Bible Reading for February 5 - 7
World English Bible
Feb.
5
Genesis
36
Gen
36:1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is,
Edom).
Gen
36:2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the
daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Gen
36:3 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Gen
36:4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
Gen
36:5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of
Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Gen
36:6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the
members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and
all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and
went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Gen
36:7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together,
and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their
livestock.
Gen
36:8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
Gen
36:9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of
the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
Gen
36:10 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah,
the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
Gen
36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
Kenaz.
Gen
36:12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to
Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
Gen
36:13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and
Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
Gen
36:14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and
Korah.
Gen
36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz
the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief
Kenaz,
Gen
36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs
who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
Gen
36:17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief
Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of
Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's
wife.
Gen
36:18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush,
chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah
the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Gen
36:19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are
their chiefs.
Gen
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the
land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Gen
36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the
Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Gen
36:22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was
Timna.
Gen
36:23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal,
Shepho, and Onam.
Gen
36:24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah
who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of
Zibeon his father.
Gen
36:25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the
daughter of Anah.
Gen
36:26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and
Cheran.
Gen
36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
Gen
36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
Gen
36:29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan,
chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
Gen
36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the
chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land
of Seir.
Gen
36:31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before
any king reigned over the children of Israel.
Gen
36:32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city
was Dinhabah.
Gen
36:33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in
his place.
Gen
36:34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in
his place.
Gen
36:35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was
Avith.
Gen
36:36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
Gen
36:37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in
his place.
Gen
36:38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his
place.
Gen
36:39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel,
the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Gen
36:40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau,
according to their families, after their places, and by their names:
chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
Gen
36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
Gen
36:42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
Gen
36:43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom,
according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This
is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Feb.
6
Genesis
37
Gen
37:1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of
Canaan.
Gen
37:2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was
a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph
brought an evil report of them to their father.
Gen
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
Gen
37:4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his
brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
Gen
37:5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and
they hated him all the more.
Gen
37:6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have
dreamed:
Gen
37:7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold,
my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came
around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
Gen
37:8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us?
Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all
the more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen
37:9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and
said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the
sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
Gen
37:10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father
rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have
dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves down to you to the earth?"
Gen
37:11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in
mind.
Gen
37:12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Gen
37:13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the
flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to
him, "Here I am."
Gen
37:14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your
brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So
he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen
37:15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the
field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
Gen
37:16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please,
where they are feeding the flock."
Gen
37:17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say,
'Let us go to Dothan.' " Joseph went after his brothers, and
found them in Dothan.
Gen
37:18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they
conspired against him to kill him.
Gen
37:19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
Gen
37:20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one
of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We
will see what will become of his dreams."
Gen
37:21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and
said, "Let's not take his life."
Gen
37:22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he
might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Gen
37:23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they
stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
Gen
37:24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was
empty. There was no water in it.
Gen
37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and
looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with
their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it
down to Egypt.
Gen
37:26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill
our brother and conceal his blood?
Gen
37:27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our
hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers
listened to him.
Gen
37:28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and
lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
Gen
37:29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the
pit; and he tore his clothes.
Gen
37:30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no
more; and I, where will I go?"
Gen
37:31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped
the coat in the blood.
Gen
37:32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to
their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now,
whether it is your son's coat or not."
Gen
37:33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil
animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
Gen
37:34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and
mourned for his son many days.
Gen
37:35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but
he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to
Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
Gen
37:36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Feb.
7
Genesis
38
Gen
38:1 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his
brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Gen
38:2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name
was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Gen
38:3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
Gen
38:4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
Gen
38:5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at
Chezib, when she bore him.
Gen
38:6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was
Tamar.
Gen
38:7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh.
Yahweh killed him.
Gen
38:8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and
perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to
your brother."
Gen
38:9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when
he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground,
lest he should give seed to his brother.
Gen
38:10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he
killed him also.
Gen
38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a
widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;"
for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar
went and lived in her father's house.
