Bible Reading for January 29 - 31
World English Bible
Jan.
29
Genesis
29
Gen
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the
children of the east.
Gen
29:2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three
flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered
the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
Gen
29:3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on
the well's mouth in its place.
Gen
29:4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?"
They said, "We are from Haran."
Gen
29:5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?"
They said, "We know him."
Gen
29:6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said,
"It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the
sheep."
Gen
29:7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not
time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and
feed them."
Gen
29:8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered
together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we
water the sheep."
Gen
29:9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep, for she kept them.
Gen
29:10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his
mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that
Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Gen
29:11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Gen
29:12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that
he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
Gen
29:13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's
son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and
brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Gen
29:14 Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He
lived with him for a month.
Gen
29:15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should
you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages
be?"
Gen
29:16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and
the name of the younger was Rachel.
Gen
29:17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and
attractive.
Gen
29:18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven
years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Gen
29:19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than
that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
Gen
29:20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a
few days, for the love he had for her.
Gen
29:21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
Gen
29:22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
feast.
Gen
29:23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter,
and brought her to him. He went in to her.
Gen
29:24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a
handmaid.
Gen
29:25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said
to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with
you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
Gen
29:26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the
younger before the firstborn.
Gen
29:27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other
also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other
years."
Gen
29:28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his
daughter as wife.
Gen
29:29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be
her handmaid.
Gen
29:30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than
Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Gen
29:31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but
Rachel was barren.
Gen
29:32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For
she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now
my husband will love me."
Gen
29:33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because
Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son
also." She named him Simeon.
Gen
29:34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time
will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three
sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
Gen
29:35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time
will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she
stopped bearing.
Jan.
30
Genesis
30
Gen
30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied
her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will
die."
Gen
30:2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am
I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Gen
30:3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she
may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
Gen
30:4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to
her.
Gen
30:5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Gen
30:6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my
voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name
Dan.
Gen
30:7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a
second son.
Gen
30:8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
Gen
30:9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah,
her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen
30:10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.
Gen
30:11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
Gen
30:12 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.
Gen
30:13 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
happy." She named him Asher.
Gen
30:14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes
in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said
to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Gen
30:15 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have
taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?"
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your
son's mandrakes."
Gen
30:16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to
meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely
hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
Gen
30:17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a
fifth son.
Gen
30:18 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my
handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
Gen
30:19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Gen
30:20 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my
husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons."
She named him Zebulun.
Gen
30:21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
Gen
30:22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her
womb.
Gen
30:23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away
my reproach."
Gen
30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son
to me."
Gen
30:25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to
Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my
country.
Gen
30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you,
and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
Gen
30:27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your
eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for
your sake."
Gen
30:28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
Gen
30:29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how
your livestock have fared with me.
Gen
30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has
increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned.
Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
Gen
30:31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You
shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will
again feed your flock and keep it.
Gen
30:32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there
every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
Gen
30:33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you
come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not
speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that
might be with me, will be counted stolen."
Gen
30:34 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your
word."
Gen
30:35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and
spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted,
every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the
sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Gen
30:36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Gen
30:37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane
tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which
was in the rods.
Gen
30:38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the
gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They
conceived when they came to drink.
Gen
30:39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen
30:40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he
put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
Gen
30:41 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters,
that they might conceive among the rods;
Gen
30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Gen
30:43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female
servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Jan.
31
Genesis
31
Gen
31:1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has
taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our
father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
Gen
31:2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
Gen
31:3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers,
and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Gen
31:4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his
flock,
Gen
31:5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's
face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father
has been with me.
Gen
31:6 You know that I have served your father with all of my
strength.
Gen
31:7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times,
but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
Gen
31:8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all
the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your
wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
Gen
31:9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them
to me.
Gen
31:10 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and
saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock
were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Gen
31:11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said,
'Here I am.'
Gen
31:12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male
goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled,
for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
Gen
31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you
vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to
the land of your birth.' "
Gen
31:14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion
or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Gen
31:15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us,
and has also quite devoured our money.
Gen
31:16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father,
that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to
you, do."
Gen
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the
camels,
Gen
31:18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions
which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in
Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Gen
31:19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the
teraphim that were her father's.
Gen
31:20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him
that he was running away.
Gen
31:21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the
River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Gen
31:22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Gen
31:23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Gen
31:24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and
said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to
Jacob either good or bad."
