Bible Reading for April 26 and 27
World English Bible
Apr.
26
Deuteronomy
7, 8
Deu
7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go
to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations
greater and mightier than you;
Deu
7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and
you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall
make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
Deu
7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you
shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your
son.
Deu
7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against
you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Deu
7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down
their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their
Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deu
7:6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God
has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deu
7:7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you
were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all
peoples:
Deu
7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath
which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deu
7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful
God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Deu
7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them:
he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his
face.
Deu
7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
Deu
7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and
keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the
covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
Deu
7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will
also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your
grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock
and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your
fathers to give you.
Deu
7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
Deu
7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will
lay them on all those who hate you.
Deu
7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall
deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve
their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
Deu
7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
Deu
7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what
Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
Deu
7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which
Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all
the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deu
7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until
those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Deu
7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the
midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Deu
7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals
of the field increase on you.
Deu
7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will
confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
Deu
7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make
their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able
to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
Deu
7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You
shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it
for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to
Yahweh your God.
Deu
7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become
a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deu
8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you
this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deu
8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to
prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his
commandments, or not.
Deu
8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he
might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by
everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
Deu
8:4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot
swell, these forty years.
Deu
8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
so Yahweh your God chastens you.
Deu
8:6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in
his ways, and to fear him.
Deu
8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into
valleys and hills;
Deu
8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and
pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deu
8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you
shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deu
8:10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God
for the good land which he has given you.
Deu
8:11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command
you this day:
Deu
8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly
houses, and lived therein;
Deu
8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver
and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Deu
8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage;
Deu
8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in
which were fiery serpents and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth
water out of the rock of flint;
Deu
8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers
didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you,
to do you good at your latter end:
Deu
8:17 and lest
you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten
me this wealth.
Deu
8:18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he
swore to your fathers, as at this day.
Deu
8:19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against
you this day that you shall surely perish.
Deu
8:20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you
shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your
God.
Apr.
27
Deuteronomy
9, 10
Deu
9:1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in
to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities
great and fortified up to the sky,
Deu
9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know,
and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of
Anak?
Deu
9:3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes
over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he
will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and
make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
Deu
9:4 Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them
out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought
me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these
nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
Deu
9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your
heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of
these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you,
and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu
9:6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good
land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked
people.
Deu
9:7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the
land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious
against Yahweh.
Deu
9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry
with you to destroy you.
Deu
9:9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you,
then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did
neither eat bread nor drink water.
Deu
9:10 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the
finger of God; and on them was written
according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deu
9:11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that
Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant.
Deu
9:12 Yahweh said to me, Arise, get down quickly from hence; for your
people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I
commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deu
9:13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
Deu
9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and
greater than they.
Deu
9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain
was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my
two hands.
Deu
9:16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God;
you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly
out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
Deu
9:17 I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two
hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Deu
9:18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all
your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
Deu
9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which
Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to
me that time also.
Deu
9:20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed
for Aaron also at the same time.
Deu
9:21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with
fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as
dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the
mountain.
Deu
9:22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you
provoked Yahweh to wrath.
Deu
9:23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against
the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor
listen to his voice.
Deu
9:24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I
knew you.
Deu
9:25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights
that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Deu
9:26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your
people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your
greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand.
Deu
9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look
to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to
their sin,
Deu
9:28 lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and
because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness.
Deu
9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you
brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Deu
10:1 At that time Yahweh said to me, Cut two tables of stone like
the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of
wood.
Deu
10:2 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first
tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
Deu
10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone
like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables
in my hand.
Deu
10:4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to
me.
Deu
10:5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in
the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
Deu
10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to
Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his
son ministered in the priest's office in his place.
Deu
10:7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
Deu
10:8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to
him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deu
10:9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his
brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God
spoke to him.)
Deu
10:10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and
forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would
not destroy you.
Deu
10:11 Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people;
and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their
fathers to give to them.
Deu
10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to
fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and
to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu
10:13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I
command you this day for your good?
Deu
10:14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of
heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Deu
10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this
day.
Deu
10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiff-necked.
Deu
10:17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the
great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons,
nor takes reward.
Deu
10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and
loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
Deu
10:19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the
land of Egypt.
Deu
10:20 You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you
shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Deu
10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you
these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
Deu
10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and
now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for
multitude.
Apr.
26, 27
Luke 15
Luk
15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him
to hear him.
Luk
15:2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man
welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
Luk
15:3 He told them this parable.
Luk
15:4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost
one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go
after the one that was lost, until he found it?
Luk
15:5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders,
rejoicing.
Luk
15:6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his
neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my
sheep which was lost!'
Luk
15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over
one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who
need no repentance.
Luk
15:8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one
drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she found it?
Luk
15:9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and
neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma
which I had lost.'
Luk
15:10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner repenting."
Luk
15:11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.
Luk
15:12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my
share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
Luk
15:13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this
together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his
property with riotous living.
Luk
15:14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in
that country, and he began to be in need.
Luk
15:15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that
country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luk
15:16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate,
but no one gave him any.
Luk
15:17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
Luk
15:18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
Luk
15:19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of
your hired servants." '
Luk
15:20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still
far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luk
15:21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
Luk
15:22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best
robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet.
Luk
15:23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and
celebrate;
Luk
15:24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.' They began to celebrate.
Luk
15:25 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to
the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luk
15:26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going
on.
Luk
15:27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has
killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and
healthy.'
Luk
15:28 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father
came out, and begged him.
Luk
15:29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have
served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you
never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luk
15:30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living
with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
Luk
15:31 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all
that is mine is yours.
Luk
15:32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this,
your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is
found.' "
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the eye in an effort to glean useful information in developing better
photographic and video technology. As effective as the human eye is,
however, there are certain things it cannot do. One of those is to
detect ultraviolet light. But researchers have recently discovered a
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In
2011, the renowned atheist, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist of
Cambridge University, the late Stephen Hawking, was given a platform to
spread his atheistic perspective (“Curiosity…,” 2011). Discovery Channel
aired a show titled, “Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe?” Hawking
adamantly claimed, “No.” He claimed that there is no need for God in the
picture, since he believes everything in the Universe can be explained
without Him (see Miller, 2011a for an in depth response to Hawking’s
claims in the show).