June 29, 2006

  • My Bible Reading and Notes

    I'm fairly sure that I have read and had the King James version of bible read to me, probably several times. I just wanted to do it again, this time in NIV.

    UPDATE: Did you know that, if you use this online bible http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joh%203:16&version=9 there is a little loudspeaker you can click at the top of each chapter and this guy reads it to you? That has helped me a lot. I think what is slowing me down in my making notes. I wanted to comprehend everything as correctly as I could. I thought it would help to be able to go back and see when certain things happened...like were it says something in particular. EX: when Moses received the commandments. 

    My Bible Reading and Notes

    Bible Reading Plan -- the Bible Chronologically
    Found at this site:     http://www.bibleplan.org/c/niv/

    Read the Bible chronologically in 365 days.
    View this plan in a dated form.

    Day 1 ---     Genesis 1-3   (read 4/25/06) In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth. God created light, sky, land and seas, vegetation, sun and moon and stars, fish and birds, animals and creatures, and man. (2) God rested on the 7th day and made it holy. Streams watered everything. God breathed breath into man. God planted a garden and in the middle he planted "the tree of life". There were 4 rivers. God put the man into the garden. Man had everything he needed there. He told him to eat but not to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden or he would die. The man gave names to everything. Adam was the man's name. God made Adam go into a deep sleep and took one of his ribs and made "woman". They were naked but they didn't know to be ashamed. (3) A serpent talked the woman into eating from the tree in the middle of the garden. They realized they were naked. They hid from God. The man blamed the woman for them eating from the tree. The woman blamed the serpent. God cursed the serpent for all the days of his life. God caused the woman to have to have pain in childbirth and to serve her husband. God caused Adam to have to work the ground for food.  They would also die. Then God threw them out of the Garden.
    Day 2 ---     Genesis 4-7   (read 4/26/06) Adam and Eve had a son, Cain and then another, Able. Able kept flocks and Cain worked the soil. Cain was jealous because God favored Able's offering more. Cain killed his brother, Able. Eve had another son, Seth. The next verses tell all the generations from Adam to Noah. The Lord saw how wicked man had became so he decided to destroy them. Noah was the only man he found that was not wicked so he chose him to build an ark and told him every measurement to make and exactly how to build it.  He told Noah to take all his family, wife, 3 sons and their wives, into the ark. He also told him to take each animal, and told him how many, into the ark. Noah did all the things the Lord told him to do.  It had not rained until then. It rained 40 days and 40 nights.  Every living thing on the earth perished. Noah and his family and the creatures in the ark didn't die.
    Day 3 ---     Genesis 8-11 (read 4/27/06) God sent a wind over the earth and the waters receded. As the water started going down, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah waited and sent out a dove but the dove couldn't find a place to light so it came back to the ark. Noah waited 7 more days and sent it out again. this time it came back with an olive leaf. Noah waited 7 more days and sent her out again and she didn't come back. This was a good sign that she found land and stayed on it. God told Noah to come out of the ark and bring his family and all the animals. He told them to be fruitful and multiply. Noah build an alter and sacrificed clean animals and birds. God smelled the pleasing aroma and said that He would never destroy the earth with water again. God set a rainbow in the sky for us to remember his promise not to cause water to destroy man and the living creature on earth. Noah planted and grew a vineyard. He got drunk and and naked and his son, Ham, saw him and told his brothers. His brothers took a cover for him and took it to their father, walking backward so they wouldn't see their father naked. When Noah awoke, he cursed Ham, father of Canaan, saying he would be a slave to his brothers. After Noah died, the next chapter give an account of the next generations of the 3 sons of Noah.
    Men started building a city and a tower to the heavens to make a name for themselves. When God saw what they were doing, he made them all speak a different language, so they couldn't understand each other and they gave up building the tower and scattered all over the world.
    The rest of the chapter gives the generations from Shem to Abram.
    Abram was Lot's uncle. Abram's wife was Sarah. She had not had children.
    Day 4 ---     Job 1-5           (read 4/28/06 and again 10/21/06) There was a good man who feared God, who had children and flocks.
    The angels came to present themselves to God and so did Satan. Satan told God that if all Jobs belongings were taken away from him, he would surely curse God. So, as a test of Jobs faith, God put everything Job had into Satan's hands except Jobs own life. Jobs oxen and donkeys were stolen and his servants were killed. Fire fell from the sky and killed his shepards and sheep. His camels were stolen and those servants were killed. A fire burned all his children. Job tore his robe, shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped God. Job got sores from his head to his feet. While he was sitting in ashes scraping himself with broken pottery, his wife told him he should curse God and die. He said they would accept the bad because they accepted the good. Jobs 3 friends went to him. When they saw him from a distance they all weeped. They tore their clothes and put dust on their heads and sat on the ground with him for seven days. None of them said anything because they saw how great his suffering was. Job cursed the day he was born. His friends discuss why it happened and what to do    .
    Day 5 ---     Job 6-9           (read 5/07/06 again 10/24/06) With his friends, Job questions and wonders why all this has happened to him. He is still holding up for his God. He spoke out and complained of the anguish of his spirit and the bitterness of his soul. He gets advice from another of the friends. Job tells of how mighty God is.
