Leviticus 20

• 1. The LORD said to Moses,
• 2. "Give the Israelites these instructions, which apply to those who are Israelites by birth as well as to the foreigners living among you. If any among them devote their children as burnt offerings to Molech, they must be stoned to death by people of the community.
• 3. I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name by giving their children to Molech.
• 4. And if the people of the community ignore this offering of children to Molech and refuse to execute the guilty parents,
• 5. then I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, along with all those who commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.
• 6. "If any among the people are unfaithful by consulting and following mediums or psychics, I will turn against them and cut them off from the community.
• 7. So set yourselves apart to be holy, for I, the LORD, am your God.
• 8. Keep all my laws and obey them, for I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
• 9. "All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense.
• 10. "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.
• 11. If a man has intercourse with his father's wife, both the man and the woman must die, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
• 12. If a man has intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death. They have acted contrary to nature and are guilty of a capital offense.
• 13. "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have committed a detestable act and are guilty of a capital offense.
• 14. If a man has intercourse with both a woman and her mother, such an act is terribly wicked. All three of them must be burned to death to wipe out such wickedness from among you.
• 15. "If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.
• 16. If a woman approaches a male animal to have intercourse with it, she and the animal must both be put to death. Both must die, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
• 17. "If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, it is a terrible disgrace. Both of them must be publicly cut off from the community. Since the man has had intercourse with his sister, he will suffer the consequences of his guilt.
• 18. If a man has intercourse with a woman suffering from a hemorrhage, both of them must be cut off from the community, because he exposed the source of her flow, and she allowed him to do it.
• 19. "If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, whether his mother's sister or his father's sister, he has violated a close relative. Both parties are guilty of a capital offense.
• 20. If a man has intercourse with his uncle's wife, he has violated his uncle. Both the man and woman involved are guilty of a capital offense and will die childless.
• 21. If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity. He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.
• 22. "You must carefully obey all my laws and regulations; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you will vomit you out.
• 23. Do not live by the customs of the people whom I will expel before you. It is because they do these terrible things that I detest them so much.
• 24. But I have promised that you will inherit their land, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the LORD, am your God, who has set you apart from all other people.
• 25. "You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any animal or bird or creeping creature that I have forbidden.
• 26. You must be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.
• 27. "Men and women among you who act as mediums or psychics must be put to death by stoning. They are guilty of a capital offense."

Psalms 25

• 1. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
• 2. I trust in you, my God! Do not let me be disgraced, or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.
• 3. No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
• 4. Show me the path where I should walk, O LORD; point out the right road for me to follow.
• 5. Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.
• 6. Remember, O LORD, your unfailing love and compassion, which you have shown from long ages past.
• 7. Forgive the rebellious sins of my youth; look instead through the eyes of your unfailing love, for you are merciful, O LORD.
• 8. The LORD is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray.
• 9. He leads the humble in what is right, teaching them his way.
• 10. The LORD leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all those who keep his covenant and obey his decrees.
• 11. For the honor of your name, O LORD, forgive my many, many sins.
• 12. Who are those who fear the LORD? He will show them the path they should choose.
• 13. They will live in prosperity, and their children will inherit the Promised Land.
• 14. Friendship with the LORD is reserved for those who fear him. With them he shares the secrets of his covenant.
• 15. My eyes are always looking to the LORD for help, for he alone can rescue me from the traps of my enemies.
• 16. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and in deep distress.
• 17. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all!
• 18. Feel my pain and see my trouble. Forgive all my sins.
• 19. See how many enemies I have, and how viciously they hate me!
• 20. Protect me! Rescue my life from them! Do not let me be disgraced, for I trust in you.
• 21. May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
• 22. O God, ransom Israel from all its troubles.

Ecclesiastes 3

• 1. 1 There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven.
• 2. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest.
• 3. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to rebuild.
• 4. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
• 5. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
• 6. A time to search and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to throw away.
• 7. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak up.
• 8. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.
• 9. What do people really get for all their hard work?
• 10. I have thought about this in connection with the various kinds of work God has given people to do.
• 11. God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
• 12. So I concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they can.
• 13. And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.
• 14. And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God's purpose in this is that people should fear him.
• 15. Whatever exists today and whatever will exist in the future has already existed in the past. For God calls each event back in its turn.
• 16. I also noticed that throughout the world there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!
• 17. I said to myself, "In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds."
• 18. Then I realized that God allows people to continue in their sinful ways so he can test them. That way, they can see for themselves that they are no better than animals.
• 19. For humans and animals both breathe the same air, and both die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless!
• 20. Both go to the same place--the dust from which they came and to which they must return.
• 21. For who can prove that the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth?
• 22. So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why they are here! No one will bring them back from death to enjoy life in the future.

New Living Translation: 106 of 365 days.