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Daily Readings for April 25
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Deuteronomy 10
1.At that time Yahweh said to me, "Cut two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. 2.I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark." 3.So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 4.He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me. 5.I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me. 6.(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place. 7.From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8.At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. 9.Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.) 10.I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you. 11.Yahweh said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them."
12.Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13.to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? 14.Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. 15.Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. 16.Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. 17.For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward. 18.He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. 19.Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 20.You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. 21.He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. 22.Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Deuteronomy 11
1.Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. 2.Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3.and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4.and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea6 to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; 5.and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 6.and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: 7.but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did. 8.Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; 9.and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10.For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11.but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky, 12.a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. 13.It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14.that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. 15.I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16.Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17.and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. 18.Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 19.You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20.You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; 21.that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. 22.For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him; 23.then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24.Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border. 25.No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you. 26.Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27.the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day; 28.and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. 29.It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30.Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 31.For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32.You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
Ecclesiastes 4
1.Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2.Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive. 3.Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. 4.Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
5.The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself. 6.Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
7.Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. 8.There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
9.Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up. 11.Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? 12.If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13.Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. 14.For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor. 15.I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him. 16.There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Acts 1
1.The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, 2.until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3.To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom. 4.Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. 5.For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
6.Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
7.He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. 8.But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
9.When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10.While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, 11.who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
12.Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. 13.When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14.All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
15.In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said, 16."Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus. 17.For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry. 18.Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out. 19.It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field of blood.' 20.For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;'1
and, 'Let another take his office.'2
21."Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22.beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."
23.They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. 24.They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen 25.to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place." 26.They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.