Bible Reading for March 17 and 18
World English Bible
Mar.
17
Exodus
28, 29
Exo
28:1 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to
you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in
the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
Exo
28:2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory
and for beauty.
Exo
28:3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to
sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
Exo
28:4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate,
and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a
sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and
his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
Exo
28:5 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the
scarlet, and the fine linen.
Exo
28:6 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
Exo
28:7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it,
that it may be joined together.
Exo
28:8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him,
shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exo
28:9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names
of the children of Israel:
Exo
28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six
that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
Exo
28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of
a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of
the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in
settings of gold.
Exo
28:12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the
ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron
shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a
memorial.
Exo
28:13 You shall make settings of gold,
Exo
28:14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of
braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
Exo
28:15 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of
the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it;
of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you
shall make it.
Exo
28:16 It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its
length of it, and a span its breadth.
Exo
28:17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a
row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
Exo
28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
Exo
28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exo
28:20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they
shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
Exo
28:21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a
signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve
tribes.
Exo
28:22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of
braided work of pure gold.
Exo
28:23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall
put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exo
28:24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings
at the ends of the breastplate.
Exo
28:25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on
the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in
its forepart.
Exo
28:26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on
the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the
side of the ephod inward.
Exo
28:27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the
two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close
by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
Exo
28:28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven
band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from
the ephod.
Exo
28:29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy
place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
Exo
28:30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the
Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before
Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel
on his heart before Yahweh continually.
Exo
28:31 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
Exo
28:32 It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have
a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a
coat of mail, that it not be torn.
Exo
28:33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple,
and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around
them:
Exo
28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.
Exo
28:35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard
when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes
out, that he not die.
Exo
28:36 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it,
like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
Exo
28:37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the
sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.
Exo
28:38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the
iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make
holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead,
that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
Exo
28:39 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and
you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the
work of the embroiderer.
Exo
28:40 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall
make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory
and for beauty.
Exo
28:41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with
him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them,
that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
Exo
28:42 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their
nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:
Exo
28:43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to
the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister
in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall
be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
Exo
29:1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them
holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull
and two rams without blemish,
Exo
29:2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine
wheat flour.
Exo
29:3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the
basket, with the bull and the two rams.
Exo
29:4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
Exo
29:5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the
robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him with
the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
Exo
29:6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy
crown on the turban.
Exo
29:7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head,
and anoint him.
Exo
29:8 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
Exo
29:9 You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind
headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual
statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exo
29:10 "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
Exo
29:11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent
of Meeting.
Exo
29:12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the
horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the
blood at the base of the altar.
Exo
29:13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover
of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn
them on the altar.
Exo
29:14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you
shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.
Exo
29:15 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
Exo
29:16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and
sprinkle it around on the altar.
Exo
29:17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards,
and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Exo
29:18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt
offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire
to Yahweh.
Exo
29:19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
Exo
29:20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and
put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the
right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on
the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the
altar.
Exo
29:21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on
his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be
made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him.
Exo
29:22 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the
fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys,
the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of
consecration),
Exo
29:23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer
out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
Exo
29:24 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons'
hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
Exo
29:25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the
altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it
is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Exo
29:26 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of
consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it
shall be your portion.
Exo
29:27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the
thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up,
of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of
that which is for his sons:
Exo
29:28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion
forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and
it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to
Yahweh.
Exo
29:29 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after
him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
Exo
29:30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them
on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy
place.
Exo
29:31 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its
flesh in a holy place.
Exo
29:32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the
bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Exo
29:33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to
consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it,
because they are holy.
Exo
29:34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread,
remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire:
it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exo
29:35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to
all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
Exo
29:36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for
atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement
for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exo
29:37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and
sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the
altar shall be holy.
Exo
29:38 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two
lambs a year old day by day continually.
Exo
29:39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other
lamb you shall offer at evening:
Exo
29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour
mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth
part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
Exo
29:41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it
according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its
drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.
Exo
29:42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I
will meet with you, to speak there to you.
Exo
29:43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place
shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exo
29:44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also
and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's
office.
