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Daily Readings for February 14
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Exodus 24
1.He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. 2.Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
3.Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
4.Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5.He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh. 6.Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7.He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
8.Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
9.Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. 10.They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire21 stone, like the skies for clearness. 11.He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
12.Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
13.Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain. 14.He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
15.Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16.The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17.The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18.Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 25
1.Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2."Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering. 3.This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, 4.blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, 5.rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, 6.oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 7.onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. 8.Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9.According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
10."They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. 11.You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it. 12.You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13.You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 14.You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 15.The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it. 16.You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. 17.You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18.You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19.Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. 20.The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21.You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22.There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
23."You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height. 24.You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. 25.You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. 26.You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. 27.the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. 28.You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. 29.You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold. 30.You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
31."You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. 32.There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side; 33.three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; 34.and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; 35.and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 36.Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. 37.You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. 38.Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. 39.It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. 40.See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
Psalm 78
1.Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. 2.I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, 3.Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4.We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. 5.For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 6.that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, 7.that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, 8.and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 9.The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10.They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law. 11.They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them. 12.He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13.He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. 14.In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 15.He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 16.He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17.Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. 18.They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. 19.Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 20.Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?" 21.Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, 22.because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation. 23.Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. 24.He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. 25.Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. 26.He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. 27.He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas. 28.He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations. 29.So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. 30.They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, 31.when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. 32.For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works. 33.Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. 34.When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. 35.They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. 36.But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. 37.For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. 38.But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath. 39.He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again. 40.How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! 41.They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42.They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 43.how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, 44.he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. 45.He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46.He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. 47.He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. 48.He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49.He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. 50.He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, 51.and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 52.But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53.He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54.He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. 55.He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56.Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies; 57.but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58.For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. 59.When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel; 60.So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61.and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand. 62.He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. 63.Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. 64.Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep. 65.Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. 66.He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. 67.Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68.But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69.He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. 70.He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71.from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. 72.So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Mark 10
1.He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. 2.Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
3.He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
4.They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
5.But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 6.But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.25 7.For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 8.and the two will become one flesh,26 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9.What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
10.In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11.He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 12.If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
13.They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 14.But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15.Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." 16.He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
17.As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
18.Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God. 19.You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"27
20.He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."
21.Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
22.But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. 23.Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
24.The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! 25.It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
26.They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
27.Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
28.Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."
29.Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, 30.but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. 31.But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
32.They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. 33."Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. 34.They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."
35.James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
36.He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
37.They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
38.But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
39.They said to him, "We are able."
Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; 40.but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
41.When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
42.Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43.But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. 44.Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. 45.For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
46.They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. 47.When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 48.Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
49.Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him."
They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"
50.He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
51.Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"
The blind man said to him, "Rabboni,28 that I may see again."
52.Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.