Day 72 of 365

Num 9:1–10:34

9:1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

9:2 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

9:4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.

9:5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

9:6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

9:7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"

9:8 Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you."

9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

9:10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.

9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

9:12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he did not offer the offering of the Lord in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

9:14 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to the Lord; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"

9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

9:16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.

9:18 At the commandment of the Lord, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of the Lord they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

9:19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the Lord's command, and did not travel.

9:20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the Lord they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the Lord they traveled.

9:21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.

9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and did not travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.

9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they encamped, and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled. They kept the Lord's command, at the commandment of the Lord by Moses.

10:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

10:2 "Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.

10:3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

10:4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

10:5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

10:9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord your God."

10:11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.

10:12 The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

10:13 They first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.

10:14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

10:15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.

10:16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.

10:17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

10:19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

10:20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.

10:21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

10:22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

10:23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.

10:24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

10:25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.

10:26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.

10:27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.

10:28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

10:29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel."

10:30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."

10:31 He said, "Do not leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

10:32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the Lord does to us, we will do the same to you."

10:33 They set forward from the Mount of the Lord three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

10:34 The cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.

10:35 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!"

10:36 When it rested, he said, "Return, Lord, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."

Mark 14:1–19

1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

2 For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

3 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard-very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, "Why has this ointment been wasted?

5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.

6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

9 Truly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."

10 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

11 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

12 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"

13 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

14 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

15 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there."

16 The disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

17 When it was evening he came with the twelve.

18 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me-he who eats with me."

19 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?"

Ps 32:1–11

1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

7 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

9 Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the Lord.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!