The Bible Reading Plan

Genesis Chapter 2

⁸ForeverOne God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹Out of the ground ForeverOne God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.

¹¹The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; ¹²and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.

¹³The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ForeverOne God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

¹⁶ForeverOne God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; ¹⁷but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will really die." ¹⁸ForeverOne God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him." ¹⁹Out of the ground ForeverOne God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

²⁰The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

²¹ForeverOne God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

²²ForeverOne God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

²³The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man." ²⁴Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

²⁵The man and the woman were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Joshua Chapter 3

⁷ForeverOne said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

⁸You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'" ⁹Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of ForeverOne your God." ¹⁰Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

¹²Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

¹³It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of ForeverOne, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap." ¹⁴When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, ¹⁵and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), ¹⁶the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

¹⁷The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

Joshua Chapter 4

¹When all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, ForeverOne spoke to Joshua, saying, ²"Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, ³and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'" ⁴Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

⁵Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of ForeverOne your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; ⁶that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?' ⁷then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'" ⁸The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as ForeverOne spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

⁹Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

¹⁰For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that ForeverOne commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

¹¹When all the people had completely passed over, the ark of ForeverOne passed over with the priests, in the presence of the people.

¹²The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

¹³About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before ForeverOne to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

Ruth Chapter 2

¹³Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens." ¹⁴At meal time Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

¹⁵When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.

¹⁶Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don't rebuke her." ¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁸She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her what she had left after she was sufficed.

¹⁹Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz." ²⁰Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of ForeverOne, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen." ²¹Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me, 'You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'" ²²Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field." ²³So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Ruth Chapter 3

¹Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

²Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

³Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

⁴When he lies down you shall mark the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down; then he will tell you what you shall do." ⁵She said to her, "All that you say I will do."

Matthew Chapter 2

¹⁶Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

¹⁷Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, ¹⁸"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more." ¹⁹But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of ForeverOne appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, ²⁰"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are dead." ²¹He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

²²But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, ²³and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

Matthew Chapter 3

¹In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, ²"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" ³For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of ForeverOne ready! Make his paths straight!" ⁴Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

⁵Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

⁶They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

⁸So produce fruit worthy of repentance!

⁹Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

¹⁰"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree that doesn't produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

¹¹"I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

¹²His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." ¹³Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

¹⁴But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?" ¹⁵But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

¹⁶Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

¹⁷Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my dear Son, with whom I am well pleased."