Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 30:6 (New Living Translation) 6 “The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live! Jehovah God is talking to the people about the laws and the results of obedience and disobedience. […]

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Deuteronomy 28:20 (New Living Translation) 20 The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me. God is warning the people through Moses. There are curses to come for those who disobey the law God has decreed. […]

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Deuteronomy 13:10 (New Living Translation) 10 Stone the guilty ones to death because they have tried to draw you away from the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery. Moses is passing the law from God to the people. Earlier, Moses warned of people who would say, […]

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Deuteronomy 34:10-12 (New Living Translation) 10 There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. 11 The Lord sent him to perform all the miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, and all his servants, and his entire land. 12 With mighty power, […]

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Deuteronomy 32:20-21a (New Living Translation) 20 He said, ‘I will abandon them;then see what becomes of them.For they are a twisted generation,children without integrity.21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; God is speaking to the people through Moses. One condemnation about the people is that they are children without […]

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Deuteronomy 28:47-48 (New Living Translation) 47 If you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received, 48 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. The Lord will put an […]

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Deuteronomy 26:5 (New Living Translation) 5 “You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God, ‘My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt they became a large and mighty nation. God is speaking to the […]

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Deuteronomy 24:5 (New Living Translation) 5 “A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given any other official responsibilities. He must be free to spend one year at home, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.” These are the regulations to people were to follow. From time to time, […]

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Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (New Living Translation) 18 “Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him. 19 In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate. 20 The parents […]

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Deuteronomy 6:24 (New Living Translation) 24 And the Lord our God commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear him so he can continue to bless us and preserve our lives, as he has done to this day. Moses is delivering the law from God to the people. (The prior chapter listed the […]

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