Fr. Mike reads Genesis 20-21, Job 9-10, and Proverbs 2:6-8 and shows us how we can strive for holiness, even in the midst of sin and suffering. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
This is day 10, so let's get started. Today we'll be reading from Genesis chapter 20 and chapter 21. We'll also be reading Job chapter 9 and chapter 10, And we'll dip back into Proverbs, Proverbs chapter two, verses six through eight. As you know, the Bible translation that I'm reading is the revised standard version, Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
It's just fantastic. All the notes, especially as we journey through like the narrative books and like how everything fits together. There's some fantastic notes in the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension that is just super helpful. Also, if you have, regardless of what Bible you are using,
If you want a Bible in a Year reading plan so you can see it and follow along and know what's coming up in the future, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. For this podcast, you can probably subscribe. That way you'll get an alert every single day when this podcast gets uploaded.
And also for more alerts, if you want to sign up for our email list, you can text the word Catholic Bible. It's really two words, but we combine them together. All one word, Catholic Bible, to the number 3333. As I said today, we're going to be reading Genesis chapter 20 and chapter 21, the story of Abraham and Sarah at Gerar, the birth of Isaac, and the dramatic story of Hagar and Ishmael.
Genesis chapter 20, chapter 21. From there, Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negev and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said to Sarah, his wife, she is my sister. And Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife. Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, Lord, will you slay an innocent people? Did he not himself say to me, she is my sister? And she herself said, he is my brother.
In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands, I have done this. Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore, I did not let you touch her. Now then, restore the man's wife for he is a prophet and he will pray for you and you shall live.
But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours. So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things and the men were very much afraid. Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin?
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