Daily Readings for January 28

Daily Readings for January 28
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Genesis 46

1.Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 2.God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!"

He said, "Here I am."

3.He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 4.I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

5.Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6.They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him, 7.his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

8.These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9.The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10.The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 11.The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12.The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13.The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. 14.The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15.These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 16.The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17.The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18.These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19.The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20.To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 21.The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22.These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23.The son of Dan: Hushim. 24.The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25.These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. 26.All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six. 27.The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

28.He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29.Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30.Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

31.Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32.These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.' 33.It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?' 34.that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

Genesis 47

1.Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen." 2.From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. 3.Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"

They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." 4.They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

5.Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6.The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

7.Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8.Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

9.Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." 10.Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

11.Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12.Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

13.There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14.Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15.When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

16.Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."

17.They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. 18.When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 19.Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

20.So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. 21.As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. 22.Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. 23.Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24.It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

25.They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

26.Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

27.Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28.Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. 29.The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt, 30.but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place."

He said, "I will do as you have said."

31.He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.

Psalm 50

1.The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. 2.Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 3.Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. 4.He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: 5."Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." 6.The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. 7."Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 8.I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9.I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. 10.For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. 11.I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. 12.If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. 13.Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14.Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. 15.Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

16.But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 17.since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? 18.When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

19."You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. 20.You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. 21.You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

22."Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23.Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."

Romans 3

1.Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2.Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3.For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? 4.May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."[4]

5.But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6.May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? 7.For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8.Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned. 9.What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. 10.As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. 11.There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 12.They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."[5]

13."Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."[6]

"The poison of vipers is under their lips;"[7] 14."whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."[8]

15."Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16.Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17.The way of peace, they haven't known."[9]

18."There is no fear of God before their eyes."[10]

19.Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 20.Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21.But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; 22.even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, 23.for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24.being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 25.whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice¹¹, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26.to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

27.Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28.We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29.Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30.since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. 31.Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans 4

1.What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2.For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. 3.For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."[12] 4.Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. 5.But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 6.Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, 7."Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 8.Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."[13]

9.Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10.How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11.He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 12.He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. 13.For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14.For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 15.For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. 16.For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 17.As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."[14] This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. 18.Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."[15] 19.Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20.Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21.and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. 22.Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."[16] 23.Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 24.but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, 25.who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.