Professor Horner’s Reading Plan

Read through the Bible in one year by reading 10 chapters a day from 10 different sections of the Bible using the Professor Grant Horner Bible reading plan.

Today, we are reading Mark 7; Genesis 35; 2 Corinthians 3; 2 Peter 3; Job 35; Psalms 35; Proverbs 4; Judges 11; Isaiah 35; Acts 7.

Mark 7

1	Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2	And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3	For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4	And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.
5	Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6	He answered and said unto them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7	Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8	For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9	And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10	For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11	But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12	And ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother;
13	Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14	And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15	There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16	If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17	And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18	And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19	Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20	And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21	For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22	Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23	All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
24	And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into a house, and would have no man know it, but he could not be hid.
25	For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26	The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27	But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28	And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
29	And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30	And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
31	And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32	And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
33	And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
34	And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35	And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
36	And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
37	And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

Genesis 35

1	And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2	Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3	And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
4	And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5	And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6	So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
7	And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8	But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
9	And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
10	And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11	And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12	And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13	And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14	And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15	And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
16	And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
17	And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
18	And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
19	And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20	And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
21	And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22	And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23	The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24	The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
25	And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26	And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
27	And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28	And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.
29	And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

2 Corinthians 3

1	Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2	Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3	Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4	And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5	Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6	Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7	But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8	How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9	For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10	For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11	For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12	Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13	And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14	But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
15	But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
16	Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
17	Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18	But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Peter 3

1	This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2	That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
3	Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4	And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5	For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6	Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
7	But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8	But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9	The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10	But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11	Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12	Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13	Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14	Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15	And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16	As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17	Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18	But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.

Job 35

1	Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2	Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3	For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4	I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5	Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6	If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7	If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8	Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9	By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10	But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11	Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12	There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13	Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14	Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15	But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16	Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Psalms 35

1	A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
2	Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3	Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4	Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5	Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6	Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7	For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8	Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9	And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
10	All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11	False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12	They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13	But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14	I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15	But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16	With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17	Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18	I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
19	Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20	For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21	Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22	This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
23	Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24	Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
25	Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26	Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
27	Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28	And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

Proverbs 4

1	Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2	For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3	For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4	He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5	Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6	Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
7	Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
8	Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
9	She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
10	Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
11	I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
12	When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13	Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14	Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15	Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16	For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17	For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18	But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19	The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20	My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21	Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22	For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23	Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24	Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25	Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26	Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27	Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Judges 11

1	Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begot Jephthah.
2	And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3	Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
4	And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5	And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
6	And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
7	And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
8	And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
9	And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
10	And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
11	Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
12	And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
13	And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
14	And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
15	And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
16	But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17	Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18	Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
19	And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
20	But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21	And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22	And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23	So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
24	Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
25	And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
26	While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
27	Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
28	Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29	Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30	And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31	Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
32	So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
33	And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34	And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35	And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
36	And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
37	And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38	And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
39	And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40	That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Isaiah 35

1	The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2	It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
3	Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4	Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.
5	Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6	Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7	And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8	And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9	No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10	And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Acts 7

1	Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2	And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3	And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
4	Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5	And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6	And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
7	And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
8	And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
9	And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10	And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11	Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12	But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13	And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14	Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15	So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16	And were carried over into Shechem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.
17	But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18	Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19	The same dealt subtlely with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
20	In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
21	And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22	And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23	And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24	And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25	For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26	And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27	But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28	Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
29	Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
30	And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31	When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32	Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33	Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34	I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35	This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36	He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37	This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38	This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39	To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40	Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
41	And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42	Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43	Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44	Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45	Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46	Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47	But Solomon built him a house.
48	Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
49	Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
50	Hath not my hand made all these things?
51	Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52	Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53	Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54	When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55	But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56	And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57	Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58	And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59	And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60	And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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