Formation Journal Reading Plan

17:1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

17:2 If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

17:3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

17:4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

17:5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

17:8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

17:9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

17:10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

17:12 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.

17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

17:14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;”

17:15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

17:16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

17:18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

17:20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

18:1 The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.

18:2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

18:3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

18:4 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

18:5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.

18:6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;

18:7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

18:9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

18:10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

18:13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

18:16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

18:17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.

18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

18:19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

18:20 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

18:21 If you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”

18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

106:25 but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

106:26 Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

106:27 that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

106:28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

106:30 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

106:31 That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

106:32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

106:33 because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

106:34 They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,

106:35 but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

106:36 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

106:37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

106:38 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

106:40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

106:41 He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

106:43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

106:45 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

106:46 He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

106:47 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

106:48 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!

8:40 It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

8:41 Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

8:42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

8:43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,

8:44 came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

8:45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

8:47 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

8:48 He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

8:49 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”

8:50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”

8:51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

8:52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

8:53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

8:54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”

8:55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

8:56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.