Formation Journal Reading Plan

40:1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

40:3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

40:4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

40:5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

40:6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

40:7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

40:8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”

40:9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

40:10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.

40:11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”

40:12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

40:13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.

40:14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

40:15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

40:17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

40:18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

40:19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

40:20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

40:21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

40:22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

40:23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

34:1 By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

34:2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

34:3 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.

34:4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

34:5 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

34:7 The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

34:8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

34:9 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

13:24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?’

13:28 “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

13:29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”