    Day 6 ---     Job 10-13       (read 5/09/06) Job still talks to his friends about his grief.
    Day 7 ---     Job 14-16       (read 5/10/06) Job and his friends are still talking. Job finally tells them that they are not a comfort to him.
    Day 8 ---     Job 17-20       (read 5/12/06) Job still has no hope. His spirit has been broken. His friends tell him he doesn't know God and that it is Jobs fault he has to stand this pain. He asked for pity because no one loves him. But Job still believes in his Redeemer. Job's friends still talk and tell him that he has done something wicked to deserve what he is going through.
    Day 9 ---     Job 21-23       (read 5/13/06)Job talks to his friends about how the wicked people still seems to be blessed with everything. They never seem go be destroyed and bad things never happen to them. They even seem to die in peace. Both good and bad die and and worms cover them both the good and wicked. One of his friends accused Job of bad things. He told him to return to God and remove wickedness from his life. He tried to give him advice. Job said, he wanted to talk to God and see what was wrong. He said he couldn' t find God but that God knew exactly what Job was doing and that God could see that he still worshipped him and tried to do what God wanted. Job said when he was done being tested, he would be as gold.


    Day 10 ---     Job 24-28     (read 5/15/06)
    Day 11 ---     Job 29-31     (read 5/15/06)
    Day 12 ---     Job 32-34     (read 5/15/06)
    Day 13 ---     Job 35-37     (read 5/15/06)
    Day 14 ---     Job 38-39     (read 5/17/06)
    Day 15 ---     Job 40-42     (read 5/17/06)
    Day 16 ---     Genesis 12-15 (read 5/30-/06)
    Day 17 ---     Genesis 16-18 (read 5/30/06)
    Day 18 ---     Genesis 19-21 (read 5/30/06) Two angels were going to sleep in the city square. The men of the city wanted to have sex with the angels. Lot tried to offer his daughters to them but the men of the city were relentless. The 2 angels pulled Lot back inside the house and the angels struck the men blind. The angels led Lot and his wife and daughters out of the city of Sodom, telling them not to look back, and they went to Zoar. Lot's wife turned and looked back and she turned into a pillar of salt. The next morning, Lot saw that Sodom and Gomorrah had been destroyed because the Lord made it rain down burning sulfer on both cities. Lots daughters got their father to drink wine and get drunk. They slept with him, thinking they would have child by him and preserve the family line. Each of the two daughters had a son by their father, Lot.
    Because she ws pretty, Abraham and Sarah told King Abimelech that Sarah was his sister, out of fear that Abimelech would kill him. Abimelech sent for Sarah but God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him she was a married woman. He summoned Abraham and asked why he had almost brought death to him by telling that Sarah was his wife. Abraham explained and since Abimelch hadn't touched Sarah it was all worked out. The King gave Abraham silver and told him to live anywhere in the land he wanted. 21 The Lord was gracious to Sarah and she did get pregant and had a son. They named him Isaac. During a feast, Sarah saw Hagar and her son, Ishmael, mocking and told Abraham to get rid of them. Since it was Abraham's son, the Lord promised that his ofspring would become a great nation. So when Hagar and Ishmael were in the desert they thought they would die, but an angel came to them. Hagar's eyes were opened and she saw a well and drank and gave to her son. He grew up in the desert and became an archer.


    Day 19 ---     Genesis 22-24 (read 5/30/06) Genesis 22; God tested Abraham. God told Abraham to take his son, Isaac and sacrifice him as a burnt offering. Abraham bound his son and laid him on the alter. When Abraham drew back a knife, God stopped him and provided a ram instead of Isaac for an offering. Genesis 23…Abraham's wife Sarah died at age 127. He buried her in the cave of the field of Machpelah. He bought the place to bury her from Ephron. Genesis 24…Abraham was old. He wanted a servant to go find a wife for his son, Isaac, but not a Canaanite. Abraham wanted Isaac to marry a woman from his own people. Abraham said to his servant that God would send an angel ahead of him. Then if the woman would not follow him back, it would not be the servant's fault. The servant went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor. The servant made the camels kneel down at the well during the same time the women went out to draw water. The servant prayed that when the women came out that when he asked for water, the "chosen" woman would give him water and also give his camels a drink too. That is how he would know that this was the one that was meant to be Isaac's wife. Before he got through speaking, Rebekah came to draw water from the well. She was very pretty and a virgin. The servant asked her for a drink of water. She gave it to him and also gave the camels water too. The servant gave her a golden earring, 2 bracelets and 10 shekels of gold. He asked who her father was and if he had a place that he and his camels could spend the night. She told him there was room for him and straw for the camels too. The servant bowed his head and worshipped the Lord. Rebekah ran home and told what had happened. Rebekah's brother, Laban came out and invited the servant in and called him ‘blessed of the Lord". The servant told the family who he was and of all the blessings that Abraham had that would be Issac's…all of his camels and servants and riches. He told them the story of how he had prayed, all that had happened by the well and how he was to find Isaac a wife. Laban listened and said he could take Rebekah back to marry Isaac. He stayed all night and took her back with him. Before they even got to Abraham's camp, Rebekah and Isaac saw each other. Isaac ran to meet Rebekah and she lighted off the camel and covered herself with a veil. Rebekah became Isaac's wife and loved her.
