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Daily Readings for March 21
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Numbers 2
1.Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2."The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it."
3.Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 4.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
5.Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar. 6.His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
7.The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon. 8.His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
9.All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
10."On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. 11.His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
12."Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 13.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
14."The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
16."All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
17."Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
18."On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
20."Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
22."The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. 23.His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
24."All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
25."On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
27."Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran. 28.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
29."The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. 30.His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
31."All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."
32.These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 33.But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
34.Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
Psalm 145
1.I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. 2.Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever. 3.Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable. 4.One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. 5.Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate. 6.Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness. 7.They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. 8.Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. 9.Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works. 10.All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you. 11.They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power; 12.to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. 13.Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.49 14.Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down. 15.The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16.You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17.Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. 18.Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19.He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. 20.Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. 21.My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
Psalm 146
1.Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul. 2.While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 3.Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help. 4.His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. 5.Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God: 6.who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; 7.who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners. 8.Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous. 9.Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. 10.Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
Psalm 147
1.Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. 2.Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. 3.He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. 4.He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names. 5.Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite. 6.Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground. 7.Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, 8.who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. 9.He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call. 10.He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. 11.Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness. 12.Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! 13.For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. 14.He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat. 15.He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly. 16.He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes. 17.He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold? 18.He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19.He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. 20.He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Luke 12
1.Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2.But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known. 3.Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
4."I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5.But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.29 Yes, I tell you, fear him.
6."Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins30? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 7.But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
8."I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; 9.but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God. 10.Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 11.When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; 12.for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."
13.One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
14.But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" 15.He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
16.He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. 17.He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 18.He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19.I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
20."But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?' 21.So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
22.He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. 23.Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 24.Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! 25.Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? 26.If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? 27.Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28.But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? 29.Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. 30.For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. 31.But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. 32.Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. 33.Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. 34.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35."Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. 36.Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. 37.Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. 38.They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. 39.But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40.Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
41.Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
42.The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? 43.Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. 44.Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. 45.But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, 46.then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. 47.That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, 48.but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
49."I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 50.But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! 51.Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 52.For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53.They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."31
54.He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens. 55.When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens. 56.You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time? 57.Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? 58.For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. 59.I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.32"