Formation Journal Reading Plan

48:1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

48:2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

48:4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.’

48:5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

48:6 Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

48:7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).”

48:8 Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”

48:9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

48:11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also.”

48:12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

48:13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.

48:14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

48:15 He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

48:16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

48:17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

48:18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

48:19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.”

48:20 He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

48:21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

38:13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

38:14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

38:15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

38:16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

38:17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

38:18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

38:19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

38:20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

38:21 Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

38:22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

15:29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

15:30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

15:31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.

15:32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

15:33 The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

15:34 Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

15:35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;

15:36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

15:37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

15:38 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

15:39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.

16:1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

16:2 But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

16:3 In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

16:5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

16:6 Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

16:7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

16:8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

16:9 Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

16:10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

16:11 How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

16:12 Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.