Formation Journal Reading Plan

38:1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

38:2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.

38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.

38:4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.

38:5 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.

38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.

38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

38:8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

38:9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;

38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

38:11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

38:12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

38:13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits.

38:14 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;

38:15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

38:16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.

38:17 The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

38:18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.

38:19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

38:20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.

38:21 This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

38:22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

38:23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

38:26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

38:28 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

38:29 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.

38:30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,

38:31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.

68:21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

68:22 The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

68:23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

68:24 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

68:26 “Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

68:27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

68:28 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

68:30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord! Selah.

68:33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

68:34 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

68:35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

4:1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

4:2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

4:3 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

4:4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

4:5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

4:6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

4:7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

4:8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

4:9 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

4:10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

4:11 He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

4:12 that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

4:13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

4:14 The farmer sows the word.

4:15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

4:16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

4:17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

4:18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

4:19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

4:20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”