Contemplative Bible Reading

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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Deuteronomy 6:25 (New Living Translation) 25 For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has given us. This is from Deuteronomy or the second telling of the law to the people. Their ancestors died in the wilderness due to disobeying the commands of Jehovah their God. […]

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Deuteronomy 20:5-7 (New Living Translation) 5 “Then the officers of the army must address the troops and say, ‘Has anyone here just built a new house but not yet dedicated it? If so, you may go home! You might be killed in the battle, and someone else would dedicate your house. 6 Has anyone here […]

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Deuteronomy 10:11 (New Living Translation) 11 Then the Lord said to me, “Get up and resume the journey, and lead the people to the land I swore to give to their ancestors, so they may take possession of it.” Moses is reminding the people of the history of their passage from Egypt to the Promised […]

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Deuteronomy 2:25 (New Living Translation) 25 Beginning today I will make people throughout the earth terrified because of you. When they hear reports about you, they will tremble with dread and fear. God is speaking to the people through Moses. God made the peoples who were in the way of God’s people terrified. Those poor […]

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Deuteronomy 28:9-10 (New Living Translation) 9 “If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways, the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do. 10 Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the Lord, […]

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Deuteronomy 26:8 (English Standard Version) 8 And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders. There are times when God is terrifying. God appears in works of terror. Terror is a harsh word. I don’t recall times in my […]

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Deuteronomy 10: 18-19 (English Standard Version) 18 He (God) executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. In these verses, God is passing instructions to the people on how to treat sojourners. […]

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Deuteronomy 4:34 (New Living Translation) 34 Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes. […]

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Deuteronomy 1:16-17 (New Living Translation) 16 “At that time I instructed the judges, ‘You must hear the cases of your fellow Israelites and the foreigners living among you. Be perfectly fair in your decisions 17 and impartial in your judgments. Hear the cases of those who are poor as well as those who are rich. […]

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