Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

82 : Basic English : Numbers 32; Psalms 72 1. Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, a...

81 : Basic English : Numbers 31; Psalms 70,71 1. Then the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people. 3. So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them. 4. From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to...

80 : Basic English : Numbers 29,30; Psalms 69 1. In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns; 2. And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them: 3. And their meal offering, the best meal mix...

79 : Basic English : Numbers 27,28; Psalms 67,68 1. Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 2. They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent o...

78 : Basic English : Numbers 25,26; Psalms 66 1. Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: 2. For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. 3. So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: a...

77 : Basic English : Numbers 23,24; Psalms 64,65 1. And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep. 2. And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep. 3. Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will giv...

76 : Basic English : Numbers 21,22; Psalms 62,63 1. And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners. 2. Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. 3....

75 : Basic English : Numbers 19,20; Psalms 60,61 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put: 3. Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him. 4....

74 : Basic English : Numbers 17,18; Psalms 58,59 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod. 3. And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family. 4. And let...

73 : Basic English : Numbers 16; Psalms 56,57 1. Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready, 2. And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people. 3....

72 : Basic English : Numbers 15; Psalms 55 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place, 3. And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to th...

71 : Basic English : Numbers 14; Psalms 52,53,54 1. Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. 2. And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land! 3. Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wive...

70 : Basic English : Numbers 12,13; Psalms 51 1. Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife. 2. And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it. 3. Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth. 4. And sudden...

69 : Basic English : Numbers 10,11; Gospel of Mark 16 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. 3. When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. 4. If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thous...

68 : Basic English : Numbers 8,9; Gospel of Mark 15 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support. 3. And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 4. The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from i...

67 : Basic English : Numbers 7; Gospel of Mark 14 1. And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil; 2. Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered. 3. And they came...

66 : Basic English : Numbers 5,6; Gospel of Mark 13 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead; 3. Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them. 4....

65 : Basic English : Numbers 4; Gospel of Mark 12 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; 3. All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. 4. And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy th...

64 : Basic English : Numbers 2,3; Gospel of Mark 11 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side. 3. Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Ammi...

63 : Basic English : Leviticus 27; Numbers 1; Gospel of Mark 10 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord. 3. And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place. 4. And if it is a female, the...

62 : Basic English : Leviticus 26; Gospel of Mark 9 1. Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God. 2. Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord. 3. If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them, 4. Then I will give you rain at the right time,...

61 : Basic English : Leviticus 24,25; Gospel of Mark 8 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times, 3. Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your ge...

60 : Basic English : Leviticus 23; Gospel of Mark 7 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts. 3. On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living....

59 : Basic English : Leviticus 21,22; Gospel of Mark 6 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people; 2. But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother; 3. And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himsel...

58 : Basic English : Leviticus 19,20; Gospel of Mark 5 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. 3. Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4. Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God. 5. And w...