Feb.
10
Genesis
41
Gen
41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and behold, he stood by the river.
Gen
41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Gen
41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river,
ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the
river.
Gen
41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.
So Pharaoh awoke.
Gen
41:5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of
grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
Gen
41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full
ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Gen
41:8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he
sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh
told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them
to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I
remember my faults today.
Gen
41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in
the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
Gen
41:11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
Gen
41:12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our
dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
Gen
41:13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored
me to my office, and he hanged him."
Gen
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and
there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,
that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen
41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God
will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
Gen
41:17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on
the brink of the river:
Gen
41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat
and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
Gen
41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and
very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
ugliness.
Gen
41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
Gen
41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that
they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
Gen
41:22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on
one stalk, full and good:
Gen
41:23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of
grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
Gen
41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one.
What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good
heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Gen
41:27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the
east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Gen
41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about
to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the
plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will
consume the land,
Gen
41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that
famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Gen
41:32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Gen
41:33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise
man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in
the seven plenteous years.
Gen
41:35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come,
and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities,
and let them keep it.
Gen
41:36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land
not perish through the famine."
Gen
41:37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
all his servants.
Gen
41:38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as
this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
Gen
41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of
this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
Gen
41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will
all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than
you."
Gen
41:41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all
the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold
chain about his neck,
Gen
41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had.
They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you
shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him
Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph
went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth
abundantly.
Gen
41:48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in
the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of
the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
Gen
41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until
he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Gen
41:50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For,"
he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house."
Gen
41:52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Gen
41:53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end.
Gen
41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had
said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
Gen
41:55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to
Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Gen
41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph
opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine
was severe in the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain,
because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Feb. 10, 11
Matthew 21
Mat 21:1 When they drew
near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives,
then Jesus sent two disciples,
Mat 21:2 saying to
them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately
you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and
bring them to me.
Mat 21:3 If anyone says
anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and
immediately he will send them."
Mat 21:4 All this was
done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the
prophet, saying,
Mat 21:5 "Tell the
daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding
on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Mat 21:6 The disciples
went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
Mat 21:7 and brought
the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat
on them.
Mat 21:8 A very great
multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from
the trees, and spread them on the road.
Mat 21:9 The multitudes
who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to
the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!"
Mat 21:10 When he had
come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who
is this?"
Mat 21:11 The
multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of
Galilee."
Mat 21:12 Jesus entered
into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and
bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and
the seats of those who sold the doves.
Mat 21:13 He said to
them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of
prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
Mat 21:14 The blind and
the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Mat 21:15 But when the
chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did,
and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna
to the son of David!" they were indignant,
Mat 21:16 and said to
him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to
them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and
nursing babies you have perfected praise?' "
Mat 21:17 He left them,
and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
Mat 21:18 Now in the
morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
Mat 21:19 Seeing a fig
tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves.
He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!"
Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Mat 21:20 When the
disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree
immediately wither away?"
Mat 21:21 Jesus
answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith,
and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree,
but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the
sea,' it would be done.
Mat 21:22 All things,
whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Mat 21:23 When he had
come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people
came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do
you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
Mat 21:24 Jesus
answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you
tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
Mat 21:25 The baptism
of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They
reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he
will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Mat 21:26 But if we
say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a
prophet."
Mat 21:27 They answered
Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them,
"Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 21:28 But what do
you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said,
'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
Mat 21:29 He answered,
'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
Mat 21:30 He came to
the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he
didn't go.
Mat 21:31 Which of the
two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The
first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that
the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom
of God before you.
Mat 21:32 For John came
to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but
the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it,
you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
Mat 21:33 "Hear
another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who
planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it,
built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another
country.
Mat 21:34 When the
season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers,
to receive his fruit.
Mat 21:35 The farmers
took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again, he
sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the
same way.
Mat 21:37 But afterward
he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
Mat 21:38 But the
farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the
heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
Mat 21:39 So they took
him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Mat 21:40 When
therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
farmers?"
Mat 21:41 They told
him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will
lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit
in its season."
Mat 21:42 Jesus said to
them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which
the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This
was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
Mat 21:43 "Therefore
I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will
be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.
Mat 21:44 He who falls
on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall,
it will scatter him as dust."
Mat 21:45 When the
chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived
that he spoke about them.
Mat 21:46 When they
sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they
considered him to be a prophet.