Formation Journal Reading Plan

1:1 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

1:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.

1:3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

1:5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

1:6 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.

1:7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;

1:8 and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

1:9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

1:10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.

1:11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

1:12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,

1:13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

1:14 “‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

1:15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

1:16 and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

1:17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

69:17 Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

69:21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

69:36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

4:30 He said, “How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

4:31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

4:32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

4:34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”

4:36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

4:37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

4:38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

4:39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

4:40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

4:41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”