Bible in a Year - Day 64 - Thursday 5th March 2026

The Bible in a year, bringing the Word to life.

Father God, thank you that we have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable

through the living and enduring Word of God.

Please bring your Word alive to us today.

Amen.

Proverbs chapter 6, verses 20-29.

My Son, keep your Father's command and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

Bind them always on your heart, fasten them round your neck.

When you walk, they will guide you.

When you sleep, they will watch over you.

When you awake, they will speak to you.

For this command is a lamp.

This teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, keeping

you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

Do not lust in your house after her beauty, or let her captivate you with her eyes.

For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife prays on your

very life.

Can a man's scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

Can a man walk on hot calls without his feet being scorched?

So as he who sleeps with another man's wife, no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Mark chapter 12 verses 28 to 44.

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating.

Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him,

Of all the commandments, which is the most important?

The most important one answered Jesus is this.

Dear O Israel, the Lord are God, the Lord is one.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,

and with all your strength.

The second is this, love your neighbor as yourself.

There is no commandment greater than these.

Well said teacher, the man replied, you're right in saying that God is one, and there

is no other but him.

You love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength,

and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, you're not far from the kingdom

of God, and from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, why did the teachers of the law

say that the Messiah is the son of David?

David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at

my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.

David himself calls him Lord, how then can he be his son?

The large crowd listened to him with delight.

As he taught, Jesus said, watch out for the teachers of the law.

They liked to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the market places,

and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at Banquets.

They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers, these men will be punished

most severely.

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put, and watched the crowd

putting their money into the temple treasury.

Many rich people threw in large amounts, but a per-widow came and put into very small

copper coins, worth only a few pence.

Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, truly, I tell you, this per-widow has put more

into the treasury than all the others.

They all give out of their wealth, but she, out of her poverty, put in everything, all

she had to live on.

Leviticus chapter 13

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, when anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot

on their skin that may be a defining skin disease, they must be brought to Aaron the priest

or to one of his sons who is a priest.

The priest is to examine the saw on the skin, and if the hair in the saw has turned white

and the saw appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defining skin disease.

When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean.

If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep,

and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person

for seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the saw is unchanged

and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest is to examine them again, and if the saw has faded and has

not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean, it is only a rash.

They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest

to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again.

The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall

pronounce them unclean.

It is a defining skin disease.

When anyone has a defining skin disease, they must be brought to the priest.

The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has

turned the hair white, and if there is raw flesh in the swelling, it is a chronic skin

disease, and the priest shall pronounce them unclean.

He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.

If the disease breaks out all over their skin, and, so far as the priest can see, it covers

all the skin of the affected person from head to foot.

The priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall

pronounce them clean.

Since it has all turned white, they are clean.

But whenever raw flesh appears in them, they will be unclean.

When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce them unclean.

The raw flesh is unclean.

They have a defining disease.

If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest.

The priest is to examine them, and if the soles have turned white, the priest shall

pronounce the affected person clean, then they will be clean.

When someone has a boil on their skin, and it heals, and in the place where the boil

was, a white swelling already white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest.

The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep, and their hair

in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean.

It is a defining skin disease that has broken out where the boil was.

But if when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it, and it is not more than

skin deep, and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.

If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean.

It is a defining disease.

But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and

the priest shall pronounce them clean.

When someone has a burn on their skin, and a reddish white or white spot appears in the

raw flesh of the burn, the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned

white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defining disease that has broken

out in the burn.

The priest shall pronounce them unclean.

It is a defining skin disease.

But if the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in the spot, and if it is not

more than skin deep, and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin,

the priest shall pronounce them unclean.

It is a defining skin disease.

If however the spot is unchanged, and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it

is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.

It is only a scar from the burn.

If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin, the priest is to examine the sore,

and if it appears to be more than skin deep, and their hair in it is yellow and thin,

the priest shall pronounce them unclean.

It is a defining skin disease on the head or chin.

But if when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep,

and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for

seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest is to examine the sore, and if it is not spread, and there

is no yellow hair in it, and it does not appear to be more than skin deep, then the man or

woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep

them isolated another seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the

skin, and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean.

They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

But if the sore does spread in the skin, after they are pronounced clean, the priest is

to examine them, and if he finds that the sore has spread in the skin, he does not need

to look for yellow hair, they are unclean.

If however the sore is unchanged, so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has

grown in it, the affected person is healed, they are clean, and the priest shall pronounce

them clean.

If a man or woman has white spots on the skin, the priest is to examine them, and if the

spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that is broken out on the skin, they are

clean.

A man who has lost his hair and his bald is clean.

If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defining disease

breaking out on his head or forehead.

The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white,

like a defining skin disease, the man is diseased and is unclean.

The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.

Anyone with such a defining disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt,

cover the lower part of their face, and cry out, unclean, unclean.

As long as they have the disease, they remain unclean.

They must live alone, they must live outside the camp.

As for any fabric that is spoiled with a defiling mold, any woolen or linen clothing,

any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather,

if the affected area in the fabric, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or any leather

article is greenish or reddish, it is a defining mold and must be shown to the priest.

The priest is to examine the affected area and isolate the article for seven days.

On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the

woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent, defiling

mold, the article is unclean.

He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather

article that has been spoiled, because the defiling mold is persistent, the article

must be burned.

But if when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or

knitted material, or the leather article, he shall order that the spoiled article be washed,

then he is to isolate it for another seven days.

After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has

not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean.

Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled.

If when the priest examines it, the mold has faded after the article has been washed,

he is to tear the spoiled part out of the fabric, the leather, or the woven or knitted material.

But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather

article, it is a spreading mold, whatever has the mold must be burned.

Any fabric, woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and

is rid of the mold must be washed again, then it will be clean.

These are the regulations concerning defiling molds in woolen or linen clothing, woven

or knitted material, or any leather article for pronouncing them clean or unclean.

Father God, thank you for the gift of your words, help us to treasure it and never take

it for granted.

Amen.

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