The Bible Reading Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 26

¹²When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you are to give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they can eat within your gates and be filled. ¹³Say in the presence of Yahweh your God, "I have removed the holy things from my house, and have also given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I haven't transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. ¹⁴I have not eaten [any of it whilst] mourning, nor have I removed [any while I was unclean], nor given [any for] the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God' voice. I have done exactly as you have commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey."

¹⁶Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. Therefore keep [them] and do them with all your heart and all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have declared that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. ¹⁸Today Yahweh has declared that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments. ¹⁹He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has said.

Deuteronomy Chapter 27

¹Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you today. ²On the day you cross the Jordan to [enter] the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with lime. ³Write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to go in to the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. ⁴When you have crossed over the Jordan set these stones up, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with lime. ⁵Build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. Don't use any iron [tool] on them. ⁶Build Yahweh your God's altar of uncut stones. Offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God. ⁷Sacrifice peace offerings, and eat there. Rejoice in Yahweh your God's presence. ⁸Write all the words of this law very plainly on the stones."

Nahum Chapter 1

¹An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. ²Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is master of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies. ³Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. ⁴He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. ⁵The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. ⁶Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. ⁷Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him. ⁸But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. ⁹What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time. ¹⁰For entangled like thorns, and drunk as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. ¹¹There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

¹²Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. ¹³Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart."

¹⁴Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the cast-metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

¹⁵Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

Nahum Chapter 2

¹He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

²For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

³The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. ⁴The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. ⁵He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. ⁶The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. ⁷It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. ⁸But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. ⁹Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all fine furniture. ¹⁰She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. ¹¹Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? ¹²The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

Daniel Chapter 3

¹³Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. ¹⁴Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be thrown that same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁶Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. ¹⁷If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ¹⁸But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your god, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

¹⁹Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. ²⁰He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, [and] to throw them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were thrown into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²²Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

²⁴Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we throw three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.

²⁵He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of God.

²⁶Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire. ²⁷The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.

Revelation Chapter 5

¹¹I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands; ¹²saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and praise!"

¹³I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the praise, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! [*Absolutely!]"

¹⁴The four living creatures said, "Absolutely!" Then the elders fell down and worshiped.

Revelation Chapter 6

¹I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!" ²And behold, a white horse, and the one sittting on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

³When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!" ⁴Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

⁵When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. ⁶I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

⁷When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!" ⁸And behold, a pale horse, and the name of the one sitting on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. ¹⁰They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" ¹¹A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.