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Daily Bible Reading
February 25 - Bible-in-a-Year
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Exodus 33,34
The Journey Resumed
1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which (C1)I swore to Abraham, (C2)Isaac, and (C3)Jacob, saying, '(C4)To your (F1)descendants I will give it.'2 "And I will send (C1)an angel before you and (C2)I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.3 "Go up to a land (C1)flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are (F1)(C2)an obstinate people, and (C3)I might destroy you on the way."
4 When the people heard this (F1)sad word, (C1)they went into mourning, and none of them put on his jewelry.5 For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel, 'You are (F1)(C1)an obstinate people; if I (F2)were to go up in your midst for just one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your (F3)jewelry that I may know what I shall do to you.'"6 So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry, from Mount Horeb onward.
7 Now Moses used to take (C1)the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And (C2)everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.8 And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.9 Whenever Moses entered the tent, (C1)the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; (C2)and (F1)the LORD would speak with Moses.10 When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would stand and worship, each at the entrance of his tent.11 So (C1)the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When (F1)Moses returned to the camp, (C2)his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Moses Intercedes
12 Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, '(C1)Bring up this people!' But You Yourself have not let me know (C2)whom You will send with me. (C3)Moreover, You have said, 'I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.'13 "Now then, if I have found favor in Your sight in any way, please (C1)let me know Your ways so that I may know You, in order that I may find favor in Your sight. (C2)Consider too, that this nation is Your people."14 And He said, "(C1)My presence shall go with you, and (C2)I will give you rest."15 Then he said to Him, "(C1)If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.16 "For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that (C1)we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the (F1)earth?"
17 The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; (C1)for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name."18 (C1)Then Moses said, "Please, show me Your glory!"19 And He said, "(C1)I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and (C2)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion."20 He further said, "You cannot see My face, (C1)for mankind shall not see Me and live!"21 Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place (F1)by Me, and (C1)you shall stand there on the rock;22 and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and (C1)cover you with My hand until I have passed by.23 "Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but (C1)My face shall not be seen."
The Two Tablets Replaced
1 Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself (C1)two stone tablets like the former ones, and (C2)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed.2 "So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to (C1)Mount Sinai, and (F1)present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.3 "And (C1)no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen (F1)anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain."4 So he cut out (C1)two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand.5 And (C1)the LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he (F1)called upon the name of the LORD.6 Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, (C1)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and (F1)truth;7 who (C1)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He (C2)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, (C3)inflicting the (F1)punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."8 And Moses hurried (F1)(C1)to bow low toward the ground and worship.9 Then he said, "(C1)If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though (F1)(C2)the people are so obstinate, and (C3)pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and (C4)take us as Your own (F2)possession."
The Covenant Renewed
10 Then (F1)God said, "Behold, (C1)I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people (C2)I will perform miracles which have not been (F2)produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people (F3)among whom you live will see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.
11 "(F1)Be sure to comply with what I am commanding you this day: behold, (C1)I am going to drive out the Amorite from you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.12 "(C1)Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.13 "(C1)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their (F1)(C2)Asherim14 —for (C1)you shall not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and (C1)sacrifice to their gods, and someone (C2)might invite you (F1)to eat of his sacrifice,16 and (C1)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods.17 "(C1)You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.
18 "You shall keep (C1)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For (C2)seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, (F1)as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the (C3)month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 "(C1)The (F1)firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the (F1)firstborn from (F2)cattle and sheep.20 "(C1)You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem (C2)all the firstborn of your sons. (F1)(C3)None are to appear before Me empty-handed.
21 "You shall work (C1)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.22 "And you shall celebrate (C1)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.23 "(C1)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord (F1)GOD, the God of Israel.24 "For I will (F1)(C1)drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
25 "(C1)You shall not (F1)offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, (C2)nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to (F2)be left over until morning.
26 "You shall bring (C1)the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God.
27 Then the LORD said to Moses, "(C1)Write (F1)down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made (C2)a covenant with you and with Israel."28 So he was there with the LORD for (C1)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And (F1)(C2)He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, (C3)the Ten (F2)Commandments.
Moses' Face Shines
29 And it came about, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the (C1)two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that (C2)the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.30 So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and (C1)they were afraid to approach him.31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.32 Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had spoken (F1)to him on Mount Sinai.33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, (C1)he put a veil over his face.34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, (C1)he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,35 (C1)the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with Him.
