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March 5 - Bible-in-a-Year
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Leviticus 9-10
Chapter 9
Aaron Offers Sacrifices
1 Now it came about (C1)on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;2 and he said to Aaron, "(C1)Take for yourself a calf, a bull, as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, both without defect, and offer them before the LORD.3 "Then you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without defect, as a burnt offering,4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today (C1)the LORD will appear to you.'"5 So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before the LORD.6 And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded you to do, so that (C1)the glory of the LORD may appear to you."7 Moses then said to Aaron, "Come near to the altar and (F1)(C1)offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, so that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering (F2)for the people, so that you may make atonement for them, just as the LORD has commanded."
8 (C1)So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.9 (C1)Aaron's sons then presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood and (C2)put some on the horns of the altar, and poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.10 The fat and the kidneys and the (F1)lobe of the liver of the sin offering he then offered up in smoke on the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.11 (C1)The flesh and the hide, however, he burned with fire outside the camp.
12 Then he slaughtered the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.13 They brought the burnt offering to him in (F1)pieces, with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.14 He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.
15 Then he presented the people's offering, and took the (C1)goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.16 He also presented the burnt offering, and (F1)offered it according to (C1)the ordinance.17 Next he presented (C1)the grain offering, and filled his (F1)hand with some of it and offered it up in smoke on the altar, (C2)besides the burnt offering of the morning.
18 Then (C1)he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people; and Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.19 As for the portions of fat from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, the fat (C1)covering, the kidneys, and the (F1)lobe of the liver,20 they now placed the portions of fat on the breasts; and he offered (F1)them up in smoke on the altar.21 But (C1)the breasts and the right thigh Aaron (F1)presented as a wave offering before the LORD, just as Moses had commanded.
22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and (C1)blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, (C1)the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.24 (C1)Then fire went out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell (F1)face downward.
Chapter 10
The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
1 Now (C1)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective (C2)firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on (F1)the fire and offered (F2)strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.2 (C1)And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who (C1)come near Me I (F1)(C2)will be treated as holy,
And before all the people I will (C3)be honored.'"
So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.
4 Moses called also to (C1)Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to an area outside of the camp."5 So they came forward and carried them, still in their (C1)tunics, to an area outside the camp, just as Moses had said.6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "(C1)Do not (F1)uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you do not die and He does not (C2)become wrathful against all the congregation. But your (F2)kinsmen, the entire house of Israel, shall weep for the burning which the LORD has (F3)brought about.7 "You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for (C1)the LORD'S anointing oil is upon you." So they did according to the word of Moses.
8 The LORD then spoke to Aaron, saying,9 "(C1)Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you do not die—it is a permanent statute throughout your generations—10 and (C1)to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,11 and (C1)so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them through Moses."
12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, (C1)Eleazar and Ithamar, "(C2)Take the grain offering that is left over from the LORD'S offerings by fire and eat it as unleavened bread beside the altar, for it is most holy.13 "You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your allotted portion and your sons' allotted portion from the LORD'S offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded.14 "(C1)The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your allotted portion and your sons' allotted portion from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.15 "They shall bring (C1)the thigh offered by lifting up and the breast offered by waving, along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the LORD; so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just as the LORD has commanded."
16 But Moses searched carefully for the (C1)goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned! So he was angry with Aaron's surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,17 "Why (C1)did you not eat the sin offering at the (F1)holy place? For it is most holy, and (F2)He gave it to you to take away (C2)the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD.18 "Behold, (C1)since its blood had not been brought inside, into the sanctuary, you certainly should have (C2)eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded!"19 But Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, this very day they (C1)presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of the LORD?"20 When Moses heard that, it was good in his sight.
Proverbs 23
Chapter 23
On Life and Conduct
1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully (F1)what is before you,
2 And put a knife to your throat
If you are a (C1)person of great appetite.
3 Do not (C1)desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food.
4 (C1)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
(F1)(C2)Stop dwelling on it.
5 (F1)When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (C1)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
6 (C1)Do not eat the bread of (F1)a (C2)selfish person;
Or desire his delicacies;
7 For as he (F1)thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, "Eat and drink!"
But (C1)his heart is not with you.
8 You will (C1)vomit up (F1)the morsel you have eaten
And waste your (F2)compliments.
9 (C1)Do not speak (F1)to be heard by a fool,
For he will (C2)despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not move the ancient boundary
Or (C1)go into the fields of the fatherless,
11 For their (C1)Redeemer is strong;
(C2)He will plead their case against you.
12 Apply your heart to discipline,
And your ears to words of knowledge.
13 (C1)Do not withhold discipline from a child;
Though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14 You shall strike him with the rod
And (C1)rescue his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is (C1)wise,
My own heart also will be glad,
16 And my (F1)innermost being will rejoice
When your lips speak (C1)what is right.
17 (C1)Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But live in (F1)the (C2)fear of the LORD (F2)always.
18 Certainly there is a (F1)(C1)future,
And your (C2)hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and (C1)be wise,
And (C2)direct your heart in the way.
20 Do not be with (C1)heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with (C2)gluttonous eaters of meat;
21 For the (C1)heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And (C2)drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
22 (C1)Listen to your father, who fathered you,
And (C2)do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 (C1)Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And (C1)he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let your (C1)father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
26 (C1)Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes (F1)(C2)delight in my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a (C1)deep pit,
And a (F1)(C2)strange woman is a narrow well.
28 Certainly she (C1)lurks as a robber,
And increases the treacherous among mankind.
29 Who has (C1)woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has red eyes?
30 Those who (C1)linger long over wine,
Those who go to (F1)taste (C2)mixed wine.
31 Do not look at wine when it is red,
When it (F1)sparkles in the cup,
When it (C1)goes down smoothly;
32 In the end it (C1)bites like a snake
And stings like a (C2)viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things
And your (F1)mind will (C1)say perverse things.
34 And you will be like one who lies down in the (F1)middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a (F2)mast.
35 "They (C1)struck me, but I did not become (F1)ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When will I awake?
I will (C2)seek (F2)another drink."
Matthew 10:26-42
Chapter 10
26 "So do not (C1)fear them, (C2)for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.27 "(C1)What I tell you in the darkness, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim (C2)on the housetops.28 "And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather (C1)fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in (F1)(C2)hell.29 "(C1)Are two sparrows not sold for an (F1)assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.30 "But (C1)even the hairs of your head are all counted.31 "So do not fear; (C1)you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
32 "Therefore, (C1)everyone who (F1)confesses Me before people, I will also confess (F2)him before My Father who is in heaven.33 "But (C1)whoever denies Me before people, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
34 "(C1)Do not think that I came to (F1)bring peace on the earth; I did not come to (F1)bring peace, but a sword.35 "For I came to (C1)TURN A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;36 and (C1)A PERSON'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.
37 "(C1)The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.38 "And (C1)the one who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.39 "(C1)The one who has found his (F1)life will lose it, and the one who has lost his (F1)life on My account will find it.
The Reward for Service
40 "(C1)The one who (F1)receives you (F1)receives Me, and (C2)the one who (F1)receives Me (F1)receives Him who sent Me.41 "(C1)The one who (F1)receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and the one who (F1)receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person shall receive a righteous person's reward.42 "And (C1)whoever gives one of these (F1)little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."
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