Bible Reading for April 2 - 4
World English Bible
Apr.
2
Leviticus
21, 22
Lev
21:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of
Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the
dead among his people;
Lev
21:2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother,
for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
Lev
21:3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no
husband; for her he may defile himself.
Lev
21:4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
people, to profane himself.
Lev
21:5 " 'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they
shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their
flesh.
Lev
21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of
their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the
bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
Lev
21:7 " 'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or
profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband:
for he is holy to his God.
Lev
21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of
your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am
holy.
Lev
21:9 " 'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by
playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned
with fire.
Lev
21:10 " 'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon
whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to
put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose,
nor tear his clothes;
Lev
21:11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
for his father, or for his mother;
Lev
21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God
is upon him. I am Yahweh.
Lev
21:13 " 'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev
21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or
a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own
people shall he take as a wife.
Lev
21:15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am
Yahweh who sanctifies him.' "
Lev
21:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
21:17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their
generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his
God.
Lev
21:18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw
near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any
deformity,
Lev
21:19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
Lev
21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his
eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
Lev
21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish,
shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since
has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Lev
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and
of the holy.
Lev
21:23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the
altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my
sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.' "
Lev
21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the
children of Israel.
Lev
22:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the
holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me,
and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:3 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your
generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel
make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall
be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:4 " 'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an
issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean.
Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
seed goes from him;
Lev
22:5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made
unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever
uncleanness he has;
Lev
22:6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the
evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his
body in water.
Lev
22:7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall
eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
Lev
22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not
eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:9 " 'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they
bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who
sanctifies them.
Lev
22:10 " 'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner
living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the
holy thing.
Lev
22:11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall
eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his
bread.
Lev
22:12 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall
not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
Lev
22:13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no
child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she
may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
Lev
22:14 " 'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he
shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy
thing to the priest.
Lev
22:15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children
of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
Lev
22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when
they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.' "
Lev
22:17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:18 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children
of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of
the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any
of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer
to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
Lev
22:19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without
blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Lev
22:20 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it
shall not be acceptable for you.
Lev
22:21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to
accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the
flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish
therein.
Lev
22:22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a
running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an
offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
Lev
22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in
his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow
it shall not be accepted.
Lev
22:24 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut,
you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your
land.
Lev
22:25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of
a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them.
There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.' "
Lev
22:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
22:27 "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it
shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and
thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made
by fire to Yahweh.
Lev
22:28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its
young both in one day.
Lev
22:29 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to
Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
Lev
22:30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it
until the morning. I am Yahweh.
Lev
22:31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I
am Yahweh.
Lev
22:32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy
among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
Lev
22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am
Yahweh."
Apr.
3
Leviticus
23, 24
Lev
23:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set
feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
even these are my set feasts.
Lev
23:3 " 'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is
a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner
of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
Lev
23:4 " 'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy
convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
Lev
23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the
evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
Lev
23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread.
Lev
23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall
do no regular work.
Lev
23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven
days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no
regular work.' "
Lev
23:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When
you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its
the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of
your harvest to the priest:
Lev
23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for
you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev
23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male
lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Lev
23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh
for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of
wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Lev
23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh
grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of
your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
Lev
23:15 " 'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath,
from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
Sabbaths shall be completed:
Lev
23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall
number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
Lev
23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread
for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine
flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
Lev
23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a
year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt
offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink
offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
Lev
23:19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male
lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Lev
23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be
holy to Yahweh for the priest.
Lev
23:21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a
holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a
statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lev
23:22 " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and
for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
23:23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh
month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you,
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev
23:25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh.' "
Lev
23:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:27 "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the
day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you
shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh.
Lev
23:28 You shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a
day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
Lev
23:29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day;
shall be cut off from his people.
Lev
23:30 Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same day,
that person I will destroy from among his people.
Lev
23:31 You shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev
23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall
deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from
evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
Lev
23:33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
23:34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the
fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven
days to Yahweh.
