Formation Journal Reading Plan

24:1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

24:2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.”

24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

24:4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

24:5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

24:8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

24:9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

24:10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

24:11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

24:12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

24:13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

24:14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

24:15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

24:16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

24:17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

24:18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

59:1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

59:3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

59:4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

59:5 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

59:6 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

59:7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For,” they say, “who hears us?”

59:8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

59:9 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

59:10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

59:11 Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

59:13 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

59:14 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

59:15 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

59:16 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

59:17 To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

27:47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”

27:48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.

27:49 The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”

27:50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

27:51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

27:52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

27:53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

27:54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

27:55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

27:56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

27:57 When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

27:58 This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

27:59 Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

27:61 Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

27:62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

27:63 saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

27:64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

27:65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”

27:66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.