Reading 1 - Exo 34:20 "No one is to appear before me empty-handed" (Exo 34:20). "When the Israelites went to appear before the LORD at...

Reading 1 - Exo 31 So many of God's faithful servants have been shepherds: Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David, to name but a...

Reading 1 - Exo 30:1 "Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense" (Exo 30:1). Morning and evening, incense was burnt on this altar....

Reading 1 - Exo 29:20 "Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the...

Reading 1 - Exo 28:1,2 "Have Aaron your brother brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his ... so they may serve me as...

Reading 1 - Exo 27:1 "Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits [about 4 1/2 feet] high; it is to be square, five cubits [about 7 1/2...

Reading 1 - Exo 26 The tabernacle built in the days of Moses was the center of divine worship in Israel. It was a figure for the time...

Reading 1 - Exo 25:40 "See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain" (Exo 25:40). "An artist, in drawing a...

Reading 1 - Exo 23:19 "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk" (Exo 23:19). Here is an interesting prohibition, which is found...

Reading 1 - Exo 22:1-9 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox...

Reading 1 - Exo 21:5,6 "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,' then his...

Reading 1 - Exo 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me" (Exo 20:3). An "idol" is something men "worship"... which "blinds" their...

Reading 1 - Exo 17:12 "When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his...

Reading 1 - Exo 15 "Such is the song of Moses [Exo 15], admirable for the boldness of its imagery, the sublimity of its sentiments, and...

Reading 1 - Exo 13:18,19 "The Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him" (Exo 13:18,19)....

Reading 1 - Exo 12:13 "The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No...

Reading 1 - Exo 9:16 "But I (God) have raised you (Pharaoh) up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name...

Reading 1 - Exo 10:16 "Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you' "...

Reading 1 - Exo 4:2-4 "Then the LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he replied" (Exo 4:2). God can use even the...

Reading 1 - Gen 50:26 "So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt"...