Exodus 34

• 1. The LORD told Moses, "Prepare two stone tablets like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were on the tablets you smashed.
• 2. Be ready in the morning to come up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain.
• 3. No one else may come with you. In fact, no one is allowed anywhere on the mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze near the mountain."
• 4. So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the LORD had told him, carrying the two stone tablets in his hands.
• 5. Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and called out his own name, "the LORD," as Moses stood there in his presence.
• 6. He passed in front of Moses and said, "I am the LORD, I am the LORD, the merciful and gracious God. I am slow to anger and rich in unfailing love and faithfulness.
• 7. I show this unfailing love to many thousands by forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. Even so I do not leave sin unpunished, but I punish the children for the sins of their parents to the third and fourth generations."
• 8. Moses immediately fell to the ground and worshiped.
• 9. And he said, "If it is true that I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, then please go with us. Yes, this is an unruly and stubborn people, but please pardon our iniquity and our sins. Accept us as your own special possession."
• 10. The LORD replied, "All right. This is the covenant I am going to make with you. I will perform wonders that have never been done before anywhere in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people around you will see the power of the LORD--the awesome power I will display through you.
• 11. Your responsibility is to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then I will surely drive out all those who stand in your way--the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
• 12. "Be very careful never to make treaties with the people in the land where you are going. If you do, you soon will be following their evil ways.
• 13. Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash the sacred pillars they worship, and cut down their carved images.
• 14. You must worship no other gods, but only the LORD, for he is a God who is passionate about his relationship with you.
• 15. "Do not make treaties of any kind with the people living in the land. They are spiritual prostitutes, committing adultery against me by sacrificing to their gods. If you make peace with them, they will invite you to go with them to worship their gods, and you are likely to do it.
• 16. And you will accept their daughters, who worship other gods, as wives for your sons. Then they will cause your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.
• 17. You must make no gods for yourselves at all.
• 18. "Be sure to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days, just as I instructed you, at the appointed time each year in early spring, for that was when you left Egypt.
• 19. "Every firstborn male belongs to me--of both cattle and sheep.
• 20. A firstborn male donkey may be redeemed from the LORD by presenting a lamb in its place. But if you decide not to make the exchange, you must kill the donkey by breaking its neck. However, you must redeem every firstborn son. No one is allowed to appear before me without a gift.
• 21. "Six days are set aside for work, but on the Sabbath day you must rest, even during the seasons of plowing and harvest.
• 22. And you must remember to celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first crop of the wheat harvest, and celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season.
• 23. Three times each year all the men of Israel must appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
• 24. No one will attack and conquer your land when you go to appear before the LORD your God those three times each year. I will drive out the nations that stand in your way and will enlarge your boundaries.
• 25. "You must not offer bread made with yeast as a sacrifice to me. And none of the meat of the Passover lamb may be kept over until the following morning.
• 26. You must bring the best of the first of each year's crop to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
• 27. And the LORD said to Moses, "Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of my covenant with you and with Israel."
• 28. Moses was up on the mountain with the LORD forty days and forty nights. In all that time he neither ate nor drank. At that time he wrote the terms of the covenant--the Ten Commandments--on the stone tablets.
• 29. When Moses came down the mountain carrying the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, he wasn't aware that his face glowed because he had spoken to the LORD face to face.
• 30. And when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses' face, they were afraid to come near him.
• 31. But Moses called to them and asked Aaron and the community leaders to come over and talk with him.
• 32. Then all the people came, and Moses gave them the instructions the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
• 33. When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
• 34. But whenever he went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he removed the veil until he came out again. Then he would give the people whatever instructions the LORD had given him,
• 35. and the people would see his face aglow. Afterward he would put the veil on again until he returned to speak with the LORD.

John 14

• 1. "Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me.
• 2. There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly.
• 3. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.
• 4. And you know where I am going and how to get there."
• 5. "No, we don't know, Lord," Thomas said. "We haven't any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
• 6. Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
• 7. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him and have seen him!"
• 8. Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied."
• 9. Jesus replied, "Philip, don't you even yet know who I am, even after all the time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him?
• 10. Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.
• 11. Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of what you have seen me do.
• 12. "The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.
• 13. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father.
• 14. Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!
• 15. "If you love me, obey my commandments.
• 16. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, who will never leave you.
• 17. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you do, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.
• 18. No, I will not abandon you as orphans--I will come to you.
• 19. In just a little while the world will not see me again, but you will. For I will live again, and you will, too.
• 20. When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
• 21. Those who obey my commandments are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them, and I will love them. And I will reveal myself to each one of them."
• 22. Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, "Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?"
• 23. Jesus replied, "All those who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and live with them.
• 24. Anyone who doesn't love me will not do what I say. And remember, my words are not my own. This message is from the Father who sent me.
• 25. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you.
• 26. But when the Father sends the Counselor as my representative--and by the Counselor I mean the Holy Spirit--he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I myself have told you.
• 27. "I am leaving you with a gift--peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn't like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid.
• 28. Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, because now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am.
• 29. I have told you these things before they happen so that you will believe when they do happen.
• 30. "I don't have much more time to talk to you, because the prince of this world approaches. He has no power over me,
• 31. but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let's be going.

Proverbs 11

• 1. The LORD hates cheating, but he delights in honesty.
• 2. Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
• 3. Good people are guided by their honesty; treacherous people are destroyed by their dishonesty.
• 4. Riches won't help on the day of judgment, but right living is a safeguard against death.
• 5. The godly are directed by their honesty; the wicked fall beneath their load of sin.
• 6. The godliness of good people rescues them; the ambition of treacherous people traps them.
• 7. When the wicked die, their hopes all perish, for they rely on their own feeble strength.
• 8. God rescues the godly from danger, but he lets the wicked fall into trouble.
• 9. Evil words destroy one's friends; wise discernment rescues the godly.
• 10. The whole city celebrates when the godly succeed; they shout for joy when the godless die.
• 11. Upright citizens bless a city and make it prosper, but the talk of the wicked tears it apart.
• 12. It is foolish to belittle a neighbor; a person with good sense remains silent.
• 13. A gossip goes around revealing secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.
• 14. Without wise leadership, a nation falls; with many counselors, there is safety.
• 15. Guaranteeing a loan for a stranger is dangerous; it is better to refuse than to suffer later.
• 16. Beautiful women obtain wealth, and violent men get rich.
• 17. Your own soul is nourished when you are kind, but you destroy yourself when you are cruel.
• 18. Evil people get rich for the moment, but the reward of the godly will last.
• 19. Godly people find life; evil people find death.
• 20. The LORD hates people with twisted hearts, but he delights in those who have integrity.
• 21. You can be sure that evil people will be punished, but the children of the godly will go free.
• 22. A woman who is beautiful but lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
• 23. The godly can look forward to happiness, while the wicked can expect only wrath.
• 24. It is possible to give freely and become more wealthy, but those who are stingy will lose everything.
• 25. The generous prosper and are satisfied; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
• 26. People curse those who hold their grain for higher prices, but they bless the one who sells to them in their time of need.
• 27. If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!
• 28. Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves in spring.
• 29. Those who bring trouble on their families inherit only the wind. The fool will be a servant to the wise.
• 30. The godly are like trees that bear life-giving fruit, and those who save lives are wise.
• 31. If the righteous are rewarded here on earth, how much more true that the wicked and the sinner will get what they deserve!

New Living Translation: 83 of 365 days.