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Daily Readings for February 15
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Exodus 26
1."Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them. 2.The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure. 3.Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4.You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. 5.You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another. 6.You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.
7."You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make them eleven curtains. 8.The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. 9.You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. 10.You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. 11.You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12.The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13.The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14.You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
15."You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. 16.Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board. 17.There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18.You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 19.You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20.For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 21.and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22.For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards. 23.You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part. 24.They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 25.There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26."You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27.and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward. 28.The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end. 29.You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold. 30.You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
31."You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made. 32.You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. 33.You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. 34.You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35.You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
36."You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. 37.You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
Psalm 79
1.God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. 2.They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. 3.Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. 4.We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. 5.How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? 6.Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name; 7.For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. 8.Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. 9.Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. 10.Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out. 11.Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. 12.Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. 13.So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
Psalm 80
1.Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth. 2.Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! 3.Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4.Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? 5.You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. 6.You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves. 7.Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. 8.You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. 9.You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. 10.The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars. 11.It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River. 12.Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? 13.The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it. 14.Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, 15.the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. 16.It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke. 17.Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. 18.So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. 19.Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Mark 11
1.When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage29 and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 2.and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. 3.If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
4.They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. 5.Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?" 6.They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
7.They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. 8.Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. 9.Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna30! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!31 10.Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
11.Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
12.The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13.Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14.Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.
15.They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves. 16.He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 17.He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?'32 But you have made it a den of robbers!"33
18.The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
19.When evening came, he went out of the city. 20.As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. 21.Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."
22.Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. 23.For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. 24.Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. 25.Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. 26.But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions."
27.They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him, 28.and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
29.Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 30.The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."
31.They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 32.If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. 33.They answered Jesus, "We don't know."
Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."