Formation Journal Reading Plan

23:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

23:3 Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.

23:4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season.

23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah’s passover.

23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

23:9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:

23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

23:12 And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.

23:13 And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:

23:16 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah.

23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits unto Jehovah.

23:18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering unto Jehovah, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

23:19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.

23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.

23:21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the soujourner: I am Jehovah your God.

23:23 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

23:25 Ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

23:26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

23:27 Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

23:28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God.

23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people.

23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people.

23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

23:33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Jehovah.

23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work.

23:37 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day;

23:38 besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto Jehovah.

23:39 Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days.

23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.

23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;

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 Jehovah your God.

23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the set feasts of Jehovah.

24:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

24:3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

24:5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.

24:6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.

24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

24:8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.

24:9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.

24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:

24:11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

24:12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.

24:13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

24:14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, shall be put to death.

24:17 And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

24:18 And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

24:20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

24:21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.

24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

78:32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.

78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.

78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

78:40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

78:41 And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

78:42 They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,

78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.

78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.

78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.

78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.

78:50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

78:51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

78:53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.

78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

78:57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.

78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.

78:63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

78:66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.

78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

78:70 He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

78:71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

10:32 And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were to happen unto him,

10:33 saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles:

10:34 and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.

10:35 And there come near unto him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying unto him, Teacher, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall ask of thee.

10:36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

10:37 And they said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy glory.

10:38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

10:39 And they said unto him, We are able. And Jesus said unto them, The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

10:40 but to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared.

10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be moved with indignation concerning James and John.

10:42 And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.

10:43 But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister;

10:44 and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

10:45 For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

10:46 And they come to Jericho: and as he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timæus, Bartimæus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way side.

10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

10:48 And many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried out the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

10:49 And Jesus stood still, and said, Call ye him. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good cheer: rise, he calleth thee.

10:50 And he, casting away his garment, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

10:51 And Jesus answered him, and said, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.

10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And straightway he received his sight, and followed him in the way.