Gen
31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain
of Gilead.
Gen
31:26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have
deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the
sword?
Gen
31:27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me,
that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with
tambourine and with harp;
Gen
31:28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have
you done foolishly.
Gen
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your
father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that
you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
Gen
31:30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your
father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
Gen
31:31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said,
'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
Gen
31:32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our
relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For
Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
Gen
31:33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the
tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out
of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Gen
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's
saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't
find them.
Gen
31:35 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that
I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me."
He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
Gen
31:36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban,
"What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly
pursued after me?
Gen
31:37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you
found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives
and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Gen
31:38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your
female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams
of your flocks.
Gen
31:39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore
its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen
by night.
Gen
31:40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and
the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Gen
31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you
fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock,
and you have changed my wages ten times.
Gen
31:42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away
empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and
rebuked you last night."
Gen
31:43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters,
the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that
you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or
to their children whom they have borne?
Gen
31:44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for
a witness between me and you."
Gen
31:45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Gen
31:46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They
took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Gen
31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Gen
31:48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this
day." Therefore it was named Galeed
Gen
31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and
you, when we are absent one from another.
Gen
31:50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my
daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and
you."
Gen
31:51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar,
which I have set between me and you.
Gen
31:52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that
I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass
over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Gen
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his
father, Isaac.
Gen
31:54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his
relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the
mountain.
Gen
31:55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and
his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his
place.
Jan.
29, 30
Matthew
15
Mat
15:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem,
saying,
Mat
15:2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the
elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
Mat
15:3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment
of God because of your tradition?
Mat
15:4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and,
'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Mat
15:5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother,
"Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift
devoted to God,"
Mat
15:6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the
commandment of God void because of your tradition.
Mat
15:7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Mat
15:8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me
with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Mat
15:9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made
by men.' "
Mat
15:10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and
understand.
Mat
15:11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but
that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
Mat
15:12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know
that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
Mat
15:13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father
didn't plant will be uprooted.
Mat
15:14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the
blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
Mat
15:15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
Mat
15:16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?
Mat
15:17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes
into the belly, and then out of the body?
Mat
15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the
heart, and they defile the man.
Mat
15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Mat
15:20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with
unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
Mat
15:21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of
Tyre and Sidon.
Mat
15:22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and
cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My
daughter is severely demonized!"
Mat
15:23 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged
him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
Mat
15:24 But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost
sheep of the house of Israel."
Mat
15:25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
Mat
15:26 But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the
children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Mat
15:27 But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the
crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
Mat
15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be
it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed
from that hour.
Mat
15:29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and
he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
Mat
15:30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame,
blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his
feet. He healed them,
Mat
15:31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute
speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing-and they
glorified the God of Israel.
Mat
15:32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion
on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and
have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they
might faint on the way."
Mat
15:33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many
loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
Mat
15:34 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?"
They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
Mat
15:35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
Mat
15:36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and
broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the
multitudes.
Mat
15:37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full
of the broken pieces that were left over.
Mat
15:38 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and
children.
Mat
15:39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came
into the borders of Magdala.
Jan. 31
Matthew
16
Mat
16:1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to
show them a sign from heaven.
Mat
16:2 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It
will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'
Mat
16:3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is
red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the
appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
Mat
16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there
will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah."
He left them, and departed.
Mat
16:5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take
bread.
Mat
16:6 Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of
the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mat
16:7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no
bread."
Mat
16:8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among
yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
Mat
16:9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for
the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Mat
16:10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many
baskets you took up?
Mat
16:11 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you
concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
Sadducees."
Mat
16:12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the
yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mat
16:13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of
Man, am?"
Mat
16:14 They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and
others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
Mat
16:15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Mat
16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the
living God."
Mat
16:17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah,
for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who
is in heaven.
Mat
16:18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will
build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against
it.
Mat
16:19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and
whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and
whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."
Mat
16:20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one
that he is Jesus the Christ.
Mat
16:21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must
go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief
priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Mat
16:22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far
be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you."
Mat
16:23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!
You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on
the things of God, but on the things of men."
Mat
16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
follow me.
Mat
16:25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever
will lose his life for my sake will find it.
Mat
16:26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world,
and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his
life?
Mat
16:27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with
his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his
deeds.
Mat
16:28 Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who
will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming
in his Kingdom."
