Formation Journal Reading Plan

25:1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

25:2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

25:3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.

25:4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

25:5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

25:6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

25:7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;

25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

25:10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

25:11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

25:12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:

25:13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”

25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

25:15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

25:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

25:17 “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

25:18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

93:1 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

93:2 Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

93:3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

93:4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

93:5 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forevermore.

2:21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

2:22 When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

2:23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

2:25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

2:26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

2:27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

2:28 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

2:29 “Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

2:30 for my eyes have seen your salvation,

2:31 which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;

2:32 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

2:33 Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,

2:34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

2:35 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

2:36 There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

2:37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

2:38 Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

2:39 When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

2:40 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.