The Bible Reading Plan

Genesis Chapter 33

¹Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

²He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

³He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

⁴Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

⁵He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." ⁶Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

⁷Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

⁸Esau said, "What do you mean by all this group which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord." ⁹Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let what you have be yours." ¹⁰Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my gift at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

¹¹Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

¹²Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you." ¹³Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

¹⁴Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir." ¹⁵Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord." ¹⁶So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

¹⁷Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

1 Samuel Chapter 6

¹⁰The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; ¹¹and they put the ark of ForeverOne on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

¹²The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

¹³They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

¹⁴The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to ForeverOne.

¹⁵The Levites took down the ark of ForeverOne, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to ForeverOne.

¹⁶When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

¹⁷These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to ForeverOne: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; ¹⁸and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, where they set down the ark of ForeverOne, [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

¹⁹He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of ForeverOne, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because ForeverOne had struck the people with a great slaughter.

²⁰The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before ForeverOne, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?" ²¹They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of ForeverOne; come down, and bring it up to yourselves."

1 Samuel Chapter 7

2 Chronicles Chapter 5

¹¹When the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions; ¹²also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;) ¹³when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking ForeverOne; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised ForeverOne, [saying], "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!" then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of ForeverOne, ¹⁴so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of ForeverOne filled the house of God.

2 Chronicles Chapter 6

¹Then Solomon said, "ForeverOne has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

²But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever." ³The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

⁴He said, "Blessed be ForeverOne, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, ⁵'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel: ⁶but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' ⁷Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

⁸But ForeverOne said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: ⁹nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.' ¹⁰"ForeverOne has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as ForeverOne promised, and have built the house for the name of ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

¹¹There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of ForeverOne, which he made with the children of Israel."

Mark Chapter 5

⁶When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, ⁷and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." ⁸For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" ⁹He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ¹⁰He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

¹¹Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

¹²All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them." ¹³At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁵They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

¹⁶Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

¹⁷They began to beg him to depart from their region.

¹⁸As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

¹⁹He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things ForeverOne has done for you, and how he had mercy on you." ²⁰He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

²¹When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

²²Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, fell at his feet, ²³and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live." ²⁴He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

²⁵A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, ²⁶and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, ²⁷having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

²⁸For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." ²⁹Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

³⁰Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"