Reading the Bible in One Year as One Story
Bible Readings 2026, Week 6; Feb.2-8
Verse of the week to live by:
“I am the Lord, your healer.” (Exod.15:26)
Feb.2; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 13-15
1. Ex. 13:1-2; “The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”
Why did God command Israel to consecrate the firstborn?
2. Ex. 14:19; “Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.”
Who is the Angel of God in this passage, and how is He related to the pillar of cloud that leads and protects God’s people?
3. Ex. 15:25; “And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.”
In what way does the log shown by the LORD in Exodus 15:25 typologically anticipate the cross of Christ, through which bitterness is transformed into life and healing?
Feb.3; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 16-18
1. Ex. 16:14-16; “And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’”
Where in the New Testament do we find Jesus fulfilling this passage?
2. Ex.17:7; “And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
What is the meaning and significance of the names Massah and Meribah in this passage?
3. Ex. 18:2-4; “Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home, 3 along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”), 4 and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”)
How do the names of Moses’ sons—Gershom and Eliezer—express Moses’ experience of exile, deliverance, and God’s faithfulness?
Feb.4; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 19-22
1. Ex.19:6; “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
What does it mean for God’s people to be called “a kingdom of priests,” and how does this calling shape their identity and mission?
2. Ex. 20:4-5; “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.”
How does the prohibition against carved images in this commandment relate to the Christian use of images, particularly pictures of Jesus
3. Ex. 21:2-3; “When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.”
How should we understand this passage in relation to slavery—does it permit it, regulate it, or challenge it?
Feb.5; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex 23-25
1. Ex. 23:14; “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.”
What are the three yearly feasts commanded by the LORD, and how do they mark Israel’s life with God?
2. Ex. 24:7; “Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
What is the book of the covenant?
3. Ex. 24:11; “And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.”
What is the significant of “they beheld God, and ate and drink?”
Feb.6; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 26-28
1. Ex. 26:35; “And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you shall put the table on the north side.”
What is this table?
2. Ex. 28:1-2; “Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Why did the LORD appoint Aaron and his household as priests, and what does this reveal about God’s purposes for mediation and worship?
3. Ex. 28:29; “So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the Lord.”
Why did the LORD command Aaron to carry the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of judgment, and what does this symbolize about priestly mediation and representation?
Feb.7; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 29-31
1. Ex.29:10; “Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.”
Why does God command Aaron and his sons to lay their hands on the live sacrifice, and what does this act signify about identification, substitution, and atonement?
2. Ex. 29:14; “But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
What does the burning of the sin offering outside the camp signify in Israel’s sacrificial system, and how is this fulfilled in Christ’s suffering outside the city (Matt. 27:32; Heb. 13:12)?
3. Ex.31:1-5; “The Lord said to Moses, 2 “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 5 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft.”
How does God’s filling of Bezalel with the Spirit of God help us understand the role of the Holy Spirit in empowering individuals before Pentecost?
February 8; Stage 3: Redemption
Ex. 32-35
1. Ex.32:11-13; “Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
Did God hear Moses’ prayer in this passage?
2. Ex. 33:11; “Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent
What does Moses’ “face-to-face” encounter with the LORD reveal about covenant intimacy and mediated revelation, and how does it prepare us for the fuller revelation of God in Christ?
3. Ex. 34:10; “Behold, I am making a covenant.”
How does this declaration—“Behold, I am making a covenant”—fit within the broader covenant story of Scripture?