Formation Journal Reading Plan

23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:

23:4 because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.

23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp:

23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:

23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:

23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:

23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

23:24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

23:25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

24:17 You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.

24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

24:21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

109:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

109:2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

109:3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

109:4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

109:5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

109:6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

109:8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

109:10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

109:11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

109:12 Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

109:13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109:15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

9:51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,

9:52 and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

9:53 They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

9:54 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

9:55 But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

9:56 For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

9:57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

9:58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

9:59 He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

9:60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

9:61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”