The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for November 30:

First, Deuteronomy Chapter 17 verses 8 to 20. Follow that by reading from Joel Chapter 2 verse 28 to Chapter 3 verse 21. The third part is from Song of Songs Chapter 5 verse 9 to Chapter 6 verse 13; and lastly 2 Peter Chapter 3

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here's the entire year's plan as a list. Enjoy!

Section 1

Deuteronomy 17:8-20

13 verses

Deuteronomy Chapter 17

⁸If a matter arises too hard for you to judge. Between blood and blood, between plea and plea, or between stroke and stroke. Matters of controversy within your gates, then arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses. ⁹Come to the priests who are Levites or to the judge [in office] at that time. Inquire, and they will give you the verdict. ¹⁰Do all the actions of the verdict which they tell you from that place which Yahweh chooses. Be careful to do everything that they teach you. ¹¹You are to do everything just as the decisions of the law which they teach you, and the judgment which they tell you. Don't turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, neither to the right or to the left. ¹²The man who acts presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man is to die. Purge the evil from Israel. ¹³All the people must hear and fear, and not act presumptuously again.

¹⁴When you've come to the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, and possess it and live in it, and say, "I will appoint a king over me, like all the nations that are around me," ¹⁵surely set a king over yourselves whom Yahweh your God has chosen. Set one from among your brothers as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. ¹⁶Only he mustn't multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, in order to multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "Don't go back that way again." ¹⁷He must'nt multiply wives for himself, or else his heart would turn away. He must'nt greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

¹⁸When it comes about that he sits on the throne of his kingdom he is to write a copy of this law in a book, from [what is] before the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹It is to be with him, and he will read [from] it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; ²⁰that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, among Israel.

Section 2

Joel 2:28-3:21

26 verses

Joel Chapter 2

²⁸"Afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. ²⁹And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. ³⁰I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. ³¹The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. ³²All who call on the name of Yahweh will be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

Joel Chapter 3

¹"For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ²I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land, ³and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. ⁴"Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. ⁵Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, ⁶and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border. ⁷Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; ⁸and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it." ⁹Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. ¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.' ¹¹Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh. ¹²"Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations there. ¹³Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great." ¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision. ¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. ¹⁶Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. ¹⁷"So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more. ¹⁸In that day, the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim. ¹⁹Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. ²⁰But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. ²¹I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion."

Section 3

Song of Songs 5:9-6:13

21 verses

Song of Songs Chapter 5

⁹[Friends]
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest among women?
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
that you do so solemnly-order us?
¹⁰[Beloved]
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy.
The best among myriads.
¹¹His head is purest gold.
His hair is wavy and raven black.
¹²His eyes are doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted jewels.
¹³His cheeks are a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
His lips are lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
¹⁴His hands are rings of gold set with beryl.
His body is ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
¹⁵His legs are pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.
His appearance is [like] Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
¹⁶His mouth is sweetness;
yes, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Songs Chapter 6

¹[Friends]
Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
²[Beloved]
My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to pasture [his flock] in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
³I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
He browses among the lilies. ⁴You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
⁵Turn away your eyes from me,
for they have overcome me.
Your hair is a flock of goats,
that lie along the side of Gilead.
⁶Your teeth are a flock of ewes,
which have come up from the washing,
of which every one has twins;
not one is bereaved among them.
⁷Your temples are slices of pomegranate behind your veil. ⁸There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
and virgins without number.
⁹My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
She is her mother's only daughter.
She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.
The queens and the concubines [saw her], and they praised her. ¹⁰Who is she who looks out as the morning,
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
and awesome as an army with banners? ¹¹I went down into the nut tree grove,
to see the green plants of the valley,
to see whether the vine budded,
and the pomegranates were in flower.
¹²Without realizing it,
my desire set me with my royal people's chariots.
¹³[Friends]
Return, return, Shulammite!
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
[Lover]
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?

Section 4

2 Peter 3

18 verses

2 Peter Chapter 3

¹This is now, dear-ones, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you ²that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the ambassadors of the Lord and Savior: ³knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts ⁴and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." ⁵For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God, ⁶by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished. ⁷But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

⁸But don't forget this one thing, dear-ones, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the work that is in it will be burned up. ¹¹So, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, ¹²looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? ¹³But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

¹⁴So, dear-ones, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight. ¹⁵Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; ¹⁶as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷So you, dear-ones, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus AnointedOne. To him be the glory both now and forever. Absolutely.

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