Formation Journal Reading Plan

12:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

12:2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

12:4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

12:9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

12:11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

12:15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

12:16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

12:17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

12:19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

12:24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

12:25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

12:26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

12:27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

12:28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

12:29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

12:30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

12:31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

12:33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

12:35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

12:36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

12:37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

12:41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

12:42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

12:43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

12:44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

12:45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

12:48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

12:49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”

12:50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

12:51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

50:1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

50:4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

50:5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

50:7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

50:8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

23:13 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

23:14 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

23:16 “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

23:17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

23:18 ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

23:19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

23:20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

23:21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

23:22 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

23:24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

23:26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

23:28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

23:29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

23:30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

23:31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

23:32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

23:33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

23:34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

23:35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

23:36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

23:38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”