Gen
38:12 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died.
Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he
and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Gen
38:13 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is
going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
Gen
38:14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered
herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of
Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was
grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
Gen
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for
she had covered her face.
Gen
38:16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let
me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his
daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may
come in to me?"
Gen
38:17 He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the
flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you
send it?"
Gen
38:18 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said,
"Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your
hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she
conceived by him.
Gen
38:19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and
put on the garments of her widowhood.
Gen
38:20 Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the
Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he
didn't find her.
Gen
38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the
prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There
has been no prostitute here."
Gen
38:22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and
also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'
"
Gen
38:23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold,
I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
Gen
38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah,
saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute;
and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah
said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
Gen
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law,
saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She
also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the
cords, and the staff."
Gen
38:26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous
than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew
her again no more.
Gen
38:27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins
were in her womb.
Gen
38:28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took
and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out
first."
Gen
38:29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his
brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for
yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
Gen
38:30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on
his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
Feb.
5
Matthew
18
Mat
18:1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who
then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
Mat
18:2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the
midst of them,
Mat
18:3 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and
become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom
of Heaven.
Mat
18:4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the
same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat
18:5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
Mat
18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me
to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should
be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of
the sea.
Mat
18:7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For
it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through
whom the occasion comes!
Mat
18:8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off,
and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed
or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into
the eternal fire.
Mat
18:9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it
from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye,
rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Mat
18:10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I
tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father
who is in heaven.
Mat
18:11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
Mat
18:12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and
one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the
mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
Mat
18:13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it
more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
Mat
18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven
that one of these little ones should perish.
Mat
18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault
between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back
your brother.
Mat
18:16 But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that
at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Mat
18:17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If
he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile
or a tax collector.
Mat
18:18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth
will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on
earth will have been released in heaven.
Mat
18:19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on
earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for
them by my Father who is in heaven.
Mat
18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
I am in the midst of them."
Mat
18:21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall
my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
Mat
18:22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times,
but, until seventy times seven.
Mat
18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who
wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
Mat
18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who
owed him ten thousand talents.
Mat
18:25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be
sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment
to be made.
Mat
18:26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him,
saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
Mat
18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion,
released him, and forgave him the debt.
Mat
18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow
servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and
took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
Mat
18:29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged
him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
Mat
18:30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he
should pay back that which was due.
Mat
18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were
exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
Mat
18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked
servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
Mat
18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even
as I had mercy on you?'
Mat
18:34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until
he should pay all that was due to him.
Mat
18:35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each
forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
Feb. 6,
7
Matthew
19
Mat
19:1 It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed
from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Mat
19:2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
Mat
19:3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it
lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
Mat
19:4 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from
the beginning made them male and female,
Mat
19:5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and
mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one
flesh?'
Mat
19:6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God
has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
Mat
19:7 They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her
a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
Mat
19:8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your
hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it
has not been so.
Mat
19:9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual
immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries
her when she is divorced commits adultery."
Mat
19:10 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the
man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
Mat
19:11 But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this
saying, but those to whom it is given.
Mat
19:12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their
mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men;
and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of
Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."
Mat
19:13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay
his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
Mat
19:14 But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't
forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones
like these."
Mat
19:15 He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
Mat
19:16 Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what
good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
Mat
19:17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good
but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the
commandments."
Mat
19:18 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "
'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall
not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'
Mat
19:19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.' "
Mat
19:20 The young man said to him, "All these things I have
observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"
Mat
19:21 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell
what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow me."
Mat
19:22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for
he was one who had great possessions.
Mat
19:23 Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to
you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with
difficulty.
Mat
19:24 Again I tell you, 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."
Mat
19:25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished,
saying, "Who then can be saved?"
Mat
19:26 Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is
impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Mat
19:27 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything,
and followed you. What then will we have?"
Mat
19:28 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you
who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will
sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat
19:29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's
sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Mat
19:30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.
