The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for July 4:

First, Leviticus Chapter 11 verses 34 to 47. Follow that by reading Isaiah Chapter 19 verse 18 to Chapter 21 verse 0. The third part is from Job Chapter 36 verse 16 to Chapter 37 verse 13; and lastly Acts Chapter 9 verses 23 to 43

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

Leviticus 11:34-47

14 verses

Leviticus Chapter 11

34All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

39"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

41"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

44For I am ForeverOne your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

45For I am ForeverOne who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

46"'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

Section 2

Isaiah 19:18-21:0

31 verses

Isaiah Chapter 19

18In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to ForeverOne of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction." 19In that day, there will be an altar to ForeverOne in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to ForeverOne at its border.

20It will be for a sign and for a witness to ForeverOne of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to ForeverOne because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

21ForeverOne will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know ForeverOne in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to ForeverOne, and will perform it.

22ForeverOne will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to ForeverOne, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

23In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

24In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; 25because ForeverOne of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

Isaiah Chapter 20

1In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2at that time ForeverOne spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

3ForeverOne said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, 4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

5They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

6The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

Isaiah Chapter 21

1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.

3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, anoint the shield!

6For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." 8He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from ForeverOne of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" 12The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again." 13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

16For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, 17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for ForeverOne, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

Section 3

Job 36:16-37:13

31 verses

Job Chapter 36

16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

18Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

20Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

21Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?' 24"Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

25All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

26Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

33Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

Job Chapter 37

1"Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

2Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.

3He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

4After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.

5God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.

6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

8Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

9Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, 13Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Section 4

Acts 9:23-43

21 verses

Acts Chapter 9

23When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him, 24but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him, 25but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

26When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

27But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

28He was with them entering into Jerusalem, 29preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

31So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

32As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

33There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

34Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus AnointedOne heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose.

35All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

36Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good actions and acts of mercy which she did.

37In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

38As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

40Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

41He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

42This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

43He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

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