Daily Readings for March 4
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Leviticus 9

 

1.It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; 2.and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh. 3.You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering; 4.and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.'"

5.They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh. 6.Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you." 7.Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."

8.So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9.The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar: 10.but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses. 11.The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. 12.He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar. 13.They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar. 14.He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar. 15.He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. 16.He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. 17.He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning. 18.He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar, 19.and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver: 20.and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: 21.and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded. 22.Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

23.Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people. 24.There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

 

Leviticus 10

 

1.Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. 2.And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

3.Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'"

Aaron held his peace. 4.Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp." 5.So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.

6.Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled. 7.You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.

8.Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying, 9."Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: 10.and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 11.and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."

12.Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 13.and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded. 14.The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15.The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded."

16.Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, 17."Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh? 18.Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."

19.Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"

20.When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.

 

Psalm 108

 

1.My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul. 2.Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. 3.I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples. 4.For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 5.Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. 6.That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. 7.God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. 8.Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter. 9.Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia." 10.Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? 11.Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies. 12.Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. 13.Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

 

Psalm 109

 

1.God of my praise, don't remain silent, 2.for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3.They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 4.In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. 5.They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6.Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7.When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. 8.Let his days be few. Let another take his office. 9.Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10.Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11.Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12.Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13.Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14.Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15.Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth; 16.because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. 17.Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him. 18.He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. 19.Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him. 20.This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

21.But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord,³⁹ for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me; 22.for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. 23.I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. 24.My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. 25.I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. 26.Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness; 27.that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it. 28.They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. 29.Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. 30.I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude. 31.For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

 

2Corinthians 1

 

1.Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 2.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4.who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5.For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. 6.But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7.Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. 8.For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,¹ concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. 9.Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10.who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; 11.you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf. 12.For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. 13.For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end; 14.as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. 15.In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit; 16.and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. 17.When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" 18.But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no." 19.For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes." 20.For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

21.Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 22.who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. 23.But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you. 24.Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

 

2Corinthians 2

 

1.But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 2.For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me? 3.And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you. 4.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. 5.But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. 6.Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; 7.so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. 8.Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. 9.For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 10.Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11.that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12.Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, 13.I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia. 14.Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. 15.For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16.to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17.For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

 

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