The Bible Reading Plan

Numbers Chapter 25

¹Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: ²for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

³Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of ForeverOne was kindled against Israel.

⁴ForeverOne said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to ForeverOne before the sun, that the fierce anger of ForeverOne may turn away from Israel." ⁵Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor." ⁶Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

⁷When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; ⁸and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

⁹Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰ForeverOne spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹"Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

¹²Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: ¹³and it shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'" ¹⁴Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.

¹⁵The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

¹⁶ForeverOne spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷"Harass the Midianites, and strike them; ¹⁸for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

Ezekiel Chapter 3

²⁰Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

²¹Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

²²The hand of ForeverOne was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.

²³Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of ForeverOne stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

²⁴Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house.

²⁵But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them: ²⁶and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

²⁷But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel Chapter 4

¹You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: ²and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and build a siege ramp against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

³Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

⁵For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

⁷You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

⁸Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

⁹Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

¹⁰Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

¹¹You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

¹²You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

¹³ForeverOne said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

¹⁴Then I said, Ah LordOfMine ForeverOne! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

¹⁵Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.

¹⁶Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: ¹⁷that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Psalm 128

A Song of Ascents.

¹Blessed is everyone who fears ForeverOne, who walks in his ways.

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

⁴Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears ForeverOne.

⁵May ForeverOne bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, ²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

⁴ForeverOne is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; ⁷with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁸Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of ForeverOne be on you. We bless you in the name of ForeverOne."

Psalm 130

¹Out of the depths I have cried to you, ForeverOne.

²LordOfMine, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

³If you, EverOne, kept a record of sins, LordOfMine, who could stand?

⁴But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

⁵I wait for ForeverOne. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

⁶My soul longs for LordOfMine more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷Israel, hope in ForeverOne, for with ForeverOne there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

⁸He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Psalm 131

A Song of Ascents. By David.

¹ForeverOne, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

²Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

³Israel, hope in ForeverOne, from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalm 132

A Song of Ascents.

¹ForeverOne, remember David and all his affliction, ²how he swore to ForeverOne, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: ³"Surely I will not enter the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed; ⁴I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; ⁵until I find out a place for ForeverOne, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." ⁶Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar: ⁷"We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

⁸Arise, ForeverOne, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength.

⁹Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!" ¹⁰For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face of your anointed.

¹¹ForeverOne has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

¹²If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore." ¹³For ForeverOne has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

¹⁴"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

¹⁵I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁶Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

¹⁷There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent."

Ephesians Chapter 2

¹You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, ²in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; ³among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

⁴But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with the AnointedOne (by grace you have been saved), ⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in AnointedOne Jesus, ⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in AnointedOne Jesus; ⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹not of actions, that no one would boast.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in AnointedOne Jesus for good actions, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

¹¹So remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by what is called "circumcision" (in the flesh, made by hands), ¹²that you were at that time separate from the AnointedOne, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹³But now in AnointedOne Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of the AnointedOne.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke the barrier of hostility, ¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it.

¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, ²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, AnointedOne Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; ²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.