Formation Journal Reading Plan

4:1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

4:2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”

4:3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

4:4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

4:5 “That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

4:6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

4:7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

4:8 “It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

4:9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

4:10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

4:11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

4:13 He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

4:14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

4:15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

4:16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

4:17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

4:18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

4:19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

4:20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.

4:21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

4:22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

4:23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”

4:24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

4:26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

4:27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.

4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

4:29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

4:30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

4:31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

44:1 For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

44:2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

44:3 For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

44:4 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

44:5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

44:7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

44:8 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

44:9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

44:10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

44:11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

44:16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

19:13 Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

19:14 But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

19:15 He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

19:16 Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

19:17 He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

19:18 He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

19:19 ‘Honor your father and mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

19:20 The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

19:21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

19:22 But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

19:23 Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”

19:25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

19:26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

19:27 Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

19:28 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

19:29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

19:30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.