Bible Reading February 3, 4, 5 (World English Bible)
Genesis
34
Gen
34:1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out
to see the daughters of the land.
Gen
34:2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land,
saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Gen
34:3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved
the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Gen
34:4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this
young lady as a wife."
Gen
34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and
his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace
until they came.
Gen
34:6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
Gen
34:7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it.
The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done
folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought
not to be done.
Gen
34:8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son,
Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Gen
34:9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our
daughters for yourselves.
Gen
34:10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live
and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
Gen
34:11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me
find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Gen
34:12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever
you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
Gen
34:13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with
deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Gen
34:14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our
sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Gen
34:15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be
as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
Gen
34:16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your
daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
Gen
34:17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we
will take our sister, and we will be gone."
Gen
34:18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
Gen
34:19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house
of his father.
Gen
34:20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city,
and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Gen
34:21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live
in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for
them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give
them our daughters.
Gen
34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with
us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as
they are circumcised.
Gen
34:23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their
animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will
dwell with us."
Gen
34:24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor,
and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went
out of the gate of his city.
Gen
34:25 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of
Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword,
came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Gen
34:26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
Gen
34:27 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
Gen
34:28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which
was in the city, that which was in the field,
Gen
34:29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones
and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the
house.
Gen
34:30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to
make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves
together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my
house."
Gen
34:31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a
prostitute?"
Genesis
35
Gen
35:1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live
there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled
from the face of Esau your brother."
Gen
35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him,
"Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify
yourselves, change your garments.
Gen
35:3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar
to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in
the way which I went."
Gen
35:4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their
hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem.
Gen
35:5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were
around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land
of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Gen
35:7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El;
because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of
his brother.
Gen
35:8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel
under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Gen
35:9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and
blessed him.
Gen
35:10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not
be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him
Israel.
Gen
35:11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and
multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and
kings will come out of your body.
Gen
35:12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to
you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
Gen
35:13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Gen
35:14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a
pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil
on it.
Gen
35:15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him
"Bethel."
Gen
35:16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to
come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Gen
35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't
be afraid, for now you will have another son."
Gen
35:18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that
she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Gen
35:19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same
is Bethlehem).
Gen
35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of
Rachel's grave to this day.
Gen
35:21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Gen
35:22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went
and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Gen
35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi,
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Gen
35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen
35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
Gen
35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These
are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Gen
35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba
(which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Gen
35:28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Gen
35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his
people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
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. 2, 3
Matthew 17
Mat 17:1
After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his
brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
Mat 17:2
He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his
garments became as white as the light.
Mat 17:3
Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
Mat 17:4
Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to
be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one
for Moses, and one for Elijah."
Mat 17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed
them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
Mat 17:6
When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very
afraid.
Mat 17:7
Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don't be
afraid."
Mat 17:8
Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
Mat 17:9
As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them,
saying, "Don't tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man
has risen from the dead."
Mat 17:10
His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say
that Elijah must come first?"
Mat 17:11
Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will
restore all things,
Mat 17:12
but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't
recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the
Son of Man will also suffer by them."
Mat 17:13
Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the
Baptizer.
Mat 17:14
When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to
him, saying,
Mat 17:15
"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers
grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the
water.
Mat 17:16
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
Mat 17:17
Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long
will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to
me."
Mat 17:18
Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured
from that hour.
Mat 17:19
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why
weren't we able to cast it out?"
Mat 17:20
He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I
tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell
this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and
nothing will be impossible for you.
Mat 17:21
But this kind doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting."
Mat 17:22
While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son
of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
Mat 17:23
and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."
They were exceedingly sorry.
Mat 17:24
When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma
coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the
didrachma?"
Mat 17:25
He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus
anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do
the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children,
or from strangers?"
Mat 17:26
Peter said to him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him,
"Therefore the children are exempt.
Mat 17:27
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and
take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth,
you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me
and you."
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."
not
only was his father a primary, quintessential Founder, but John Quincy
was literally nurtured by his father in the vicissitudes and intricacies
of the founding of the Republic. John Adams involved his son at an
early age in his own activities and travels on behalf of the fledgling
nation. John Quincy accompanied his father to France in 1778, became
Secretary to the American Minister to Russia, was the Secretary to his
father during peace negotiations that ended the American Revolution in
1783, served as U.S. foreign ambassador, both to
the Netherlands and later to Portugal, under George Washington, to
Prussia under his father’s presidency, and then to Russia and later to
England under President James Madison. He served as a U.S.
Senator, Secretary of State under President James Monroe, and then as
the nation’s sixth President (1825-1829), and finally as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives, where he was a staunch and fervent opponent of slavery.
Between
these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of
twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor
can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been
permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the
merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish
motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good
will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and
every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious
dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so
many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over
the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt,
1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).