Exodus 29

• 1. "This is the ceremony for the dedication of Aaron and his sons as priests: Take a young bull and two rams with no physical defects.
• 2. Then using fine wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers with oil poured over them.
• 3. Place these various kinds of bread in a single basket, and present them at the entrance of the Tabernacle, along with the young bull and the two rams.
• 4. "Present Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and wash them with water.
• 5. Then put Aaron's tunic on him, along with the embroidered robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, the chestpiece, and the sash.
• 6. And place on his head the turban with the gold medallion.
• 7. Then take the anointing oil and pour it over his head.
• 8. Next present his sons, and dress them in their tunics
• 9. with their woven sashes and their headdresses. They will then be priests forever. In this way, you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
• 10. "Then bring the young bull to the entrance of the Tabernacle, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on its head.
• 11. You will then slaughter it in the LORD's presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
• 12. Smear some of its blood on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest at the base of the altar.
• 13. Take all the fat that covers the internal organs, also the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and burn them on the altar.
• 14. Then take the carcass (including the skin and the dung) outside the camp, and burn it as a sin offering.
• 15. "Next Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the head of one of the rams
• 16. as it is slaughtered. Its blood will be collected and sprinkled on the sides of the altar.
• 17. Cut up the ram and wash off the internal organs and the legs. Set them alongside the head and the other pieces of the body,
• 18. and burn them all on the altar. This is a burnt offering to the LORD, which is very pleasing to him.
• 19. "Now take the other ram and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head
• 20. as it is slaughtered. Collect the blood and place some of it on the tip of the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons. Also put it on their right thumbs and the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.
• 21. Then take some of the blood from the altar and mix it with some of the anointing oil. Sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their clothes. In this way, they and their clothing will be set apart as holy to the LORD.
• 22. "Since this is the ram for the ordination of Aaron and his sons, take the fat of the ram, including the fat tail and the fat that covers the internal organs. Also, take the long lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh.
• 23. Then take one loaf of bread, one cake mixed with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of yeastless bread that was placed before the LORD.
• 24. Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons to be lifted up as a special gift to the LORD.
• 25. Afterward take the bread from their hands, and burn it on the altar as a burnt offering that will be pleasing to the LORD.
• 26. Then take the breast of Aaron's ordination ram, and lift it up in the LORD's presence as a special gift to him. Afterward keep it for yourself.
• 27. "Set aside as holy the parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons. This includes the breast and the thigh that were lifted up before the LORD in the ordination ceremony.
• 28. In the future, whenever the people of Israel offer up peace offerings or thanksgiving offerings to the LORD, these parts will be the regular share of Aaron and his descendants.
• 29. "Aaron's sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who will succeed him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.
• 30. Whoever is the next high priest after Aaron will wear these clothes for seven days before beginning to minister in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.
• 31. "Take the ram used in the ordination ceremony, and boil its meat in a sacred place.
• 32. Aaron and his sons are to eat this meat, along with the bread in the basket, at the Tabernacle entrance.
• 33. They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their atonement in the ordination ceremony. The ordinary people may not eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
• 34. If any of the ordination meat or bread remains until the morning, it must be burned. It may not be eaten, for it is holy.
• 35. "This is how you will ordain Aaron and his sons to their offices. The ordination ceremony will go on for seven days.
• 36. Each day you must sacrifice a young bull as an offering for the atonement of sin. Afterward make an offering to cleanse the altar. Purify the altar by making atonement for it; make it holy by anointing it with oil.
• 37. Make atonement for the altar every day for seven days. After that, the altar will be exceedingly holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.
• 38. "This is what you are to offer on the altar. Offer two one-year-old lambs each day,
• 39. one in the morning and the other in the evening.
• 40. With one of them, offer two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil; also, offer one quart of wine as a drink offering.
• 41. Offer the other lamb in the evening, along with the same offerings of flour and wine as in the morning. It will be a fragrant offering to the LORD, an offering made by fire.
• 42. "This is to be a daily burnt offering given from generation to generation. Offer it in the LORD's presence at the Tabernacle entrance, where I will meet you and speak with you.
• 43. I will meet the people of Israel there, and the Tabernacle will be sanctified by my glorious presence.
• 44. Yes, I will make the Tabernacle and the altar most holy, and I will set apart Aaron and his sons as holy, that they may be my priests.
• 45. I will live among the people of Israel and be their God,
• 46. and they will know that I am the LORD their God. I am the one who brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.

