The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for February 11:

First, from Genesis Chapter 26 verse 26 to Chapter 27 verse 10. Follow that by reading from Judges Chapter 14 verse 5 to Chapter 15 verse 8. The third part is 1 Chronicles Chapter 24 verses 7 to 31; and lastly Matthew Chapter 26 verses 1 to 25

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!

For certain interesting words:

Section 1

Genesis 26:26-27:10

20 verses

Genesis Chapter 26

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?" 28They said, "We saw plainly that ForeverOne was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of ForeverOne." 30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water." 33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

35They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

Genesis Chapter 27

1It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am." 2He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.

3Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

4Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." 5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before ForeverOne before my death.' 8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

9Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

10You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

Section 2

Judges 14:5-15:8

24 verses

Judges Chapter 14

5Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.

6The Spirit of ForeverOne came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

7He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

8After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

10His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

11It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

12Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; 13but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." They said to him, "Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it." 14He said to them, "Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness." They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

15It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not [so]?" 16Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me, and don't love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me." He said to her, "Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?" 17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle." 19The Spirit of ForeverOne came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

20But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Judges Chapter 15

1But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

2Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead." 3Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them." 4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

5When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

6Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

7Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." 8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Section 3

1 Chronicles 24:7-31

25 verses

1 Chronicles Chapter 24

7Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, 8the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 9the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, 10the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, 11the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, 12the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, 13the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 14the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, 15the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, 16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, 17the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, 18the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.

19This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of ForeverOne according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as ForeverOne, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

20Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

21Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.

22Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

23The sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah [the chief], Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

24The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

25The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

26The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

27The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

28Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

29Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.

30The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.

31These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

Section 4

Matthew 26:1-25

25 verses

Matthew Chapter 26

1When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, 2"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." 3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

5But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people." 6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

8But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

9For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor." 10However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

11For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.

12For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

13Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her." 14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?" So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

16From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

17Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 18He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'" 19The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

20Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

21As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." 22They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn't me, is it, Lord?" 23He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

24The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." 25Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it."

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