Lev
23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no
regular work.
Lev
23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall
offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly;
you shall do no regular work.
Lev
23:37 " 'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice,
and drink offerings, each on its own day;
Lev
23:38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and
besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which
you give to Yahweh.
Lev
23:39 " 'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you
have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of
Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on
the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Lev
23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
Lev
23:41 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it
is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it
in the seventh month.
Lev
23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born
in Israel shall dwell in booths,
Lev
23:43 that your generations may know that I made the children of
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
23:44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts
of Yahweh.
Lev
24:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
24:2 "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you
pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn
continually.
Lev
24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting,
shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh
continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations.
Lev
24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand
before Yahweh continually.
Lev
24:5 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it:
two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
Lev
24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold
table before Yahweh.
Lev
24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to
the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Lev
24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh
continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an
everlasting covenant.
Lev
24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a
holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh
made by fire by a perpetual statute."
Lev
24:10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian,
went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite
woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
Lev
24:11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and
cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was
Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Lev
24:12 They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be
declared to them.
Lev
24:13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
24:14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who
heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation
stone him.
Lev
24:15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever
curses his God shall bear his sin.
Lev
24:16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put
to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the
foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name,
shall be put to death.
Lev
24:17 " 'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to
death.
Lev
24:18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for
life.
Lev
24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be
done to him:
Lev
24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has
injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
Lev
24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a
man shall be put to death.
Lev
24:22 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as
the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.' "
Lev
24:23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth
him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The
children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Apr.
4
Leviticus
25 – 27
Lev
25:1 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
Lev
25:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you
come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a
Sabbath to Yahweh.
Lev
25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall
prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
Lev
25:4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest
for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or
prune your vineyard.
Lev
25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and
the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a
year of solemn rest for the land.
Lev
25:6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for
yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant,
and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
Lev
25:7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your
land, shall all its increase be for food.
Lev
25:8 " 'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven
times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven
Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
Lev
25:9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the
seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet
throughout all your land.
Lev
25:10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to
you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of
you shall return to his family.
Lev
25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall
not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the
undressed vines.
Lev
25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of
its increase out of the field.
Lev
25:13 " 'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to
his property.
Lev
25:14 " 'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from
your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
Lev
25:15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall
buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops
he shall sell to you.
Lev
25:16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its
price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish
its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
Lev
25:17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God:
for I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
25:18 " 'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my
ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
Lev
25:19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill,
and dwell therein in safety.
Lev
25:20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold,
we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"
Lev
25:21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and
it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
Lev
25:22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old
store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat
the old store.
Lev
25:23 " 'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land
is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
Lev
25:24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a
redemption for the land.
Lev
25:25 " 'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his
possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and
redeem that which his brother has sold.
Lev
25:26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous
and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
Lev
25:27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the
surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his
property.
Lev
25:28 But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he
has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the
Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he
shall return to his property.
Lev
25:29 " 'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then
he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a
full year he shall have the right of redemption.
Lev
25:30 If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to
him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be
released in the Jubilee.
Lev
25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them
shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Lev
25:32 " 'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in
the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
Lev
25:33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city
of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel.
Lev
25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold;
for it is their perpetual possession.
Lev
25:35 " 'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't
support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a
sojourner he shall live with you.
Lev
25:36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that
your brother may live among you.
Lev
25:37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him
your food for profit.
Lev
25:38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Lev
25:39 " 'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells
himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
Lev
25:40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you;
he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
Lev
25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him,
and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his
fathers.
Lev
25:42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land
of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
Lev
25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear
your God.
Lev
25:44 " 'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may
have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male
and female slaves.
Lev
25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among
you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you,
which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your
property.
Lev
25:46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you,
to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever:
but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one
over another, with harshness.
Lev
25:47 " 'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and
your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the
stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the
stranger's family;
Lev
25:48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may
redeem him;
Lev
25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who
is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has
grown rich, he may redeem himself.
