth.
Deu
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any
in your vessel.
Deu
23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you
may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to
your neighbor's standing grain.
Deu
24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if
she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deu
24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
Deu
24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or
if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deu
24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deu
24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu
24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge;
for he takes a man's
life to pledge.
Deu
24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that
thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites
shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deu
24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt.
Deu
24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall
not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deu
24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you.
Deu
24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu
24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes
down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall
be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deu
24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your
land within your gates:
Deu
24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry
against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deu
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deu
24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due
to the foreigner, or
to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
Deu
24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do
this thing.
Deu
24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a
sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for
the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh
your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deu
24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow.
Deu
24:21 When you gather the grapes of
your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be
for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deu
24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
May
5
Deuteronomy
25, 26
Deu
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the
wicked;
Deu
25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deu
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your
brother should seem vile to you.
Deu
25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
grain.
Deu
25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as
wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Deu
25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in
the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out
of Israel.
Deu
25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in
Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
Deu
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Deu
25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man
who does not build up his brother's house.
Deu
25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has
his shoe untied.
Deu
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
Deu
25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
Deu
25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small.
Deu
25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and
a small.
Deu
25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a
perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
25:16 For all who do such things, even
all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth
out of Egypt;
Deu
25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all
who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he
didn't fear God.
Deu
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest
from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out
the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
Deu
26:1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
Deu
26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there.
Deu
26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and
tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
Deu
26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it
down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned
there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous.
Deu
26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on
us hard bondage:
Deu
26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression;
Deu
26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs,
and with wonders;
Deu
26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this
land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the
ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has
given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you.
Deu
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Deu
26:13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and
to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to
all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not
transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deu
26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away
of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened
to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you
have commanded me.
Deu
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:16 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
Deu
26:17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you
would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
Deu
26:18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all
his commandments;
Deu
26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people
to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
May 4,
5
Luke 19
Luk
19:1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.
Luk
19:2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector,
and he was rich.
Luk
19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the
crowd, because he was short.
Luk
19:4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see
him, for he was to pass that way.
Luk
19:5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and
said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must
stay at your house."
Luk
19:6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Luk
19:7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone
in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
Luk
19:8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half
of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything
of anyone, I restore four times as much."
Luk
19:9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this
house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Luk
19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was
lost."
Luk
19:11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of
God would be revealed immediately.
Luk
19:12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far
country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luk
19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,
and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
Luk
19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him,
saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
Luk
19:15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had
gained by conducting business.
Luk
19:16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made
ten more minas.'
Luk
19:17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because
you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority
over ten cities.'
Luk
19:18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five
minas.'
Luk
19:19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
Luk
19:20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
laid away in a handkerchief,
Luk
19:21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up
that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
Luk
19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up
that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
Luk
19:23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my
coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
Luk
19:24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him,
and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
Luk
19:25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
Luk
19:26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given;
but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken
away from him.
Luk
19:27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
over them here, and kill them before me.' "
Luk
19:28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to
Jerusalem.
Luk
19:29 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at
the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
Luk
19:30 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side,
in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man
ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
Luk
19:31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The
Lord needs it.' "
Luk
19:32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had
told them.
Luk
19:33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why
are you untying the colt?"
Luk
19:34 They said, "The Lord needs it."
Luk
19:35 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt,
and set Jesus on them.
Luk
19:36 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.
Luk
19:37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of
Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had
seen,
Luk
19:38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the
Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
Luk
19:39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
Luk
19:40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent,
the stones would cry out."
Luk
19:41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Luk
19:42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things
which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luk
19:43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up
a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luk
19:44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground.
They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't
know the time of your visitation."
Luk
19:45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in it,
Luk
19:46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of
prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
Luk
19:47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and
the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy
him.
Luk
19:48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung
on to every word that he said.
