Formation Journal Reading Plan

19:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19:2 “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and which was never yoked.

19:3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:

19:4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

19:5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

19:6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

19:8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

19:9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.

19:10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

19:11 “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

19:12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

19:13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

19:14 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

19:15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

19:16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

19:17 “For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

19:18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

19:19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

19:20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

19:21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

19:22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

89:38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

89:39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

89:40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

89:41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

89:43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

89:44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

89:45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

89:46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

89:47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

89:48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

89:49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

89:51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

89:52 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen.

1:26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

1:27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

1:28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

1:29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

1:30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

1:31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

1:32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

1:33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

1:34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

1:35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

1:36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

1:37 For everything spoken by God is possible.”

1:38 Mary said, “Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.