Lev
25:50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he
sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale
shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a
hired servant shall he be with him.
Lev
25:51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give
back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought
for.
Lev
25:52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then
he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall
give back the price of his redemption.
Lev
25:53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall
not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Lev
25:54 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released
in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
Lev
25:55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh
your God.
Lev
26:1 " 'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall
you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place
any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh
your God.
Lev
26:2 " 'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my
sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
Lev
26:3 " 'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments,
and do them;
Lev
26:4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land
shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
Lev
26:5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the
full, and dwell in your land safely.
Lev
26:6 " 'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down,
and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out
of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Lev
26:7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by
the sword.
Lev
26:8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall
chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
Lev
26:9 " 'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Lev
26:10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the
old because of the new.
Lev
26:11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
Lev
26:12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be
my people.
Lev
26:13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the
bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Lev
26:14 " 'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all
these commandments;
Lev
26:15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors
my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break
my covenant;
Lev
26:16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you,
even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the
soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies will eat it.
Lev
26:17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before
your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will
flee when no one pursues you.
Lev
26:18 " 'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me,
then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
Lev
26:19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky
like iron, and your soil like brass;
Lev
26:20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't
yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their
fruit.
Lev
26:21 " 'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me,
then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your
sins.
Lev
26:22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of
your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and your roads will become desolate.
Lev
26:23 " 'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but
will walk contrary to me;
Lev
26:24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you,
even I, seven times for your sins.
Lev
26:25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance
of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your
cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be
delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Lev
26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your
bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight:
and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Lev
26:27 " 'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk
contrary to me;
Lev
26:28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will
chastise you seven times for your sins.
Lev
26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the
flesh of your daughters.
Lev
26:30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense
altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and
my soul will abhor you.
Lev
26:31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries
to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of
your offerings.
Lev
26:32 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that
dwell therein will be astonished at it.
Lev
26:33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the
sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities
shall be a waste.
Lev
26:34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies
desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will
rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Lev
26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest
which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
Lev
26:36 " 'As for those of you who are left, I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the
sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee,
as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
Lev
26:37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the
sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand
before your enemies.
Lev
26:38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your
enemies will eat you up.
Lev
26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in
your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers
shall they pine away with them.
Lev
26:40 " 'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of
their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me,
and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
Lev
26:41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land
of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and
they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
Lev
26:42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will
remember the land.
Lev
26:43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its
sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept
the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected
my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Lev
26:44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies,
I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their
God;
Lev
26:45 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their
ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.' "
Lev
26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made
between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
Lev
27:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
27:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a
man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation.
Lev
27:3 Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to
sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of
silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Lev
27:4 If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Lev
27:5 If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old,
then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a
female ten shekels.
Lev
27:6 If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then
your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a
female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
Lev
27:7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a
male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female
ten shekels.
Lev
27:8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set
before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the
ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.
Lev
27:9 " 'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to
Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.
Lev
27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a
bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then
both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.
Lev
27:11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an
offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;
Lev
27:12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As
you the priest values it, so shall it be.
Lev
27:13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth
part of it to its valuation.
Lev
27:14 " 'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh,
then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the
priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.
Lev
27:15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall
add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall
be his.
Lev
27:16 " 'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his
possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for
it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels
of silver.
Lev
27:17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according
to your valuation it shall stand.
Lev
27:18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the
priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that
remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from
your valuation.
Lev
27:19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he
shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it
shall remain his.
Lev
27:20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field
to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
Lev
27:21 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy
to Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.
Lev
27:22 " 'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought,
which is not of the field of his possession,
Lev
27:23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your
valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation
on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
Lev
27:24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom
it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land
belongs.
Lev
27:25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the
sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Lev
27:26 " 'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a
firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep,
it is Yahweh's.
Lev
27:27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back
according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of
it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your
valuation.
Lev
27:28 " 'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall
devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted
thing is most holy to Yahweh.
