Daily Bread for Kids

This week's portion is called Shmot (Names) TORAH PORTION: Exodus 2:11–25 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 28:1–20 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish...

This week's portion is called Shmot (Names) TORAH PORTION: Exodus 1:18–2:10 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 27:57–66 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish context! THE K...

This week's portion is called Shmot (Names) TORAH PORTION: Exodus 1:1–17 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 27:32–56 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish...

This week's portion is called VaYechi (He lived) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 50:21–26 HAFTARAH: 1 Kings 2:1–12 APOSTLES: Revelation 7:1–8 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while...

This week's portion is called VaYechi (He lived) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 49:27–50:20 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 27:15–31 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish contex...

Today in History: The Prophet Ezekiel received a prophecy against the kingdom of Egypt. God gave him seven prophecies against Egypt and almost all of them mention the date (see Ezekiel 29–32). “In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying, ‘Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all...

This week's portion is called VaYechi (He lived) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 49:1–18 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 26:57–75 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its...

Today in History: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with his whole army and began the siege against Jerusalem (see 2 Kings 25:1). Far away in Babylon, God told the Prophet Ezekiel that the siege to destroy Jerusalem had begun that day, and to write it down (see Ezekiel 24). Fast of Tevet (Asara BeTevet) is a shorter fast on the Jewish calendar and lasts from sunrise to sunset. It is one of four...

Today in History: The day the Apostle Shimon Kefa (Peter) bar Yonah was killed (according to Jewish tradition in Megillat Ta’anit, Orach Chaim 580). Christian traditions agree that Shimon was crucified in Rome during the time of Emperor Nero in 64 CE (3825). Yeshua had told him, “When you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put your belt on you, and bring you where you...

Today in History: In the year 246 BCE in Egypt, 72 Jewish scholars completed the Greek translation of the Torah for the Greek-Egyptian king Ptolemy II. The Greek Bible translation was later called the “Septuagint” which means ”seventy.” This week's portion is called VaYechi (He lived) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 47:28–48:9 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 26:1–25 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did...

This week's portion is called VaYigash (He drew near TORAH PORTION: Genesis 47:11–27 HAFTARAH: Ezekiel 37:15–28 APOSTLES: Acts 3:13–26 How does the Haftarah connect to this week's Torah Portion? How do the Apostles connect to this week's Torah Portion? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to s...

This week's portion is called VaYigash (He drew near TORAH PORTION: Genesis 46:28–47:10 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 25:24–46 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish co...

Today in History: Ezekiel the Prophet received a report in Babylon that Jerusalem has been captured by the Babylonians (see Ezekiel 33:21). “Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, ‘The city has been taken.’” Esther was made queen of the Persian Empire (see Esther 2:16–17). ”So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus to his...

This week's portion is called VaYigash (He drew near TORAH PORTION: Genesis 45:19–27 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 25:1–13 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering its Jewish contex...

This week's portion is called VaYigash (He drew near TORAH PORTION: Genesis 45:8–18 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 24:32–51 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Word, while also discovering...

This week's portion is called VaYigash (He drew near Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 15-16 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 44:31–45:7 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 23:15–31 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study G...

Today in History: Ezra the Scribe began to investigate the matter of foreign wives among Israel (see Ezra 10:16). ”So they convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.” Esther was made queen of the Persian Empire (see Esther 2:16–17). ”So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus to his royal palace in the tenth month which is the month [Tevet], in the seventh year of his reign...

This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 11-12 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 43:30–44:17 HAFTARAH: Zechariah 2:10[14]–4:7 APOSTLES: John 10:22–42 How does the Haftarah connect to this week's Torah Portion? How do the Apostles connect to this week's Torah Portion? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and th...

This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 9-10 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 43:16–29 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 23:13–39 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-reader...

Today in History: Possibly the day when the angel Gabriel visited Miriam (Yeshua's mother) in Nazareth, nine months before Rosh HaShanah and the fall feasts in the month Tishrei (see Luke 1:26–38). This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 7-8 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 42:19–43:15 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 23:1–12 What verse spoke to you most today and...

This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 5–6 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 41:53–42:18 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 22:34–46 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something you need to do in your life? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-read...

This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) Suggested Historical Reading: 1 Maccabees 3–4 TORAH PORTION: Genesis 41:39–52 GOSPEL PORTION: Matthew 22:15–33 What verse spoke to you most today and why? Did you learn something about God? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s Wo...

Today in History: Exactly three years after the Syrian Greeks had defiled the Holy Temple, the Maccabees recaptured it and dedicated it to the LORD again with a great celebration (see the historical book 1 Maccabees 4) Messiah visited the Holy Temple during Hanukkah (see John 10:22). “Then came Hanukkah; it was winter in Jerusalem. Yeshua was walking in the Temple around Solomon’s Colonnade...” (T...

Today in History: Haggai the Prophet received a prophecy to encourage the people and Zerubbabel the Governor to rebuild the Holy Temple (see Haggai 2:10–18). ”Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the Temple of the LORD was founded, consider...” This week's portion is called Miketz (At the end) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 41:1–14 GOSPEL PORTI...

This week's portion is called Vayeshev (He settled) TORAH PORTION: Genesis 40 HAFTARAH: Amos 2:6–3:8 APOSTLES: Acts 7:9–16 How does the Haftarah connect to this week's Torah Portion? How do the Apostles connect to this week's Torah Portion? Daily Bread for Kids is a daily Bible reading podcast where we read through the Torah and the Gospels in one year! Helping young Bible-readers to study God’s W...