Formation Journal Reading Plan

14:1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

14:4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.

14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

14:8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

14:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;

14:10 and whatever doesn’t have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

14:12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,

14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,

14:14 and every raven after its kind,

14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,

14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

14:19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

14:20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

14:23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

14:24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;

14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:

14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

14:27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

15:2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

15:4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

15:5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

15:13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

15:16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you;” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

15:19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

15:20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

15:21 If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

105:23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

105:24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

105:26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

105:27 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

105:31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

105:32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

105:33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

105:35 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

105:36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

105:37 He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

105:42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

105:43 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

105:45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

8:16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

8:17 For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

8:18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

8:19 His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.

8:20 It was told him by some saying, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”

8:21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”