Formation Journal Reading Plan

19:1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;

19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn’t hate him in time past.

19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

19:8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

19:9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

19:11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

19:19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

19:21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

107:1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

107:2 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

107:3 And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

107:6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

107:7 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

107:8 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:9 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

107:11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

107:13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

107:15 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

107:17 Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

107:18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

107:19 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

107:20 He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

107:21 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:22 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

9:1 He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

9:2 He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

9:3 He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.

9:4 Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

9:5 As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

9:6 They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.

9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

9:8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

9:9 Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

9:10 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

9:11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.

9:12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

9:13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

9:14 For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

9:15 They did so, and made them all sit down.

9:16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

9:17 They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.