    Day 20 ---     Genesis 25-26 (read 5/31/06) Abraham took another wife who gave him sons. Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. Abraham lived 175 years and died and was buried with Sarah. Ishmael's descendants lived in hostility toward all his brothers. Rebekah had twins. Esau, then Jacob.  Isaac loved Esau (a hunter), Rebekah loved Jacob (a gardener). Esau was starving one day and sold his birthright to Jacob for some food.
    Day 21 ---     Genesis 27-29 (read 5/31/06) Isaac was old and blind. Rebekah heard him tell Esau to hunt some meat and cook it for him and he would bless him before he dies. Esau was hairy so Rebekah took hairy animal skins and put them on Jacob so that he might fool his father into thinking he was Esau and get his blessing.
    Jacob loved Rachel but his father-in- law tricked him into working 7 years for her sister Leah as a wife, then 7 more years for Leah.
    Day 22 ---     Genesis 30-31 (read 6/1/06) Rachel and Leah have a child bearing contest. They let their maids sleep with their husband and the maids have several children by Jacob. Finally, Rachael has a son for Jacob, Joseph. Jacob and his father in law make a deal. Jacob gets all the livestock with stripes. Jacob "marks" the livestock by using sticks that are striped. After 20 years of working for his father in law, Jacob leaves and takes his wives, Rachel and Leah and his children and flocks back to his father's country.
    Day 23 ---     Genesis 32-34 (read 6/05/06)  Genesis ch 32 Jacob travels back to the country where his brother Esau is. He was afraid Esau would be angry. During his journey he wrestled with an angel Genesis ch 33 Jacob saw Esau coming and expected Esau to attack him. Instead, Esau embraced Jacob. Jacob settled his family, servants and flocks nearby. Genesis ch 34 Leah and Jacob's daughter, Dinah, was defiled because a man of that country, Shechem, lay with her. He loved her and wanted to marry her. Dinah's brothers were angry. Shechem's people made an agreement with Jacob's people that if the men were circumcised, like Jacob's people, they would intermarry and trade with one another. The men agreed and were circumcised. While they were still sore and weak, Jacob's sons attacked and killed them and took all their belongings
    Day 24 ---     Genesis 35-37 -(read 6/29/2006) Gen 35 God told Jacob to go back to Bethel so he did. God changed Jacob's name to Israel. Rachael had Joseph and after Benjamin was born, she died. Israel's sons were 12 tribes.
    Gen 36 tells of Esau's descendants and of the kings that ruled before any Israelite kings ruled.
    Gen. 37 Joseph was Israel's favorite son. Joseph's brothers hated him because his father loved him more. His father made him a coat of many colors. Joseph dreamed that his brothers would bow down to him. When the brothers heard his dreams, they hated him more. Israel sent Joseph to see about his brothers who were tending flocks in another place. Reuben, his brother, talked the other brothers out of killing Joseph. He said, lets throw him in a pit. Reuben planned to go get him out of the pit when his brothers didn't know. The brothers took his coat and threw him in a pit. The they sold him to the Midianite merchants, who took Joseph to Egypt. When Ruben came back to get him from the pit, he was gone. They had dipped his coat in goats blood and took it to his father and showed it to him. He thought that a wild beast must have devoured him. He mourned for his son, Joseph, and could not be comforted.
    Day 25 ---     Genesis 38-40 (read 06/30/06)  Gen. 38 Judah left his brothers and got married. His wife had 3 sons. The name of one of the sons was Er. When Er had a son, he was wicked in the Lord's eyes so the Lord put him to death. Judah told Er's brother to sleep with Er's wife so she could have children for Er. When the brother did sleep with her, he spilled his semen on the ground. This was wicked in the eyes of the Lord so the brother died. Judah told his daughter in law, Tamar, to live as a widow until his other son grew up. She put on widows clothes and went to live at her father's house.
    Judah's wife died. When he was done grieving he went up to a town where his men were shearing his sheep. When his daughter in law found out, she put a veil over her face and sat at the gate of that town and posed as a prostitute. She was in disguise so her father in law didn't know her. He offered her a sheep to sleep with him and she accepted but wanted something to keep just in case he didn't' come back with the sheep. She asked for his seal and cord and staff. He left it with her. She slept with him and got pregnant. When the men came to deliver her sheep, she was gone. 3 months later, men came to Judah and told him that his daughter in law had been doing prostitution. When she brought the seal, cord and staff to him, Judah said that she was more righteous than him because he didn't give her his younger son to have a child with. Judah's daughter in law had twins. During the birth, one stuck out his hand and the woman that delivered the baby tied a red string around it. The baby drew it back in and the other twin came first. Gen 39 Joseph, Judah's brother, was sold in Egypt to the one of Pharaoh's officials. The Lord was with him and blessed whatever he did so the official put Joseph in charge of all his household and everything he owned. Joseph was handsome so the official's wife enticed Joseph to sleep with her but he wouldn't because he didn't want to sin against the Lord or to take advantage of his Egyptian master. One day she grabbed him and he ran and as he did, he ran off and left his cloak in her hand. Then she told that he tried to rape her and when she screamed for help he ran and left his cloak. The Egyptian master was angry with Joseph and put him in prison. But the Lord was with him again and the prison warden put Joseph in charge of everything there. Gen 40 Two of Pharaoh's servants were in prison with Joseph and they each had a dream that Joseph interpreted. Joseph told one that he would be restored to his position with Pharaoh and Joseph asked him to remember him when he was restored. The other, Joseph interpreted that he would be hanged. It came to pass one was hanged but the one that was restored didn't remember Joseph or put in a good word for him with Pharaoh.
    Day 26 ---     Genesis 41-42 (read 67/1/06) Gen 41. After 2 years, the Pharaoh had dreams and no one could interpret them. Then the man finally remembered Joseph and told Pharaoh about him. Joseph interpreted the dreams and Pharaoh made him second in command over the whole land of Egypt. The dreams had foretold 7 years of plenty and then 6 years of famine. When the 7 years of famine came, Joseph and stored up enough grain for Egypt and the lands around Egypt.
    Gen 42.. The famine was in the land of Canaan, where Joseph's father and brother were. Joseph's brothers, all except Benjamin, went to Joseph to ask for grain. When Joseph saw them he recognized them but they didn't recognize him. Joseph accused them of being spies. He kept one of the brothers and sent the others back to bring the youngest brother, Benjamin to him. He filled their sacks with grain and put their money back into their sack without them knowing. They were afraid when the found their money was put back in their sacks.
    Day 27 ---     Genesis 43-45 (read 07/02/06) Again their father sent them back to Egypt to get more food. They took the silver that they had found in their sacks and more for food and gifts for Joseph and they took their brother Benjamin because Joseph had said not to come without him. Joseph had a meal prepared for them at his home.
    Gen 44 Joseph told his servant to put the food and silver they had brought into the brothers sacks and  cup that Joseph used into Benjamin's sack. Then sent them on their way home. Joseph sent his men to catch up with the brothers and accuse them of stealing his silver cup. When they found it, they took to brothers back to Joseph. The brothers begged for him not to keep Benjamin as a slave, saying it would kill their father because he loved Benjamin so much. Gen 45 Joseph finally let his brothers know who is was and wept and embraced his brothers. Pharaoh heard and sent word for Joseph's father and brothers and all his family to come and live in the best part of Egypt so they could be fed. and sent new clothes for them silver for his father. Joseph's father was revived and said he would go to see his son.
    Day 28 ---     Genesis 46-47  Gen 46. God told Jacob to go down to Egypt and take his people and belongings. Joseph met him and briefed him on how to answer Pharaoh.  Gen 47.  Jacob settled in Goshen and Pharaoh gave them food. The people of Egypt and Canaan had used up all the money but still needed food so Joseph told them to bring their livestock to pay for food.  After the livestock was gone, there was nothing to pay for food except their land and themselves. So they sold their land and put themselves into the bondage of Pharaoh. Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years and felt that it was time for him to die. He made Joseph promise not to bury him in Egypt but take him back to Canaan to bury him.
    Day 29 ---     Genesis 48-50  (Read 7/12/2006) 48 Jacob (Israel) was old and he blessed Joseph's son, Ephraim by putting his right hand on his head instead of Manasseh, the first born. 49 Israel blessed all his sons (the 12 tribes of Israel), and then died. 50 Israel died and was taken to Canaan just as he had made Joseph promise. Pharaoh's men with him to take him there. Joseph's brothers were afraid Joseph would remember what they had done to him and told him that their father wanted Joseph to forgive them and not harm them. Joseph reassured them spoke kindly to them. When it came time for Joseph to die, he told his brothers to take his bones up out of Egypt. When he died, they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
    GENESIS COMPLETE
    Day 30 ---     Exodus 1-3  (Read 7/14/2006) After Joseph and all those generations died, the Israelites multiplied and became exceedingly numerous. The new Pharaoh of Egypt didn't know Joseph or anything about his family. He just noticed how large the number of Israelites there was and was afraid that if they ever went to war, there were so many, they might overpower Egypt. Pharaoh put slave masters over the Israelites and oppressed them and made slaves of the Israelites. It seems the more they were oppressed, the stronger they became and multiplied more. There were midwives that helped during childbirth of the Israelites. The new Pharaoh ordered the midwives to kill the boy babies when the were born. The midwives feared God and let the boys live. When the Pharaoh asked the midwives about it, they said that the Hebrew women were vigorous and gave birth before the midwives even arrived to help. The Pharaoh ordered the boys to be thrown into the river, Nile.
    2 A baby boy was born, one of the descendants of Levi. His mother did not throw him in the river, but kept him home until he was getting to old to hide. She made a basket and fixed it so it wouldn't sink and put him in it. The baby's older sister watched as it floated along the Nile. Pharaoh's daughter found it. She recognized it was a Hebrew baby and felt sorry for him. The baby's sister asked Pharaoh's daughter if she would like a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby and she did. She took the baby to his own mother to nurse. When the baby was older, he was taken back to Pharaoh's daughter. She named him Moses..
    When Moses grew up, he went out to see his own people. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Moses killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. He didn't think anyone saw him. Later, the word got back to the Pharaoh what Moses, Pharaoh tried to have Moses killed. Moses had to leave. He went to Midian where he helped the daughters of Reuel by rescuing and watering their sheep. Moses stayed with them and married Zipporah and they had a son, Gershom. After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Lord heard the cries of the Hebrew slaves and remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
    3 Moses was tending is father in law, Jethro's sheep when he saw a burning bush and went to take a closer look. Then God spoke to him out of the burning bush and told him to go and lead the children of Israel out of bondage and into a land flowing with milk and honey.
    Day 31 ---     Exodus 4-6 (read 7/16/2006) God showed Moses how to make miraculous signs to make the Egyptians believe him. Moses argued with God that he was not a good speaker so God told him to take his brother, Aaron with him to do that. So Moses, his wife and sons went back to Egypt.
    Day 32 ---     Exodus 7-9 (read 8/17/2006 God made plagues come on Egypt, through Moses and Aaron, but each time Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the Israelites go.
    Day 33 ---     Exodus 10-12 (read 8/18/2006) God caused more plagues and finally, the last plague was when the death angel passed over Egypt and the first born of everything and everyone died that didn't observe the Passover. Israelites marked their door facings with the blood of a lamb so their first born's were all safe. Then Pharaoh finally told the children of Israel to leave.
    Day 34 ---     Exodus 13-15 (read 8/19/2006) When all the Israelites left Egypt, Moses took the bones of Joseph with them as promised by the sons of Israel. When they traveled, God led them. By day, they followed a pillar of cloud and by night, a pillar of fire. When the Israelites were camped at the Red sea, the Egyptians changed their minds and started to go bring the Israelites back to Egypt.  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and it parted, letting the Israelites go to the other side, on dry land but when the Egyptians were coming through the parted waters, Moses stretched out his hand again and the water went back together and drowned all the Egyptians. When they came to a place to camp, the water was bitter, so Moses threw a chunk of wood into the water and it became sweet.
    Day 35 ---     Exodus 16-18 (read 8/20/06) God gave the people, manna. It rained this food every morning. The people were to gather 1/10th of an ephah (half a bushel) every day except the 6th day of the week, then they were to gather enough for the 7th day too. The Israelites grumbled because they were thirsty and didn't have any water. So the Lord told Moses to strike a rock and water would come out, and it did. The Israelites were attacked by the Amalekites. During the battle Joshua fought, when Moses held up his hands, Israel was winning. When he let his hands down, the Amelekites were winning. Aaron and Hur held up Moses hands so the Israelites won the battle. Moses father in law, Jethro, came to Moses from his own land and brought Moses sons and wife. When Jethro saw all the Moses was having to do...being judge over all the disputes that the people had, he suggested that Moses have some honest men to help him. From then on, they only took the difficult cases to Moses to judge.
    THE 10 COMMANDMENTS..........................
    Day 36 ---     Exodus 19-21 (Read 8/21/2006)The Israelites camped at the foot of Mount Sinai. God called Moses to come up the mountain but the people where not to touch even the foot of the mountain or they would die. God was in a cloud on the mountain. The people could see the cloud and hear thunder and that made them very afraid. When Moses was on the mountain, God gave him his commandments and laws.
    Day 37 ---     Exodus 22-24  (Read 8/22/2006) God continues to give his rules to the people. He tells them what to do if certain things happen.  He make a covenant with Moses. Moses and some of the elders went up on the mountain. God told Moses to come on up with him and leave the others so God could give him tablets of stone with the laws and commandments. Moses went up and stayed 40 days and 40 nights. The mountain, at the top where Moses was, looked like a consuming fire.
    Day 38 ---     Exodus 25-27  (read 8/24/06) God gives the specifics on how to make a sanctuary/tabernacle and all the articles used in the service of the tabernacle. So he can dwell with the people.
    Day 39 ---     Exodus 28-29  (read 8/25/06) God told Moses to make garments for Aaron and his sons because they were to serve God as priests. and told Moses how to consecrate and ordain them. God told how consecrate the tent and alter.
    Day 40 ---     Exodus 30-32 God told Moses how to make an incense alter, a washing basin.... how to do things for atonement for entering the holy place. God appointed certain artists and craftspeople to do the work on the tabernacle. God instructs them to observe the Sabbath.  After God gave all these instructions to Moses, he also gave him two tablets of stone with all these things engraved on them. God knew that the people were sinning, down below the mountain and He was about to destroy them, but Moses begged Him not to. The people didn't know what had happened to Moses because he had been gone up on the mountain for so long.  So Aaron helped them make an idol to worship. They pulled off all their gold earrings and jewelry and melted it down and made a golden calf to worship and sacrifice burnt offerings. When Moses finally came down from the mountain and saw what the people were doing, he threw the stone tablets and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
    Day 41 ---     Exodus 33-35   (Read 9-11-06) God made more stone tablets with his commandments. Threatened to leave the people because they were stiffnecked. Gave specifics on the tabernacle
    Day 42 ---     Exodus 36-38  (Read 9-11-06) more specifics
    Day 43 ---     Exodus 39-40  (Read 9-11-06) more specifics.
    EXODUS COMPLETE
    Day 44 ---     Leviticus 1-4  (Read 9-12-06) God tells Moses how to make offerings.
    Day 45 ---     Leviticus 5-7  (Read 9-13-06) More regulations on how to make offerings to the Lord.
    Day 46 ---     Leviticus 8-10 (Read 9-14-06) Moses did the ceremonial things, ordained Aaron and his sons and did burnt offerings. As God had told him to.  Moses assembled the people and they had an offering ritual that God had told them to. After the sacrifices, the glory of the Lord appeared to the people. Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the people shouted with joy and fell on their faces. 2 of Aaron's sons did something unauthorized and the fire consumed them and they died. Aaron stayed silent about it.
    Day 47 ---     Leviticus 11-13 (Read 10-8-06) God told Moses and Aaron how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten. He tells how a woman will purify herself after childbirth or period. He tells them how to tell if a skin condition is clean or unclean and how to tell if clothing has mildew and whether to burn it.
    Day 48 ---     Leviticus 14-15 (read 10-8-06) more on how to handle infectious skin diseases, mildew etc. 15. tells about bodily discharge and ceremonial uncleanliness.
    Day 49 ---     Leviticus 16-18 (read 10-19-06) God tells Moses how Aaron is to make atonement for his sins and the Israelites. God tells them not to eat blood. God says what is detestable when it comes to sexual relations. He speaks of homosexual relations.
    Day 50 ---     Leviticus 19-21 (read 10-19-06) God speaks of respecting mother and father, making idols, leaving food in the gardens for gleaners. He speaks of stealing, lying deceiving, slander, bearing grudges, mating things of the same kind. divination or sorcery, cutting bodies and tatoos. Mediums and spiritists. respect elderly. Foreigners.Honesty.  God abhorred these things that the other nations did. He tells what should be done with people who disobey these regulations. He is getting is people ready to go into a new land. He didn't want them to be like the ones who occupied the land before. God told Moses all the rules of the priests. Moses told all this to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites.
    Day 51 ---     Leviticus 22-23 (read 10-20-06) God told Moses more regulations to tell the Israelites, and when and how to do the feasts to the Lord.
    Day 52 ---     Leviticus 24-25 (read 10-20-06) Tells about doing the oil and bread. Also it tell about the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father getting into a fight. He blasphemed the Name and the Lord told them to stone him.  chapter 25 tells how the Israelites are to treat each other according to servants and slaves. 25:25 of the NIV version tells about kin and the buying of property.
    Day 53 ---     Leviticus 26-27 (read 10/22/06) God tells of the rewards and punishment if the Israelites obey or do not obey Him.  He instructs them further.  These are the commands the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
    Day 54 --- Numbers 1-2 (read 10/24/06) The first draft. God ordered a census. The men from each tribe who were 20 years old or older were all numbered and totaled, except the tribe of Levi who were to take care of the tabernacle of the Testimony. God tells how to arrange the camps according to the tribes.
    Day 55 ---     Numbers 3-4 (read 10/26/06) God tells who was responsible for all that had to be taken care of regarding the tent of meeting/tabernacle.
    Day 56 ---     Numbers 5-6  (read 10/28/06) God is still giving regulations and rules to the Israelites. When a man suspected his wife of sleeping with another man, this chapter 5 tells of a test with bitter water to see if the accusation is true or not. God tells how to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the LORD as a Nazirite. God tells Moses and Aaron how to bless the Israelites by saying " ' "The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
    Day 57 ---     Numbers 7  (read 10/29/06) Twelve days and twelve of the leaders came to bring their offerings. This chapter tells what each one brought.


    Day 58 ---     Numbers 8-10  (10/30/06) God tells Moses how to face the lamps. The Levites were purified and the Lord claimed them as his own. The Israelites celebrated the passover. There was a cloud that looked like fire that settled over the tabernacle. The Israelites would camp. When the cloud lifted, they set out. They were obeying the Lord. They were to make trumpets and blow different sounds for different occasions. There was an order of how they were to march.
    Day 59 ---     Numbers 11-13  (11/01/06) The Israelites were craving meat, being tired of the manna that fell for them to eat every day. Moses has too much burden taking care of the whole of Israel so seventy elders were to help him. God promised meat. A wind went from the Lord and blew in quail from the sea, three feet deep and miles around the camp. The Lord was angry and made a plague on the people. Miriam and Aaron talked about Moses and were called up before the cloud that the Lord was in. God was angry and turn Miriam leprous. Moses and Aaron begged God to cure her. He told her to go outside the camp for 7 days. The people waited and didn't travel until she was brought back. Moses sent scouts to the land of Caanan, the same land that God was giving to the Israelites. The scouts said they didn't think they could take the land because the people who lived there were powerful and the cities were large. It was a land flowing with milk and honey but they didn't think they could take it. The Caleb silenced them and said they should go take it.
    Day 60 ---     Numbers 14-15 - Psalm 90 (read 11/06/06)  The men made a bad report of the land and the people all grumbled against the Lord. So God told them they would wander for 40 years and only 2 of them, Caleb and Joshua, would actually see the new land. Some went to conquer the inhabitants, but the Lord was not with them and they were beat back. He gives more rules offerings. The find a man gathering wood on the Sabbath and God tells them to stone him to death. God tells them to make tassels to remind them of His commands. Psalms 90 Moses prays for the people.
    Day 61 ---     Numbers 16-17 (read 11/11/06) There were 3 men that rose up against Moses and Aaron. The Lord caused the earth to open and swallow them and all their households and close back so they were no more. Then God caused fire to consume 250 more who were against Moses and Aaron. A plague began and was stopped. The Lord told Moses to get 12 staffs. The one that spouted and even produced almonds was Aaron's. This was to put an end to the grumbling. The Israelites were asking if they were all going to die.
    Day 62 ---     Numbers 18-20 (read/11/11/06) The Lord gave Aaron his duties and told him what of the things that were devoted to the Lord was his. The Levites and Aaron were the only ones to come near to the tent of meeting. The Lord tell of tithing one-tenth. Chapter 10 tells how to sacrifice and purify an unclean person by water being sprinkled. Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh. There was no water there. The Lord to told Moses to speak to a rock and it would give water. Moses was aggravated with the Israelites for grumbling so much and he struck the rock. Water gushed out of the rock but the Lord told Moses, because he had not honored him in the bringing of the water, that he would not bring the children of Israel into the land that was promised. Moses asked the king of Edom to let the Israelites pass through that land, but the Kind said no. Again Moses asked but Edom said no, they may not pass so Israel turned away from them. Aaron died up on Mount Hor. Israel mourned for him for 30 days. His garments were put on Aaron's son Eleazar.
    Day 63 ---     Numbers 21-22  (read 12/18/06) God helped the Israelites to take possession of land by winning battles.
    One man went out to see certain people. He was riding his donkey. An angel stood in the way with is sword drawn and the donkey turned away each time the angel appeared.
    Day 64 ---     Numbers 23-25 (read 1/8/07)
    Day 65 ---     Numbers 26-27 (read(1/9/97) another census. God appointed Joshua as the leader to take the place of Moses and lead the children of Israel to their new land.
    Day 66 ---     Numbers 28-30  (read 1/9/07) God instructs on offerings, when, how, how much and what to make as an offering. He specifically says to make sure they are without defects. It was very complicated and tedious. There was much to be remembered and observed. I understand why the people needed priests to do their sacrifices and atonements.
    Day 67 ---     Numbers 31-32 (read 2/22/07)
    Day 68 ---     Numbers 33-34 (read 2/22/07)
    Day 69 ---     Numbers 35-36 (read 2/22/07)|
    NUMBERS COMPLETE
    Day 70 ---     Deuteronomy 1-2 (read 2/22/07)
    Day 71 ---     Deuteronomy 3-4  (read 2/22/07)
    Day 72 ---     Deuteronomy 5-7  (read 2/23/07)
    Day 73 ---     Deuteronomy 8-10 (read 2/23/07)
    Day 74 ---     Deuteronomy 11-13  (read 2/23/07)
    Day 75 ---     Deuteronomy 14-16  (read 2/23/07)
    Day 76 ---     Deuteronomy 17-20 (read 2/26/07) Ch 18: 10. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in [a] the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. v.20 is the famous "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" verse.
    Day 77 ---     Deuteronomy 21-23 (read 3/2/07)
    Day 78 ---     Deuteronomy 24-27 (read 3/5/07)
    Day 79 ---     Deuteronomy 28-29 (read 4/13/07)
    Day 80 ---     Deuteronomy 30-31 (read 4/13/07)

    Day 81 ---     Deuteronomy 32-34 - Psalm 91 (read 4/13/07) In Deuteronomy 34 Moses climbed a mountain and saw the promised land. He died without entering it. Josusha became the leader of the Israelites.
    DEUTERONOMY COMPLETE
    Day 82 ---     Joshua 1-4   (read 4/19/07)God puts Joshua in charge of the Israelites. 2....They sent out spies and woman hid the spies on her roof. She told them how she feared them because of all God did for them. She tied a cord in the window as a sign not to harm her and those that dwell in that house. 3....When the priests carried the Ark of the covenant into the Jordan river, the water stopped running and became dry ground.  4...the people went across the river and picked up rocks, according to the 12 tribes of Israel. When they were all across on dry land, the priests carried the ark on and the river started running again.
    Day 83 ---     Joshua 5-8 (read 4/19/07) 5 There was another circumcision of males. The manna stopped and the people ate from the produce of Cannan. When Joshua was near Jericho, there was a soldier in the road with his sword drawn. He was from the army of the Lord. He told Joshua to take off his shoes because he was on holy ground and he did. 6 He told him how to march around the city 6 days and blow trumpets and shout at a certain time on the 7th day, and the wall of the city would collapse. And it did. and they took over the city. Joshua spared the life of the woman who hid the spies and her family. 7 Joshua sent spies to look at a city called Ai. They came back and said that it could be taken with two or three thousand men. But when they went some where killed. The Lord told Joshua, Israel had sinned and took things that were devoted. to remove the devoted things that they shouldn't have taken. Joshua's son was one who took some things. His son was stoned to death. 8: God told Joshua to ambush the city of Ai and set it on fire. When they met in battle, Israel fled and Ai pursued the Israel soldiers and left the city unguarded. When Joshua held out his javelin, the men from the ambush rushed and took over the city and set it on fire. Israel did carry off the livestock and plunder because the God told them to this time.
    Day 84 ---     Joshua 9-11  (read 4/24/07) Joshua 9: One of the countries, Gibeon, near, heard about how God had been on the side of the Israelites and let on like they had traveled a long way to make a treaty with the Israelites. The Israelites ask for God's guidance on that, but went ahead and promised not to kill them. Instead, they became servants to the Israelites. Joshua 10: Other countries, 5 kings, heard about the treaty and attacked Gibeon but Israel took up for them. The Lord was with them. Hail fell and killed. The sun stood still and moon stopped during the battle until Joshua won the battle. The Kings hid in a cave until Joshua asked for them to be brought to him. The kings were hanged and their bodies thrown back into the caves where they were hiding. Joshua took all the countries and their kings and left no survivors, just as God had commanded. Joshua 11: The king of Hazor heard about it and attacked Israel. But God made Israel strong and they destroyed Hazor completely. Joshua destroyed the people and took all the land that God had promised. Then the land had rest from war.
    Day 85 ---     Joshua 12-15 (read 4/27/07) 12 gives a list of the king that was taken over. God told Joshua he is old but still needs to take over a lot more land. God said he would take over part of the land for the Israelites. Some of the land still had it's original inhabitants and they lived there. One of the spies that was sent out earlier came to Joshua and told him that Moses had promised him a certain land for following the Lord with his heart. and he was given Hebron. 15 gives the boundaries of allotments of land and towns
    Day 86 ---     Joshua 16-18 (read 4/27/07) More boundaries and inheritances of land and towns. Some of the original inhabitance remained but were forced to do labor. More territories, boundaries etc. The people of Joseph said they were many and needed more and Joshua gave them the hill country and forest and told them to drive out the Canaanites and use the land for themselves. The tribe of Benjamin inherited Jerusalem.
    Day 87 ---     Joshua 19-21 (read 4/27/07) More allotments of territories and boundaries. God told Joshua to designate cities of refuge where one could go for protection until he gets a trial. The Levities approached and said they were due towns to live in and pasture for livestock So they were given that out of other's inheritance. The Lord gave them all he had promised the forefathers and gave them rest.
    Day 88 ---     Joshua 22-24  (read 4/27/07) The Reubenites and the Gadites built a replica alter, like the original one. The other tribes thought it was in rebelion or disobedience and wanted to go to war. But they said it wasn't. It was built as a witness and not of burnt offerings. They all decided it was not an unfaithful act. And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God. When Joshua was old he gathered the people. Told them to be sure obey the things that were written in the laws of Moses. Not to intermarry with other inhabitants. Not to bow down to their gods. Joshua assembles the people and tells them what God has done for them all down through the generations. Tells them to choose to serve. Joshua said "as me me and my house, we will serve the Lord". The people said "we too will serve the Lord". And Joshua made a covenant with them. He set a stone to be a witness. Joshua died.
    Also Joseph's bones that were carried out of Egypt was buried in the promised land.
    JOSHUA COMPLETE
    Day 89 ---     Judges 1-2 (read 4/28/07) God appointed the men of Judah to fight for the land and cities. This chapter tells of some of the cities that were taked over by Judah. 2. The people disobeyed what the Lord had told them so he didn't drive out some of the people and said that they would be a thorn in their side. Generations past and the later generation didn't know about the Lord and what he had done for the Israelites. They worshiped other gods. God handed them over to their enemies. The Lord maded judges for the people. but they violated the covenent of the forefatheres. So the Lord stopped driving out their enemies.
    Day 90 ---     Judges 3-5 (read 4/29/07) 3 The Israelites married the inhabitants of other lands worshipped other gods. Since they disobeyed, God put them into the hands of enemies for 8 years. When when they cried out, the Lord gave them a deliverer who was Caleb's younger brother. Then the land had peace for 40 years until he died. The Israelites did wrong again and God made them to be under the power of the King of Moab for 18 years. They cried out again and the Lord gave them a left-handed man of Benjamin's desendents. His name was Ehud. He made a double-edged sword and straped it to his right side. He was talking to him in room. He told the kink of Moab that he had a secret message for him. The King excused his servants. When they were gone, Ehud told him the message was from the Lord. Then he drew his sword with his left hand and plunged it into the kings belly, all the way through, burrying the handle into his fat stomach and the blade was sticking out his back. Ehud left the sword in the kings body and there was so much fat, it just sort of swallowed up the sword. Ehud went out on the porch and closed the doors and locked them after him. When the servants tried to open the door they found them locked so they though the king was just in the restroom. It was such a long time they were embarrassed and unlocked the doors and found him dead. Ehud had slipped away while the servants were waiting. Ehud went and gathered the people then, and took over Moab and became rulers over that country. They had peace for 80 years. Then there was Shamgar who killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
    After Ehud died, the Israelites did evil again. So the Lord put them into the hands of Jabin, a King of Canaan. They were oppressed for 20 years. Deborah was the leader of Israel at that time. She told Barak a plan to ambush Jabins army. Deborah went with Barak to Kadesh. When the time came she told Barak to go fight. The commander of the enemy army was Sisera. When battle started, Sisera got out of his chariot and ran on foot to the tent of Jael, who was the wife of a Kenite. She covered him. He said he was thirsty and she gave him a drink. When he went to sleep from exhaustion, she got a tent peg and drove it through his temple. Barak came by trying to find Sisera and she showed him lying there with a peg through his temple, dead.
    Israel grew stronger against Jabin and destroyed him. On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang. Then there was peace for 40 years.

    This got long. About 1/4th of the bible so I divided it. Here is section 2  

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