Formation Journal Reading Plan

21:1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them.

21:2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

21:3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

21:4 If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

21:6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

21:9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

21:11 And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

21:14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

21:17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

21:18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

21:19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

21:22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

21:23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

21:27 And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid-servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

21:28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

21:29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

21:30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

21:31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

21:32 If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein,

21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his.

21:35 And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide.

21:36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.

56:1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

56:2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

56:3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

56:4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?

56:5 All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

56:8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

56:9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

56:10 In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word),

56:11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?

56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.

56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?

26:57 And they that had taken Jesus led him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

26:58 But Peter followed him afar off, unto the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.

26:59 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

26:60 and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

26:61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

26:62 And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

26:65 Then the high priest rent his garments, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy: what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy:

26:66 what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands,

26:68 saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?

26:69 Now Peter was sitting without in the court: and a maid came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilæan.

26:70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.

26:71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and saith unto them that were there, This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.

26:72 And again he denied with an oath, I know not the man.

26:73 And after a little while they that stood by came and said to Peter, Of a truth thou also art one of them; for thy speech maketh thee known.

26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And straightway the cock crew.

26:75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.