The Bible Reading Plan

Leviticus Chapter 11

³⁹"'If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. ⁴⁰He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

⁴¹"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. ⁴²Don't eat whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, for they are an abomination. ⁴³Don't make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. Don't make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. ⁴⁴For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. Don't defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. ⁴⁵For I am Yahweh who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God. Therefore be holy, for I am holy.

⁴⁶"'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, ⁴⁷to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

Isaiah Chapter 19

¹⁹In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. ²⁰It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. ²¹Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it. ²²Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

²³In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

²⁴In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; ²⁵because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

Isaiah Chapter 20

¹In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; ²at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot. ³Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, ⁴so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ⁵They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. ⁶The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

Isaiah Chapter 21

¹The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. ²A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing. ³Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see. ⁴My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. ⁵They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, anoint the shield! ⁶For LordOfMine said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. ⁷When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." ⁸He cried like a lion: "LordOfMine, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. ⁹Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

¹⁰You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!"I have declared to you what I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel.

¹¹The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" ¹²The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

¹³The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. ¹⁴They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. ¹⁵For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. ¹⁶For LordOfMine said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, ¹⁷and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

Job Chapter 36

¹³"But those who are godless in heart store anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them. ¹⁴They die in youth. Their life [perishes among the] cult-prostitutes. ¹⁵He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression. ¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide-place, where there is no restriction. What is set on your table would be full of abundance.

¹⁷"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you. ¹⁸Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. ¹⁹Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? ²⁰Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. ²¹Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. ²²Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? ²³Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

²⁴"Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung. ²⁵All men have looked on it. Man sees it from afar. ²⁶Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. ²⁷For he draws up the drops of water,
which distill in rain from his mist,
²⁸Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. ²⁹Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion? ³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. ³²He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. ³³Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

Job Chapter 37

¹"Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. ²Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth. ³He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. ⁴After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard. ⁵God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend. ⁶For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. ⁷He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it. ⁸Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. ⁹Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north. ¹⁰By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen. ¹¹Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. ¹²It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, ¹³Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Acts Chapter 9

²⁶When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. ²⁷But Barnabas took him and brought him to the ambassadors, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. ²⁸He was with them entering into Jerusalem, ²⁹preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him. ³⁰When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

³¹So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of ForeverOne and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

³²As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. ³³There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years because he was paralyzed. ³⁴Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus AnointedOne heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose. ³⁵All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

³⁶Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good actions and acts of mercy which she did. ³⁷In those days, she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. ³⁸As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. ³⁹Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought [him] into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and [other] garments which Dorcas had made while [she was with them]. ⁴⁰Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹He gave her his hand and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. ⁴²This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. ⁴³He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.