Formation Journal Reading Plan

25:1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

25:4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

25:5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

25:6 but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

25:8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

25:11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

25:12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.

25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

25:19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

25:21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

25:22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

25:23 Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25:25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

25:27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

25:29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

25:30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

25:31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

25:32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

25:33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

22:1 For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

22:2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

22:3 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

22:4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

22:7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

22:8 “He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

22:9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother’s breasts.

22:10 I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

22:11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

22:12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

22:13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

22:16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

22:17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

22:18 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

8:14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

8:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.

8:16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;

8:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

8:19 A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

8:20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

8:21 Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

8:22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

8:23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

8:24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

8:25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

8:26 He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

8:27 The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

8:28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

8:29 Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

8:30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.

8:31 The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

8:32 He said to them, “Go!” They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

8:33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.

8:34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.