Formation Journal Reading Plan

9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

9:4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

9:5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

9:6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

9:7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

9:8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9:9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

9:11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

9:12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

9:13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

9:14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

9:18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

9:20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

9:21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

9:23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

9:24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

9:25 He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers.”

9:26 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

9:27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

9:28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

9:29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

9:1 For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

9:3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

9:4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

9:5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

9:7 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

9:8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

9:9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

9:10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

9:13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

9:14 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

9:17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

9:19 Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

9:20 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

4:23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

4:24 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

4:25 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

5:1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

5:2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

5:5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

5:7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

5:10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

5:11 “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

5:12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.