The Bible Reading Plan

Numbers Chapter 23

¹Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams." ²Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

³Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps ForeverOne will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

⁴God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar." ⁵ForeverOne put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." ⁶He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

⁷He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

⁸How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom ForeverOne has not defied?

⁹For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!" ¹¹Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether." ¹²He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak what ForeverOne puts in my mouth?" ¹³Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there." ¹⁴He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

¹⁵He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [ForeverOne] over there." ¹⁶ForeverOne met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this." ¹⁷He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has ForeverOne spoken?" ¹⁸He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

²⁰Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

Jeremiah Chapter 52

¹²Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: ¹³and he burned the house of ForeverOne, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

¹⁴All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

¹⁵Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

¹⁶But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

¹⁷The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the house of ForeverOne and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of ForeverOne in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.

¹⁸The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

¹⁹The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls - what was of gold, in gold, and what was of silver, in silver, - the captain of the guard took away.

²⁰The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of ForeverOne. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

²¹As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encompassed it; and its thickness was four fingers: it was hollow.

²²A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

²³There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

²⁴The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: ²⁵and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

²⁶Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

²⁷The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

²⁸This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews; ²⁹in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; ³⁰in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

³¹In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison; ³²and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, ³³and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: ³⁴and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

Psalm 119

¹³⁷[TZADI] You are righteous, ForeverOne. Your judgments are upright.

¹³⁸You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

¹³⁹My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

¹⁴⁰Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

¹⁴¹I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.

¹⁴²Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

¹⁴⁴Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

¹⁴⁵[KOF] I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, ForeverOne! I will keep your statutes.

¹⁴⁶I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

¹⁴⁷I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

¹⁴⁸My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, ForeverOne, according to your ordinances.

¹⁵⁰They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

¹⁵¹You are near, ForeverOne. All your commandments are truth.

¹⁵²Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

¹⁵³[RESH] Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.

¹⁵⁴Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.

¹⁵⁶Great are your tender mercies, ForeverOne. Revive me according to your ordinances.

¹⁵⁷Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

¹⁵⁸I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, ForeverOne, according to your loving kindness.

¹⁶⁰All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

¹⁶¹[SHIN] Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

¹⁶²I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.

¹⁶³I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

¹⁶⁴Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

¹⁶⁵Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

¹⁶⁶I have hoped for your salvation, ForeverOne. I have done your commandments.

¹⁶⁷My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.

¹⁶⁹[TAV] Let my cry come before you, ForeverOne. Give me understanding according to your word.

¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

¹⁷¹Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

¹⁷²Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

¹⁷³Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

¹⁷⁴I have longed for your salvation, ForeverOne. Your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.

Galatians Chapter 5

¹For freedom AnointedOne has made us free; so stand firm and don't be entangled again with a yoke of slavery.

²Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, AnointedOne will profit you nothing.

³Yes, I testify again to everyone who receives circumcision that they are a debtor to do the whole law.

⁴You are alienated from AnointedOne, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

⁵For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

⁶For in AnointedOne Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

⁷You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

⁸This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

⁹A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

¹⁰I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

¹¹But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

¹²I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

¹³For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

¹⁶But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

¹⁸But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the actions of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, ²¹envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God's Kingdom.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

²⁴Those who belong to AnointedOne have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

²⁶Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.