Formation Journal Reading Plan

23:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

23:3 “‘Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

23:4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.

23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”

23:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:

23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

23:15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.

23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.

23:19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

23:21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

23:22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

23:23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23:24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

23:25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”

23:26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23:27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

23:28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

23:29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

23:30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

23:31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

23:33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23:34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.

23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

23:37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;

23:38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

23:39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

23:41 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,

23:43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”

23:44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.

24:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

24:2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.

24:5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.

24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.

24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.

24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

24:10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

24:11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

24:12 They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be declared to them.

24:13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

24:14 “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

24:15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

24:16 He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

24:17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

24:18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

24:22 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.’”

24:23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

78:32 For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

78:33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

78:34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

78:35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

78:41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

78:42 They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

78:43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

78:44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

78:48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

78:49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

78:50 He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

78:51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

78:53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

78:54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

78:55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;

78:57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

78:59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

78:60 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

78:61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

78:62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

78:63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

78:65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

78:69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

78:70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

78:71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

10:32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

10:33 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

10:34 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

10:35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”

10:36 He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

10:37 They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”

10:38 But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

10:39 They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

10:40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”

10:41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

10:42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

10:43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

10:44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

10:45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

10:46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

10:48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

10:49 Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

10:50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

10:51 Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

10:52 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.