The Bible Reading Plan

Exodus Chapter 32

¹When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods to go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we don't know what's become of him."

²Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

³All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. ⁴He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a cast-metal calf. Then they said, "This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

⁵When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow will be a feast to Yahweh."

⁶They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁷Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! ⁸They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a cast-metal calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.'"

⁹Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰Now therefore leave me alone, so my wrath may burn against them so I may consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."

2 Kings Chapter 5

⁸When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel."

⁹So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. ¹⁰Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will return to you, and you'll be clean."

¹¹But Naaman was angry, and went away and said, "Look, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.' ¹²Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be clean?" So he turned, and went away in a rage.

¹³His servants came near and spoke to him. They said, "My father, if the prophet had told you [to do] some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much more then, when [all] he says to you [is], 'Wash, and be clean'?"

¹⁴Then he went down and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God. His flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child. He was clean. ¹⁵He returned to the man of God, he and all his group, and came, and stood in front of him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant."

¹⁶But he said, "As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none."

He urged him to take it; but he refused. ¹⁷Naaman said, "If not, then, please let two mules' load of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but [only] to Yahweh. ¹⁸In this [one] matter may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow [with him] in the house of Rimmon. May Yahweh pardon your servant in this matter, when I bow down in the house of Rimmon."

¹⁹He said to him, "Go in peace."

So he departed from him a little way. ²⁰But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands what he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."

²¹So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

²²He said, "All is well. My master has sent me, saying, 'Look, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'"

²³Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them in front of him. ²⁴When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵But he went in, and stood in front of his master. Elisha said to him, "Where have you come from, Gehazi?"

He said, "Your servant did'nt go anywhere."

²⁶He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? ²⁷Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

2 Kings Chapter 6

¹The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us. ²Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "Go!"

³One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

⁴So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. ⁵But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

⁶The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. ⁷He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it.

Esther Chapter 5

⁹Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. ¹⁰Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. ¹¹Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

¹²Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. ¹³Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

¹⁴Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther Chapter 6

¹On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. ²It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on king Ahasuerus. ³The king said, "What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

John Chapter 8

²⁵So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. ²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

²⁷They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. ²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him. ³¹So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. ³²You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

³³They answered him, "We are Abraham's offspring, and have never been in slavery to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free'?"

³⁴Jesus answered them, "Absolutely. Absolutely I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. ³⁵A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. ³⁶So, if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free. ³⁷I know that you are Abraham's offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. ³⁸I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

³⁹They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the actions of Abraham. ⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do that. ⁴¹You do the actions of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

⁴²So Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would selflessly-love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. ⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. ⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me. ⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."