Formation Journal Reading Plan

1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

1:2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

1:4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.

1:5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.

1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.

1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.

1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.

1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”

1:16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.

1:18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

1:19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

1:20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:25 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:27 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.

1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:29 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:31 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

1:32 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:33 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:35 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

1:37 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

1:39 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

1:41 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

1:43 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house.

1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;

1:46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

1:48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

1:49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

1:50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

1:51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

1:54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

80:7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

80:8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

80:9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

80:10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

80:11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

80:12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

80:13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

80:14 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

80:15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

80:16 It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

80:17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

80:18 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

80:19 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

12:13 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

12:14 When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

12:16 They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”

12:17 Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

12:18 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

12:19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

12:20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

12:21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

12:22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

12:23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

12:24 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

12:25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

12:26 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”