Formation Journal Reading Plan

16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

16:4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.

16:7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work.

16:9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

16:12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:

16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

16:15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:

16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.

16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

16:20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.

16:22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

106:1 Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?

106:3 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

106:4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

106:5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

106:6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

106:7 Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

106:10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

106:12 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

106:13 They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

106:14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

106:15 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

106:18 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

106:20 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

106:21 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

8:22 Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.

8:23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

8:24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

8:25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, “Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

8:26 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

8:27 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

8:29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

8:30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

8:31 They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

8:32 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.

8:33 The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

8:34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

8:35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

8:36 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

8:37 All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.

8:38 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

8:39 “Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.