The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for February 9:

First, from Genesis Chapter 25 verse 29 to Chapter 26 verse 11. Follow that by reading from Judges Chapter 11 verse 34 to Chapter 13 verse 5. The third part is 1 Chronicles Chapter 23 verses 1 to 23; and lastly Matthew Chapter 25 verses 1 to 23

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 25:29-26:11

17 verses

Genesis Chapter 25

29Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

30Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

31Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." 32Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" 33Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

34Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis Chapter 26

1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

2ForeverOne appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

4I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, 5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." 6Isaac lived in Gerar.

7The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at." 8It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'" 10Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!" 11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

Section 2

Judges 11:34-13:5

27 verses

Judges Chapter 11

34Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

35It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to ForeverOne, and I can't go back." 36She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to ForeverOne; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because ForeverOne has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon." 37She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions." 38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

39It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel, 40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Judges Chapter 12

1The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!" 2Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand.

3When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and ForeverOne delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?" 4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh." 5The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;" 6then they said to him, "Now say 'Shibboleth;'" and he said "Sibboleth;" for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold of him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

8After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

9He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

10Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

11After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

12Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

13After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

14He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

15Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

Judges Chapter 13

1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of ForeverOne; and ForeverOne delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

3The angel of ForeverOne appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

4Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing: 5for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

Section 3

1 Chronicles 23:1-23

23 verses

1 Chronicles Chapter 23

1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

2He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

3The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of ForeverOne; six thousand were officers and judges; 5four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised ForeverOne with the instruments which I made, for giving praise." 6David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

7Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

8The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

9The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.

10The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

11Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.

12The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before ForeverOne, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

14But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

15The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

16The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

17The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

18The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

19The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

20The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

21The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

22Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].

23The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

Section 4

Matthew 25:1-23

23 verses

Matthew Chapter 25

1"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

3Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 4but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

6But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!' 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 9But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' 10While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

11Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' 12But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' 13So watch, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

14"For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.

15To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

16Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.

17In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.

18But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth and hid his master's money.

19"Now after a long time the master of those servants came, and settled accounts with them.

20He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'master, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.' 21"His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.' 22"He who got the two talents also came and said, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.' 23"His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things; I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

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