Formation Journal Reading Plan

3:1 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.

3:2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.

3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don’t come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”

3:5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

3:6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

3:7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

3:8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

3:9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”

3:10 Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

3:12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

3:13 It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.”

3:14 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

3:15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

3:16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

3:17 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

116:1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

116:2 Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

116:3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

116:4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

116:5 Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

116:6 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

116:7 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

116:9 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

116:10 I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

12:35 “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

12:36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

12:38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

12:40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

12:41 Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”

12:42 The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

12:44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

12:47 That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

12:48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.