The Bible Reading Plan

Numbers Chapter 6

¹³"'This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of their separation are fulfilled, they are to be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, ¹⁴and offer their offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings, ¹⁵a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings. ¹⁶The priest is to present them in Yahweh's presence, and offer the sin offering and burnt offering. ¹⁷He is to offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest is to offer its meal offering and its drink offering [as well]. ¹⁸The Nazirite must shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. ¹⁹The priest is to take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation; ²⁰and the priest is to wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.

²¹"'This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to what he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do according to the law of his separation.'"

²²Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²³"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is how to bless the children of Israel.' Tell them, ²⁴'Yahweh bless you, and keep you. ²⁵Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. ²⁶Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.'

²⁷"So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."

Jeremiah Chapter 18

¹¹Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'Yahweh says, "Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your actions."' ¹²But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

¹³Therefore Yahweh says, "Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. ¹⁴Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? ¹⁵For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to emptiness; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up; ¹⁶to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head. ¹⁷I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

¹⁸Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. ¹⁹Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. ²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. ²¹Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slaughtered of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. ²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. ²³Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

Jeremiah Chapter 19

¹Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; ²and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you. ³Say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. ⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, ⁵and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: ⁶therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

⁷I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. ⁸I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. ⁹I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

Psalm 73

[BOOK 3]

A Psalm by Asaph.

¹Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. ²But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped. ³For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm. ⁵They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. ⁶Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. ⁷Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. ⁸They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. ⁹They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. ¹⁰Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance. ¹¹They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" ¹²Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches. ¹³Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence, ¹⁴For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning. ¹⁵If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children. ¹⁶When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; ¹⁷Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end. ¹⁸Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. ¹⁹How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. ²⁰As a dream when one wakes up, so, LordOfMine, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies. ²¹For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. ²²I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. ²³Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. ²⁴You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. ²⁵Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. ²⁶My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. ²⁷For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. ²⁸But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made LordOfMine Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Romans Chapter 15

¹⁴I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. ¹⁵But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, ¹⁶that I should be a servant of AnointedOne Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷So I have my boasting in AnointedOne Jesus in things pertaining to God. ¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which AnointedOne worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of AnointedOne; ²⁰yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where AnointedOne was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation. ²¹But, as it is written,
"They will see, to whom no news of him came.
They who haven't heard will understand."

²²So I was also hindered many times from coming to you, ²³but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you, ²⁴whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. ²⁵But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. ²⁶For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem. ²⁷Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. ²⁸So when I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. ²⁹I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the praise of the Good News of AnointedOne.

³⁰Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus AnointedOne and by the selfless-love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, ³¹that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, ³²that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest. ³³Now the God of peace be with you all. Absolutely.