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Read the Bible: Matthew 1

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3/4 of the Bible is the Old Testament. There is nothing I can do about that but we are going to break it up by switching back and forth. We will spend pretty much the entire month of June reading Matthew’s Gospel before getting back into the Old Testament at… Leviticus. Matthew tells Joseph’s side of the story of Jesus’s birth and has wise men. We will get to Luke’s account before Christmas which features Mary and the angels appearing to shepherds.

Matthew 1

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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Read the Bible: Genesis 10

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From time to time as we read through the Bible we will come upon chapters that are almost entirely genealogy. If you thought Genesis 9 had quite a bit then fasten your seat belt. I am not an expert in Hebrew names but many of these will at least be somewhat familiar if you know anything at all about cities, nations and empires in the Old Testament. If you have been with us for a few chapters then hopefully you have developed a routine of some sort. So open your Bible (or app, or web browser, what have you) and let’s read some names I can barely pronounce.