IMON, OCT 5, 2026
2 Thessalonians 3: The Idle Are Warned, Then Called Brothers
Verse 10 gets quoted as a rule for other people. Read in order, 2 Thessalonians 3 ends up somewhere gentler than its most famous line.
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Leviticus 19: What the Owner Is Told Not to Finish
Leviticus 19 tells a landowner to leave the corners of his field alone. I read it the same week a neighbor asked me about my crabapples.
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IIISAT, OCT 3, 2026
D&C 107: Noah Was Ordained at Ten
Most of D&C 107 is offices and quorums, but the ages in verses 41 to 52 gave me more to think about than the org chart did.
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IVFRI, OCT 2, 2026
Alma 12: Antionah Asks About a Flaming Sword
Alma 12 gets remembered for the second death, but most of it is Alma answering a ruler's question about the flaming sword at the tree of life.
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VTHU, OCT 1, 2026
2 Thessalonians 2: Verse 2 Comes Before the Man of Sin
Everyone asks about the man of sin. I kept stopping at verse 2, where a message carries Paul's name, and at verse 15, where he says what to hold on to.
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VIWED, SEP 30, 2026
Leviticus 18: The Land Is the One That Spits Them Out
Leviticus 18 is a list of prohibitions, but the last seven verses are about the land. Here's what the chapter says and what it leaves unsaid.
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VIITUE, SEP 29, 2026
D&C 106: Six Verses for Warren and Two for Everyone Else
Section 106 is a short answer to a man's question about his work. Two of its eight verses are meant for somebody else, and I think that's on purpose.
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VIIIMON, SEP 28, 2026
Alma 11: Six Onties Is Forty-Two Days of a Judge's Pay
A reading chart calls the first twenty verses of Alma 11 optional. They are the only reason the bribe in verse 22 means anything, so I did the arithmetic.
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IXSUN, SEP 27, 2026
2 Thessalonians 1: One Sentence From Verse 3 to Verse 10
Someone told me 2 Thessalonians 1 is the chapter where God gets even. The first half of that sentence is thanks, and it's longer than I remembered.
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XSAT, SEP 26, 2026
Leviticus 17: Even the Hunter Has to Cover the Blood
Leviticus 17 is mostly about the altar, but verse 13 sends a hunter out alone with two jobs for the blood and nobody there to watch him do them.
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