John 9

• 1. As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
• 2. "Teacher," his disciples asked him, "why was this man born blind? Was it a result of his own sins or those of his parents?"
• 3. "It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "He was born blind so the power of God could be seen in him.
• 4. All of us must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me, because there is little time left before the night falls and all work comes to an end.
• 5. But while I am still here in the world, I am the light of the world."
• 6. Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smoothed the mud over the blind man's eyes.
• 7. He told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing!
• 8. His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, "Is this the same man--that beggar?"
• 9. Some said he was, and others said, "No, but he surely looks like him!" And the beggar kept saying, "I am the same man!"
• 10. They asked, "Who healed you? What happened?"
• 11. He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash off the mud.' I went and washed, and now I can see!"
• 12. "Where is he now?" they asked. "I don't know," he replied.
• 13. Then they took the man to the Pharisees.
• 14. Now as it happened, Jesus had healed the man on a Sabbath.
• 15. The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes, and when it was washed away, I could see!"
• 16. Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath." Others said, "But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?" So there was a deep division of opinion among them.
• 17. Then the Pharisees once again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, "This man who opened your eyes--who do you say he is?" The man replied, "I think he must be a prophet."
• 18. The Jewish leaders wouldn't believe he had been blind, so they called in his parents.
• 19. They asked them, "Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he see?"
• 20. His parents replied, "We know this is our son and that he was born blind,
• 21. but we don't know how he can see or who healed him. He is old enough to speak for himself. Ask him."
• 22. They said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.
• 23. That's why they said, "He is old enough to speak for himself. Ask him."
• 24. So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, "Give glory to God by telling the truth, because we know Jesus is a sinner."
• 25. "I don't know whether he is a sinner," the man replied. "But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!"
• 26. "But what did he do?" they asked. "How did he heal you?"
• 27. "Look!" the man exclaimed. "I told you once. Didn't you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"
• 28. Then they cursed him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• 29. We know God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don't know anything about him."
• 30. "Why, that's very strange!" the man replied. "He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know anything about him!
• 31. Well, God doesn't listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
• 32. Never since the world began has anyone been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
• 33. If this man were not from God, he couldn't do it."
• 34. "You were born in sin!" they answered. "Are you trying to teach us?" And they threw him out of the synagogue.
• 35. When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
• 36. The man answered, "Who is he, sir, because I would like to."
• 37. "You have seen him," Jesus said, "and he is speaking to you!"
• 38. "Yes, Lord," the man said, "I believe!" And he worshiped Jesus.
• 39. Then Jesus told him, "I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind."
• 40. The Pharisees who were standing there heard him and asked, "Are you saying we are blind?"
• 41. "If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

Proverbs 6

• 1. My child, if you co-sign a loan for a friend or guarantee the debt of someone you hardly know--
• 2. if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said--
• 3. quick, get out of it if you possibly can! You have placed yourself at your friend's mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.
• 4. Don't put it off. Do it now! Don't rest until you do.
• 5. Save yourself like a deer escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.
• 6. Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise!
• 7. Even though they have no prince, governor, or ruler to make them work,
• 8. they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
• 9. But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? I want you to learn this lesson:
• 10. A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
• 11. and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
• 12. Here is a description of worthless and wicked people: They are constant liars,
• 13. signaling their true intentions to their friends by making signs with their eyes and feet and fingers.
• 14. Their perverted hearts plot evil. They stir up trouble constantly.
• 15. But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond all hope of healing.
• 16. There are six things the LORD hates--no, seven things he detests:
• 17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
• 18. a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,
• 19. a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord among brothers.
• 20. My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's teaching.
• 21. Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.
• 22. Wherever you walk, their counsel can lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up in the morning, they will advise you.
• 23. For these commands and this teaching are a lamp to light the way ahead of you. The correction of discipline is the way to life.
• 24. These commands and this teaching will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman.
• 25. Don't lust for her beauty. Don't let her coyness seduce you.
• 26. For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, and sleeping with another man's wife may cost you your very life.
• 27. Can a man scoop fire into his lap and not be burned?
• 28. Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?
• 29. So it is with the man who sleeps with another man's wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.
• 30. Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving.
• 31. But if he is caught, he will be fined seven times as much as he stole, even if it means selling everything in his house to pay it back.
• 32. But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul.
• 33. Wounds and constant disgrace are his lot. His shame will never be erased.
• 34. For the woman's husband will be furious in his jealousy, and he will have no mercy in his day of vengeance.
• 35. There is no compensation or bribe that will satisfy him.

New Living Translation: 78 of 365 days.