The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for January 12:

First, from Genesis Chapter 8 verse 15 to Chapter 9 verse 7. Follow that by reading from Joshua Chapter 11 verse 6 to Chapter 12 verse 6. The third part is from 1 Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 24 to Chapter 5 verse 3; and lastly Matthew Chapter 9 verses 9 to 31

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here’s the entire year’s plan as a list. Enjoy!

For certain interesting words:

Section 1

Genesis 8:15-9:7

15 verses

Genesis Chapter 8

15God spoke to Noah, saying, 16"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." 18Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

20Noah built an altar to ForeverOne, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21ForeverOne smelled the pleasant aroma. ForeverOne said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Genesis Chapter 9

1God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Like the green plants, I have given everything to you.

4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

5I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

6Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

7Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

Section 2

Joshua 11:6-12:6

24 verses

Joshua Chapter 11

6ForeverOne said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire." 7So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.

8ForeverOne delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and pursued them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.

9Joshua did to them as ForeverOne told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

11They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

12Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of ForeverOne commanded.

13But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

14The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who breathed.

15As ForeverOne commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that ForeverOne commanded Moses.

16So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; 17from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.

18Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.

20For it was of ForeverOne to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as ForeverOne commanded Moses.

21Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

22There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that ForeverOne spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.

Joshua Chapter 12

1Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: 2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; 3and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: 4and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 5and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6Moses the servant of ForeverOne and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of ForeverOne gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Section 3

1 Chronicles 4:24-5:3

23 verses

1 Chronicles Chapter 4

24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.

28They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, 29and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 30and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 31and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David.

32Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 33and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.

34Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, 35and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 37and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah - 38these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.

39They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.

41These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

42Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

43They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

1 Chronicles Chapter 5

1The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:) 3the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Section 4

Matthew 9:9-31

23 verses

Matthew Chapter 9

9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.

10As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

11When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 12When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

13But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." 14Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?" 15Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

17Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved." 18While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live." 19Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.

20Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; 21for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well." 22But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.

23When Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, 24he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

25But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

26The report of this went out into all that land.

27As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" 28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord." 29Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." 30Then their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this." 31But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

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