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Daily Readings for March 28
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Numbers 10
1.Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2."Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. 3.When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4.If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. 5.When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. 6.When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7.But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
8."The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 9.When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
10."Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God."
11.It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12.The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. 13.They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
14.First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army. 15.Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar. 16.Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun. 17.The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward. 18.The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army. 19.Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon. 20.Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
21.The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
22.The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army. 23.Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh. 24.Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.
25.The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army. 26.Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher. 27.Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali. 28.Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
29.Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."
30.He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."
31.He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. 32.It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."
33.They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. 34.The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. 35.It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!" 36.When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."
Proverbs 6
1.My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; 2.You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. 3.Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. 4.Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. 5.Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6.Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; 7.which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8.provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. 9.How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? 10.A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11.so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
12.A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; 13.who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers; 14.in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. 15.Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
16.There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: 17.haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; 18.a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19.a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20.My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching. 21.Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. 22.When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. 23.For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, 24.to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. 25.Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. 26.For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. 27.Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? 28.Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? 29.So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. 30.Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry: 31.but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. 32.He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. 33.He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. 34.For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance. 35.He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
Luke 20
1.It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the 49priests and scribes came to him with the elders. 2.They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
3.He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: 4.the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
5.They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' 6.But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." 7.They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
8.Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
9.He began to tell the people this parable. "A 50man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. 10.At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. 11.He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 12.He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. 13.The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
14."But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' 15.They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16.He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others."
When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
17.But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'51 18.Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
19.The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 20.They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. 21.They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 22.Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
23.But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? 24.Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
They answered, "Caesar's."
25.He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
26.They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. 27.Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. 28.They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. 29.There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. 30.The second took her as wife, and he died childless. 31.The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. 32.Afterward the woman also died. 33.Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."
34.Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. 35.But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. 36.For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37.But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'52 38.Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
39.Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." 40.They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
41.He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son? 42.David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, 43.until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'53
44."David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
45.In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, 46."Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; 47.who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."