M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

8 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh: and thou hast said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Send My people away, and they serve Me;

² and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;

³ and the River hath teemed [with] frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;

⁴ yea, on thee, and on thy people, and on all thy servants do the frogs go up.'

⁵ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand, with thy rod, against the streams, against the rivers, and against the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.'

⁶ And Aaron stretcheth out his hand against the waters of Egypt, and the frog cometh up, and covereth the land of Egypt;

⁷ and the scribes do so with their flashings, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.

⁸ And Pharaoh calleth for Moses and for Aaron, and saith, `Make supplication unto Jehovah, that he turn aside the frogs from me, and from my people, and I send the people away, and they sacrifice to Jehovah.'

⁹ And Moses saith to Pharaoh, `Beautify thyself over me; when do I make supplication for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cut off the frogs from thee and from thy houses -- only in the River they do remain?'

¹⁰ and he saith, `To-morrow.' And he saith, According to thy word [it is], so that thou knowest that there is none like Jehovah our God,

¹¹ and the frogs have turned aside from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; only in the River they do remain.'

¹² And Moses -- Aaron also -- goeth out from Pharaoh, and Moses crieth unto Jehovah, concerning the matter of the frogs which He hath set on Pharaoh;

¹³ and Jehovah doth according to the word of Moses, and the frogs die out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields,

¹⁴ and they heap them up together, and the land stinketh.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh seeth that there hath been a respite, and he hath hardened his heart, and hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁶ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, and it hath become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'

¹⁷ And they do so, and Aaron stretcheth out his hand with his rod, and smiteth the dust of the land, and the gnats are on man and on beast; all the dust of the land hath been gnats in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ And the scribes do so with their flashings, to bring out the gnats, and they have not been able, and the gnats are on man and on beast;

¹⁹ and the scribes say unto Pharaoh, `It [is] the finger of God;' and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

²⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Rise early in the morning, and station thyself before Pharaoh, lo, he is going out to the waters, and thou hast said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Send My people away, and they serve Me;

²¹ for, if thou art not sending My people away, lo, I am sending against thee, and against thy servants, and against thy people, and against thy houses, the beetle, and the houses of the Egyptians have been full of the beetle, and also the ground on which they are.

²² `And I have separated in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people are staying, that the beetle is not there, so that thou knowest that I [am] Jehovah in the midst of the land,

²³ and I have put a division between My people and thy people: to-morrow is this sign.'

²⁴ And Jehovah doth so, and the grievous beetle entereth the house of Pharaoh, and the house of his servants, and in all the land of Egypt the land is corrupted from the presence of the beetle.

²⁵ And Pharaoh calleth unto Moses and to Aaron, and saith, `Go, sacrifice to your God in the land;'

²⁶ and Moses saith, `Not right to do so, for the abomination of the Egyptians we do sacrifice to Jehovah our God; lo, we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes -- and they do not stone us!

²⁷ A journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'

²⁸ And Pharaoh saith, `I send you away, and ye have sacrificed to Jehovah your God in the wilderness, only go not very far off; make ye supplication for me;'

²⁹ and Moses saith, `Lo, I am going out from thee, and have made supplication unto Jehovah, and the beetle hath turned aside from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people -- to-morrow, only let not Pharaoh add to deceive -- in not sending the people away to sacrifice to Jehovah.'

³⁰ And Moses goeth out from Pharaoh, and maketh supplication unto Jehovah,

³¹ and Jehovah doth according to the word of Moses, and turneth aside the beetle from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people -- there hath not been left one;

³² and Pharaoh hardeneth his heart also at this time, and hath not sent the people away.

11 And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

² And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;

³ our appointed bread be giving us daily;

⁴ and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

⁵ And he said unto them, `Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶ seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him,

⁷ and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

⁸ `I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

⁹ and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

¹¹ `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

¹² and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

¹⁴ And he was casting forth a demon, and it was dumb, and it came to pass, the demon having gone forth, the dumb man spake, and the multitudes wondered,

¹⁵ and certain of them said, `By Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons, he doth cast forth the demons;'

¹⁶ and others, tempting, a sign out of heaven from him were asking.

¹⁷ And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

¹⁸ and if also the Adversary against himself was divided, how shall his kingdom be made to stand? for ye say, by Beelzeboul is my casting forth the demons.

¹⁹ `But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons -- your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;

²⁰ but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.

²¹ `When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

²² but when the stronger than he, having come upon [him], may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

²³ he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.

²⁴ `When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

²⁵ and having come, it findeth [it] swept and adorned;

²⁶ then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

²⁷ And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!'

²⁹ And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

³⁰ for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

³¹ `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!

³² `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!

³³ `And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put [it] in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

³⁴ `The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

³⁵ take heed, then, lest the light that [is] in thee be darkness;

³⁶ if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.'

³⁷ And in [his] speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

³⁸ and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

⁴⁰ unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

⁴¹ But what ye have give ye [as] alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

⁴² `But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

⁴³ `Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

⁴⁴ `Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

⁴⁶ and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

⁴⁷ `Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

⁴⁹ because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

⁵² `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

25 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

² The rule and fear [are] with Him, Making peace in His high places.

³ Is their [any] number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light?

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

⁵ Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

⁶ How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!

26 And Job answereth and saith: --

² What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!

³ What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

⁴ With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

⁵ The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.

⁶ Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

⁷ Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

⁸ Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹ Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

¹⁰ A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

¹¹ Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

¹² By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.

¹³ By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴ Lo, these [are] the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

12 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

² ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

³ wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus [is] anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus [is] Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

⁴ And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

⁵ and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;

⁶ and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

⁷ And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

⁸ for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

⁹ and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;

¹⁰ and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

¹¹ and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

¹² For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,

¹³ for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

¹⁴ for also the body is not one member, but many;

¹⁵ if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

¹⁶ and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

¹⁸ and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

¹⁹ and if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰ and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;

²¹ and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

²² But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

²³ and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

²⁴ and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

²⁵ that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

²⁶ and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;

²⁷ and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²⁸ And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

²⁹ [are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all powers?

³⁰ have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹ and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you: