|
Bible Reading For January 31: Exodus 22-23, Matthew 22:1-22
| Exodus 22 |
|---|
| 1 | If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. | | 2 | If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. | | 3 | If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. | | 4 | If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. | | 5 | If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. | | 6 | If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. | | 7 | If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. | | 8 | If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, [to see] whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. | | 9 | For all manner of trespass, [whether it be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, which [another] challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; [and] whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. | | 10 | If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing [it]: | | 11 | [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept [thereof], and he shall not make [it] good. | | 12 | And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. | | 13 | If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn. | | 14 | And if a man borrow [ought] of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof [being] not with it, he shall surely make [it] good. | | 15 | [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing], it came for his hire. | | 16 | And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. | | 17 | If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. | | 18 | Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. | | 19 | Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. | | 20 | He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. | | 21 | Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. | | 22 | Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. | | 23 | If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; | | 24 | And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. | | 25 | If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. | | 26 | If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: | | 27 | For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious. | | 28 | Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. | | 29 | Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. | | 30 | Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. | | 31 | And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. |
| Exodus 23 |
|---|
| 1 | Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. | | 2 | Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]: | | 3 | Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. | | 4 | If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. | | 5 | If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. | | 6 | Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. | | 7 | Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. | | 8 | And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. | | 9 | Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. | | 10 | And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: | | 11 | But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard. | | 12 | Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. | | 13 | And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. | | 14 | Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. | | 15 | Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) | | 16 | And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. | | 17 | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. | | 18 | Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. | | 19 | The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. | | 20 | Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. | | 21 | Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him. | | 22 | But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. | | 23 | For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. | | 24 | Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. | | 25 | And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. | | 26 | There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. | | 27 | I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. | | 28 | And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. | | 29 | I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. | | 30 | By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. | | 31 | And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. | | 32 | Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. | | 33 | They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. |
| Matthew 22:1-22 |
|---|
| 1 | And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables , and said | | 2 | The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king , which made a marriage for his son , | | 3 | And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding : and they would not come | | 4 | Again , he sent forth other servants , saying Tell them which are bidden Behold I have prepared my dinner : my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] killed and all things [are] ready : come unto the marriage . | | 5 | But they made light of [it], and went their ways one to his farm , another to his merchandise : | | 6 | And the remnant took his servants , and entreated [them] spitefully and slew [them]. | | 7 | But when the king heard [thereof], he was wroth and he sent forth his armies , and destroyed those murderers , and burned up their city . | | 8 | Then saith he to his servants , The wedding is ready , but they which were bidden were not worthy . | | 9 | Go ye therefore into the highways and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage . | | 10 | So those servants went out into the highways , and gathered together all as many as they found both bad and good : and the wedding was furnished with guests | | 11 | And when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment : | | 12 | And he saith unto him , Friend , how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment ? And he was speechless | | 13 | Then said the king to the servants , Bind him hand and foot , and take him away and cast [him] into outer darkness ; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth . | | 14 | For many are called , but few [are] chosen . | | 15 | Then went the Pharisees , and took counsel how they might entangle him in [his] talk . | | 16 | And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians , saying Master , we know that thou art true , and teachest the way of God in truth , neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the person of men . | | 17 | Tell us therefore , What thinkest thou ? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar , or not ? | | 18 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness , and said Why tempt ye me , [ye] hypocrites ? | | 19 | Shew me the tribute money . And they brought unto him a penny . | | 20 | And he saith unto them , Whose [is] this image and superscription ? | | 21 | They say unto him , Caesar's . Then saith he unto them , Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's ; and unto God the things that are God's . | | 22 | When they had heard [these words], they marvelled and left him , and went their way |
|