Formation Journal Reading Plan

25:1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

25:7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, “I don’t want to take her;”

25:9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

25:16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

109:16 because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

109:17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

109:19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

109:20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

109:21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

109:22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

109:23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

109:24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

109:25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

109:26 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

109:27 that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

109:28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

109:30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

109:31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

10:1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

10:2 Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

10:3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

10:4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

10:5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

10:6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

10:7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

10:8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

10:9 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

10:10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say,

10:11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

10:12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

10:13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

10:14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

10:15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

10:16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”