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Daily Readings for April 10
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Numbers 28
1.Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2."Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season.' 3.You shall tell them, 'This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 4.You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening; 5.with the tenth part of an ephah15 of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 6.It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 7.Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place. 8.The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
9."'On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it: 10.this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.
11."'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 12.and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13.and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 14.Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. 15.One male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.
16."'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's Passover. 17.On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18.In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work; 19.but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 20.and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: you shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram. 21.You shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 22.and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. 23.You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24.In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. 25.On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work.
26."'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work; 27.but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 28.and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29.a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 30.one male goat, to make atonement for you. 31.Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.
Proverbs 20
1.Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise. 2.The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. 3.It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling. 4.The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. 5.Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. 6.Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? 7.A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. 8.A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes. 9.Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?" 10.Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh. 11.Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right. 12.The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them. 13.Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. 14."It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. 15.There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. 16.Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. 17.Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel. 18.Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war! 19.He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips. 20.Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. 21.An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end. 22.Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you. 23.Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing. 24.A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way? 25.It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows. 26.A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them. 27.The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts. 28.Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love. 29.The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair. 30.Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
John 1
1.In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2.The same was in the beginning with God. 3.All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. 4.In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome1 it. 6.There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7.The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 8.He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. 9.The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
10.He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. 11.He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. 12.But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 13.who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14.The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15.John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 16.From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 17.For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 18.No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,2 who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
19.This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
20.He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."
21.They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?"
He said, "I am not."
"Are you the prophet?"
He answered, "No."
22.They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
23.He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'[3] as Isaiah the prophet said."
24.The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. 25.They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
26.John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know. 27.He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." 28.These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29.The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30.This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' 31.I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." 32.John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. 33.I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' 34.I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."
35.Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, 36.and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" 37.The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 38.Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"
They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
39.He said to them, "Come, and see."
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.4 40.One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41.He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ5). 42.He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). 43.On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." 44.Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 45.Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
46.Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip said to him, "Come and see."
47.Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
48.Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?"
49.Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
50.Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" 51.He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."