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February 9 - Bible-in-a-Year
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Exodus 1,2
Israel Oppressed in Egypt
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:(a)
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 The total number of Jacob's descendants[a] was 70;[b](b) Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.(c) 7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous(d) so that the land was filled with them.
8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.(e) 10 Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country."(f) 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.(g) They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities(h) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread[c] the Israelites. 13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly(i) 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.(j)
15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 "When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver.[d] If the child is a son, kill him, but if it's a daughter, she may live." 17 The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God(k) and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them;(l) they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this and let the boys live?"
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them."(m)
20 So God was good to the midwives,(n) and the people multiplied and became very numerous. 21 Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families.(o) 22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people: "You must throw every son born to the Hebrews[e] into the Nile, but let every daughter live."(p)
Moses' Birth and Adoption
1 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.(a) 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful,[a] she hid him for three months.(b) 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister(c) stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
5 Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew boys."
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?"
8 "Go," Pharaoh's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother. 9 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."[b]
Moses in Midian
11 Years later,[c] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people[d] and observed their forced labor.(d) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you attacking your neighbor?"[e]
14 "Who made you a leader and judge over us?" the man replied. "Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?"
Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known. 15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian,(e) and sat down by a well.(f)
16 Now the priest of Midian(g) had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18 When they returned to their father Reuel[f](h) he asked, "Why have you come back so quickly today?"
19 They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
20 "So where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner."
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah(i) to Moses in marriage. 22 She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, "I have been a foreigner(j) in a foreign land."[g]
23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out;(k) and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor. 24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered(l) His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(m) 25 God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.(n)
Psalms 40
Chapter 40
Psalm 40
Thanksgiving and a Cry for Help
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
1 I waited patiently for the
Lord
,
and He turned to me and heard my cry for help.(a)
2 He brought me up from a desolate[a] pit,
out of the muddy clay,(b)
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.(c)
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.(d)
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the
Lord
.(e)
4 How happy is the man
who has put his trust in the
Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!(f)
5
Lord
my God, You have done many things—
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.(g)
6 You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.[b]
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.(h)
7 Then I said, "See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.(i)
8 I delight to do Your will, my God;(j)
Your instruction lives within me."[c](k)
9 I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly;
see, I do not keep my mouth closed[d]—
as You know,
Lord
.(l)
10 I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;
I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;
I did not conceal Your constant love and truth
from the great assembly.(m)
11
Lord
, do not withhold Your compassion from me;
Your constant love and truth will always guard me.(n)
12 For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.(o)
13
Lord
, be pleased to deliver me;
hurry to help me,
Lord
.(p)
14 Let those who seek to take my life
be disgraced and confounded.
Let those who wish me harm
be driven back and humiliated.(q)
15 Let those who say to me, "Aha, aha!"
be horrified because of their shame.(r)
16 Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
let those who love Your salvation continually say,
"The
Lord
is great!"(s)
17 I am afflicted and needy;
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.(t)
Hebrews 6:13-20
Chapter 6
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself:
14
I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply you.
(h)[d]
15 And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham[e] obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute. 17 Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,(i) 18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.(j) 19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.(k) 20 Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner,(l) because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.(m)
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