Bible Reading
March 9
The World English Bible
Mar.
9
Exodus
19
Exo
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth
out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the
wilderness of Sinai.
Exo
19:2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the
wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there
Israel encamped before the mountain.
Exo
19:3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the
mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
Exo
19:4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you
on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
Exo
19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my
covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples;
for all the earth is mine;
Exo
19:6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy
nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of
Israel."
Exo
19:7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set
before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
Exo
19:8 All the people answered together, and said, "All that
Yahweh has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the
people to Yahweh.
Exo
19:9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick
cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also
believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to
Yahweh.
Exo
19:10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify
them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
Exo
19:11 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day
Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
Exo
19:12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be
careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border.
Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
Exo
19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot
through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the
trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
Exo
19:14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exo
19:15 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't
have sexual relations with a woman."
Exo
19:16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there
were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and
the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were
in the camp trembled.
Exo
19:17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they
stood at the lower part of the mountain.
Exo
19:18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in
fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mountain quaked greatly.
Exo
19:19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses
spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
Exo
19:20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.
Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
Exo
19:21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest
they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
Exo
19:22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify
themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
Exo
19:23 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount
Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain,
and sanctify it.' "
Exo
19:24 Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up
with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to
come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
Exo
19:25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
Mar. 9, 10
Mark 7
Mar 7:1 Then the
Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having
come from Jerusalem.
Mar 7:2 Now when they
saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is,
unwashed, hands, they found fault.
Mar 7:3 (For the
Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands
and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
Mar 7:4 They don't eat
when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves,
and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to:
washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
Mar 7:5 The Pharisees
and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk
according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with
unwashed hands?"
Mar 7:6 He answered
them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is
written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is
far from me.
Mar 7:7 But in vain do
they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'
Mar 7:8 "For you
set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition
of men-the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such
things."
Mar 7:9 He said to
them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you
may keep your tradition.
Mar 7:10 For Moses
said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil
of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Mar 7:11 But you say,
'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you
might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"
'
Mar 7:12 then you no
longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
Mar 7:13 making void
the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do
many things like this."
Mar 7:14 He called all
the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of
you, and understand.
Mar 7:15 There is
nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him;
but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the
man.
Mar 7:16 If anyone has
ears to hear, let him hear!"
Mar 7:17 When he had
entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him
about the parable.
Mar 7:18 He said to
them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you
perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile
him,
Mar 7:19 because it
doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the
latrine, thus making all foods clean?"
Mar 7:20 He said, "That
which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
Mar 7:21 For from
within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mar 7:22 covetings,
wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
and foolishness.
Mar 7:23 All these evil
things come from within, and defile the man."
Mar 7:24 From there he
arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered
into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't
escape notice.
Mar 7:25 For a woman,
whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him,
came and fell down at his feet.
Mar 7:26 Now the woman
was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would
cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mar 7:27 But Jesus said
to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not
appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Mar 7:28 But she
answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat
the children's crumbs."
Mar 7:29 He said to
her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of
your daughter."
Mar 7:30 She went away
to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with
the demon gone out.
Mar 7:31 Again he
departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of
Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
Mar 7:32 They brought
to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They
begged him to lay his hand on him.
Mar 7:33 He took him
aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his
ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
Mar 7:34 Looking up to
heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is,
"Be opened!"
Mar 7:35 Immediately
his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released,
and he spoke clearly.
Mar 7:36 He commanded
them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so
much the more widely they proclaimed it.
Mar 7:37 They were
astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well.
He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
