Formation Journal Reading Plan

39:1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

39:2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

39:3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

39:4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

39:5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

39:6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

39:7 It happened after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

39:8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

39:9 He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

39:10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

39:11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

39:12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

39:13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

39:14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

39:15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

39:16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

39:17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

39:18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

39:19 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” that his wrath was kindled.

39:20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

39:21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

39:22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

39:23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

33:13 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

33:15 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.

33:18 Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

33:19 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

33:20 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

33:21 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

33:22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.

13:1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

13:2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

13:3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

13:4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

13:5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

13:6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

13:7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

13:8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

13:9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

13:10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

13:11 He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

13:12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

13:14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

13:15 for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.’

13:16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

13:17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

13:18 “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

13:19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

13:20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

13:21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

13:22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

13:23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”