Formation Journal Reading Plan

1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

1:5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

1:6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

1:7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

1:9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

1:10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

1:13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

1:15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

1:16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

1:17 But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

1:18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”

1:19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

1:20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

1:21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

1:22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

41:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

41:3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

41:4 I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

41:5 My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

41:6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

41:7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

41:8 “An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

41:10 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

41:11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

41:12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

17:14 When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying,

17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

17:16 So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

17:17 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

17:18 Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

17:20 He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

17:21 But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

17:22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

17:23 and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.