Exo
29:45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their
God.
Exo
29:46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am
Yahweh their God.
Mar.
18
Exodus
30, 31
Exo
30:1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall
make it of acacia wood.
Exo
30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall
be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of
one piece with it.
Exo
30:3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around
it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
Exo
30:4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on
its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be
for places for poles with which to bear it.
Exo
30:5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold.
Exo
30:6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the
testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I
will meet with you.
Exo
30:7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning.
When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
Exo
30:8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a
perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Exo
30:9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering,
nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
Exo
30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with
the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall
make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to
Yahweh."
Exo
30:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel,
according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall
give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that
there be no plague among them when you number them.
Exo
30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who
are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the
shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
Exo
30:14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from
twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
Exo
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give
less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to
make atonement for your souls.
Exo
30:16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of
Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting;
that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh,
to make atonement for your souls."
Exo
30:17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of
brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting
and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
Exo
30:19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in
it.
Exo
30:20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with
water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to
minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Exo
30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not
die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to
his descendants throughout their generations."
Exo
30:22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred
shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and
fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
Exo
30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
and a hin of olive oil.
Exo
30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded
after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Exo
30:26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the
testimony,
Exo
30:27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its
accessories, the altar of incense,
Exo
30:28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the
basin with its base.
Exo
30:29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever
touches them shall be holy.
Exo
30:30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that
they may minister to me in the priest's office.
Exo
30:31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall
be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
Exo
30:32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make
any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be
holy to you.
Exo
30:33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a
stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.' "
Exo
30:34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum
resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense:
of each shall there be an equal weight;
Exo
30:35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of
the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
Exo
30:36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it
before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with
you. It shall be to you most holy.
Exo
30:37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition
you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for
Yahweh.
Exo
30:38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be
cut off from his people."
Exo
31:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
31:2 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exo
31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
Exo
31:4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
in brass,
Exo
31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exo
31:6 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are
wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
commanded you:
Exo
31:7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat
that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
Exo
31:8 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its
vessels, the altar of incense,
Exo
31:9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and
its base,
Exo
31:10 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the
priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office,
Exo
31:11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the
holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall
do."
Exo
31:12 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
31:13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most
certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and
you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies you.
Exo
31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you.
Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever
does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
Exo
31:15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a
Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the
Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
Exo
31:16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to
observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual
covenant.
Exo
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day
he rested, and was refreshed.' "
Exo
31:18 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount
Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with
God's finger.
Mar.
17, 18
Mark 11
Mar
11:1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at
the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
Mar
11:2 and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is
opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young
donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.
Mar
11:3 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord
needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
Mar
11:4 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door
outside in the open street, and they untied him.
Mar
11:5 Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you
doing, untying the young donkey?"
Mar
11:6 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
Mar
11:7 They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their
garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
Mar
11:8 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting
down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
Mar
11:9 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out,
"Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Mar
11:10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in
the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
Mar
11:11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked
around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany
with the twelve.
Mar
11:12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was
hungry.
Mar
11:13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if
perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Mar
11:14 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you
again!" and his disciples heard it.
Mar
11:15 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and
began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of
those who sold the doves.
Mar
11:16 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the
temple.
Mar
11:17 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house
will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have
made it a den of robbers!"
Mar
11:18 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how
they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the
multitude was astonished at his teaching.
Mar
11:19 When evening came, he went out of the city.
Mar
11:20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree
withered away from the roots.
Mar
11:21 Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig
tree which you cursed has withered away."
Mar
11:22 Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.
Mar
11:23 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain,
'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart,
but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever
he says.
Mar
11:24 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask
for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
Mar
11:25 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything
against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also
forgive you your transgressions.
Mar
11:26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven
forgive your transgressions."
Mar
11:27 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the
temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to
him,
Mar
11:28 and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you
do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
Mar
11:29 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer
me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mar
11:30 The baptism of John-was it from heaven, or from men? Answer
me."
Mar
11:31 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say,
'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Mar
11:32 If we should say, 'From men' "-they feared the people,
for all held John to really be a prophet.
Mar
11:33 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to
them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these
things."
