The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for February 6:

First, Genesis Chapter 24 verses 42 to 60. Follow that by reading from Judges Chapter 9 verse 34 to Chapter 10 verse 5. The third part is 1 Chronicles Chapter 21 verses 1 to 17; and lastly Matthew Chapter 23 verses 23 to 39

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 24:42-60

19 verses

Genesis Chapter 24

42I came this day to the spring, and said, 'ForeverOne, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go - 43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink," 44and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels," - let her be the woman whom ForeverOne has appointed for my master's son.' 45Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.' 46She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.

47I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

48I bowed my head, and worshiped ForeverOne, and blessed ForeverOne, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left." 50Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from ForeverOne. We can't speak to you bad or good.

51Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as ForeverOne has spoken." 52It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to ForeverOne.

53The servant produced jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

54They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master." 55Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go." 56He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since ForeverOne has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." 57They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her." 58They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." 59They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.

60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."

Section 2

Judges 9:34-10:5

29 verses

Judges Chapter 9

34Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

35Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

36When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains." Zebul said to him, "You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men." 37Gaal spoke again and said, "Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim." 38Then Zebul said to him, "Now where is your mouth, that you said, 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Isn't this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them." 39Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

40Abimelech pursued him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

41Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

42It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

43He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.

44Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.

45Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

46When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of El Berith.

47It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

48Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!" 49All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

51But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

52Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

53A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.

54Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died." 55When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.

56Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers; 57and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

Judges Chapter 10

1After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

2He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

3After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

5Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

Section 3

1 Chronicles 21:1-17

17 verses

1 Chronicles Chapter 21

1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them." 3Joab said, "May ForeverOne make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?" 4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

6But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

8David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." 9ForeverOne spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 10"Go and speak to David, saying, 'Thus says ForeverOne, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'" 11So Gad came to David, and said to him, "Thus says ForeverOne, 'Take your choice: 12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of ForeverOne, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of ForeverOne destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.'" 13David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of ForeverOne; for his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into the hand of man." 14So ForeverOne sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, ForeverOne saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." The angel of ForeverOne was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of ForeverOne standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

17David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O ForeverOne my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

Section 4

Matthew 23:23-39

17 verses

Matthew Chapter 23

23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

25"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous, 30and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31So you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

34So behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

36Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

37"Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you wouldn't let me!

38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

39For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

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