Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.
2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,
3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;
4. But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
5. And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.
; AB church Lausanne

103 : Basic English : Joshua 1,2; Gospel of Luke 4 1. Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,
2. Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.
3. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.
4. From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.
5. While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.
; AB church Lausanne

102 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 33,34; Gospel of Luke 3 1. Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.
2. He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.
3. All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.
4. Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.
5. And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
; AB church Lausanne

101 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 31,32; Gospel of Luke 2 1. So Moses said all these things to Israel.
2. Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.
3. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.
4. The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.
5. The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.
; AB church Lausanne

100 : Basic English : Deuteronomy 29,30; Psalms 99,100; Gospel of Luke 1 1. These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.
2. And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;
3. The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:
4. But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
5. For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.
; AB church Lausanne