Formation Journal Reading Plan

35:1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

35:3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”

35:4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

35:5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

35:7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

35:8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

35:9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

35:10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

35:11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

35:12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land.”

35:13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

35:14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

35:15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel.”

35:16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

35:18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

35:19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

35:21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

35:22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

35:28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

31:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

31:2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

31:6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

31:8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

31:9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

31:11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

31:12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

11:20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

11:22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

11:23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.

11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

11:25 At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

11:26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

11:27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

11:28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”