M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

34 And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,

² and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;

³ and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.

⁴ And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

⁵ And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.

⁶ And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;

⁷ and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob -- and so it is not done.

⁸ And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,

⁹ and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

¹⁰ and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.'

¹¹ And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;

¹² multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

¹³ And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),

¹⁴ and say unto them, `We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it [is] a reproach to us.

¹⁵ `Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

¹⁶ then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

¹⁷ and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'

¹⁸ And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;

¹⁹ and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father.

²⁰ And Hamor cometh -- Shechem his son also -- unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,

²¹ `These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land, lo, [is] wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

²² `Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;

²³ their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

²⁴ And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

²⁵ And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;

²⁶ and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out.

²⁷ Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;

²⁸ their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken;

²⁹ and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that [is] in the house.

³⁰ And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'

³¹ And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'

5 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes,

² and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

³ who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

⁴ because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

⁵ and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.

⁶ And, having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed before him,

⁷ and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

⁸ (for he said to him, `Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,')

⁹ and he was questioning him, `What [is] thy name?' and he answered, saying, `Legion [is] my name, because we are many;'

¹⁰ and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.

¹¹ And there was there, near the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding,

¹² and all the demons did call upon him, saying, `Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

¹³ and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea -- and they were about two thousand -- and they were choked in the sea.

¹⁴ And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;

¹⁵ and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;

¹⁶ and those having seen [it], declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

¹⁷ and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

¹⁸ And he having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on him that he may be with him,

¹⁹ and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own [friends], and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

²⁰ and he went away, and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus did to him, and all were wondering.

²¹ And Jesus having passed over in the boat again to the other side, there was gathered a great multitude to him, and he was near the sea,

²² and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,

²³ and he was calling upon him much, saying -- `My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her [thy] hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

²⁴ and he went away with him. And there was following him a great multitude, and they were thronging him,

²⁵ and a certain woman, having an issue of blood twelve years,

²⁶ and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse,

²⁷ having heard about Jesus, having come in the multitude behind, she touched his garment,

²⁸ for she said -- `If even his garments I may touch, I shall be saved;'

²⁹ and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.

³⁰ And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, `Who did touch my garments?'

³¹ and his disciples said to him, `Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and thou sayest, `Who did touch me!'

³² And he was looking round to see her who did this,

³³ and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,

³⁴ and he said to her, `Daughter, thy faith hath saved thee; go away in peace, and be whole from thy plague.'

³⁵ As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's [house, certain], saying -- `Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?'

³⁶ And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.'

³⁷ And he did not suffer any one to follow with him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James;

³⁸ and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;

³⁹ and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

⁴⁰ and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,

⁴¹ and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, `Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, `Damsel (I say to thee), arise.'

⁴² And immediately the damsel arose, and was walking, for she was twelve years [old]; and they were amazed with a great amazement,

⁴³ and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.

1 A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

² And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,

³ and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.

⁴ And his sons have gone and made a banquet -- the house of each [in] his day -- and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

⁶ And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence comest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.'

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

⁹ And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God?

¹⁰ Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?

¹¹ The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

¹² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath [is] in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.

¹³ And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

¹⁴ And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

¹⁵ and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'

¹⁶ While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'

¹⁷ While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'

¹⁸ While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'

²⁰ And Job riseth, and rendeth his robe, and shaveth his head, and falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

²² In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.

5 Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only [so], but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

⁶ For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

⁷ for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

⁸ and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

⁹ much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

¹⁰ for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

¹¹ And not only [so], but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

¹² because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

¹³ for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

¹⁴ but the death did reign from Adam till Moses, even upon those not having sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is coming.

¹⁵ But, not as the offence so also [is] the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;

¹⁶ and not as through one who did sin [is] the free gift, for the judgment indeed [is] of one to condemnation, but the gift [is] of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,'

¹⁷ for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ So, then, as through one offence to all men [it is] to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' [it is] to all men to justification of life;

¹⁹ for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.