Lev
27:29 " 'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men,
shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
Lev
27:30 " 'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.
Lev
27:31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth
part to it.
Lev
27:32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes
under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
Lev
27:33 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall
he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for
which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.' "
Lev
27:34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for
the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Apr. 2,
3
Luke 3
Luk 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luk 3:2
in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came
to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
Luk 3:3
He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism
of repentance for remission of sins.
Luk 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way
of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
Luk 3:5
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought
low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
Luk 3:6
All flesh will see God's salvation.' "
Luk 3:7
He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by
him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the
wrath to come?
Luk 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin
to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell
you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these
stones!
Luk 3:9
Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree
therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown
into the fire."
Luk
3:10 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
Luk
3:11 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to
him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
Luk
3:12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him,
"Teacher, what must we do?"
Luk
3:13 He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is
appointed to you."
Luk
3:14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must
we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence,
neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
Luk
3:15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in
their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
Luk
3:16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water,
but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I
am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and
fire,
Luk
3:17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his
threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will
burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Luk
3:18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the
people,
Luk
3:19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his
brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
Luk
3:20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luk
3:21 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also
had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
Luk
3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on
him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved
Son. In you I am well pleased."
Luk
3:23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years
old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Luk
3:24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son
of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
Luk
3:25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the
son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
Luk
3:26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the
son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
Luk
3:27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the
son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
Luk
3:28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son
of Elmodam, the son of Er,
Luk
3:29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son
of Matthat, the son of Levi,
Luk
3:30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son
of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
Luk
3:31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the
son of Nathan, the son of David,
Luk
3:32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of
Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
Luk
3:33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the
son of Perez, the son of Judah,
Luk
3:34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son
of Terah, the son of Nahor,
Luk
3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of
Eber, the son of Shelah,
Luk
3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the
son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
Luk
3:37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the
son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
Luk
3:38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of
God.
Apr. 4
Luke 4
Luk 4:1
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was
led by the Spirit into the wilderness
Luk 4:2
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those
days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
Luk 4:3
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this
stone to become bread."
Luk 4:4
Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word of God.' "
Luk 4:5
The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the
kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6
The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and
their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to
whomever I want.
Luk 4:7
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
Luk 4:8
Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written,
'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'
"
Luk 4:9
He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down
from here,
Luk
4:10 for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you, to
guard you;'
Luk
4:11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you
dash your foot against a stone.' "
Luk
4:12 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You
shall not tempt the Lord your God.' "
Luk
4:13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from
him until another time.
Luk
4:14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and
news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
Luk
4:15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Luk
4:16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered,
as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood
up to read.
Luk
4:17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the
book, and found the place where it was written,
Luk
4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed
me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of
sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Luk
4:19 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
Luk
4:20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat
down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk
4:21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been
fulfilled in your hearing."
Luk
4:22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this
Joseph's son?"
Luk
4:23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable,
'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum,
do also here in your hometown.' "
Luk
4:24 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is
acceptable in his hometown.
Luk
4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the
days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months,
when a great famine came over all the land.
Luk
4:26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the
land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Luk
4:27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the
prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the
Syrian."
Luk
4:28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard
these things.
Luk
4:29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the
brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw
him off the cliff.
Luk
4:30 But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
Luk
4:31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching
them on the Sabbath day,
Luk
4:32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with
authority.
Luk
4:33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean
demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
Luk
4:34 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of
Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the
Holy One of God!"
Luk
4:35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of
him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came
out of him, having done him no harm.
Luk
4:36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with
another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and
power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
Luk
4:37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding
region.
Luk
4:38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house.
Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they
begged him for her.
Luk
4:39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her.
Immediately she rose up and served them.
Luk
4:40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with
various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every
one of them, and healed them.
Luk
4:41 Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You
are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow
them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luk
4:42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited
place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held
on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.
Luk
4:43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the
Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been
sent."
Luk
4:44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