Proverbs 15
Chapter 15
Contrast of the Upright and the Wicked
1 A (C1)gentle answer turns away wrath,
But a (F1)(C2)harsh word stirs up anger.
2 The (C1)tongue of the wise makes knowledge pleasant,
But the (C2)mouth of fools spouts foolishness.
3 The (C1)eyes of the LORD are in every place,
Watching the evil and the good.
4 A (F1)soothing tongue is a tree of life,
But perversion in it (F2)crushes the spirit.
5 A fool (F1)rejects his father's discipline,
But he who complies with rebuke is sensible.
6 Great wealth is in the house of the (C1)righteous,
But trouble is in the income of the wicked.
7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge,
But the hearts of fools are not so.
8 The (C1)sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD,
But (C2)the prayer of the upright is His delight.
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD,
But He loves the one who (C1)pursues righteousness.
10 There is severe punishment for one who abandons the way;
One who hates a rebuke will die.
11 (F1)(C1)Sheol and (F2)Abaddon lie open before the LORD,
How much more the (C2)hearts of (F3)mankind!
12 A (C1)scoffer does not love one who rebukes him;
He will not go to the wise.
13 A (C1)joyful heart makes a (F1)cheerful face,
But (F2)when the heart is (C2)sad, the (C3)spirit is broken.
14 The (C1)mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
15 All the days of the (F1)needy are bad,
But a (F2)cheerful heart has a continual feast.
16 (C1)Better is a little with (F1)the fear of the LORD
Than great treasure, and turmoil with (F2)the treasure.
17 (C1)Better is a portion of (F1)vegetables where there is love,
Than a (C2)fattened ox served with hatred.
18 A (C1)hot-tempered person stirs up strife,
But the (C2)slow to anger (C3)calms a dispute.
19 The way of the (F1)lazy one is like a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.
20 A (C1)wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man (C2)despises his mother.
21 Foolishness is joy to one who lacks (F1)sense,
But a person of understanding (C1)walks straight.
22 Without consultation, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they (F1)succeed.
23 A (C1)person has joy in an (F1)apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely (C2)word!
24 The (C1)path of life leads upward for the wise,
So that he may keep away from (F1)Sheol below.
25 The LORD will (C1)tear down the house of the proud,
But He will (C2)set the boundary of the (C3)widow.
26 Evil plans are an abomination to the LORD,
But pleasant words are pure.
27 He who (C1)profits illicitly troubles his own house,
But he who (C2)hates bribes will live.
28 The heart of the righteous (C1)ponders how to answer,
But the (C2)mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
29 The LORD is (C1)far from the wicked,
But He (C2)hears the prayer of the righteous.
30 (F1)Bright eyes gladden the heart;
Good news (F2)refreshes the bones.
31 One whose ear listens to a life-giving rebuke
Will stay among the wise.
32 One who (C1)neglects discipline (C2)rejects himself,
But one who (C3)listens to a rebuke acquires (F1)understanding.
33 (F1)The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom,
And before honor comes humility.
Matthew 6:1-18
Chapter 6
Charitable Giving to the Poor and Prayer
1 "Take care not to practice your righteousness in the sight of people, (C1)to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
2 "So when you (F1)give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, so that they (C1)will be praised by people. (C2)Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.3 "But when you (F1)give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,4 so that your charitable giving will be in secret; and (C1)your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
5 "And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to (C1)stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners (C2)so that they (F1)will be seen by people. (C3)Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.6 "But as for you, when you pray, (C1)go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and (C2)your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
7 "And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their (C1)many words.8 "So do not be like them; for (C1)your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
The Lord's Prayer
9 "(C1)Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father, who is in heaven,
(F1)Hallowed be Your name.
10 '(F1)(C1)Your kingdom come.
(C2)Your will be done,
(F2)On earth as it is in heaven.
11 '(C1)Give us this day (F1)our daily bread.
12 'And (C1)forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 'And do not lead us into temptation, but (C1)deliver us from (F1)(C2)evil.(F2)'
14 "(C1)For if you forgive other people for their (F1)offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.15 "But (C1)if you do not forgive other people, then your Father will not forgive your (F1)offenses.Fasting; The True Treasure; Wealth
16 "Now (C1)whenever you fast, do not make a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they (F1)distort their faces so that they will be noticed by people when they are fasting. (C2)Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.17 "But as for you, when you fast, (F1)(C1)anoint your head and wash your face,18 so that your fasting will not be noticed by people but by your Father who is in secret; and your (C1)Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.<
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