Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 28:20 (New International Version 2011) The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. I work as an engineer and a manager of engineering projects. In these […]

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Deuteronomy 4:15-18 (New International Version 2011) 15 Since the Lord spoke to you from the fire at Mount Sinai, but you did not see him, watch yourselves carefully!16 Don’t sin by making idols of any kind, and don’t make statues—of men or women,17 of animals on earth or birds that fly in the air,18 of […]

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Deuteronomy 32:28-29 (New English Translation) 28 They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them. 29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.” God’s people are about to enter the Promised Land. Moses will not enter with […]

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Deuteronomy 18:9-11 (New International Version) 9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages […]

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Deuteronomy 34:5-8 (New International Version) 5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. 6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when […]

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Deuteronomy 20:19 (New International Version) When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege […]

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Deuteronomy 20:8 (New International Version) 8 Then the officers shall add, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too.” In this and the surrounding verses, God is instructing His people on how to build an army when they need one. There are several situations […]

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Deuteronomy 17:18-20 (New International Version) 18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his […]

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Deuteronomy 10:12-13 (New International Version) 12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the […]

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Deuteronomy 22:1-3 (New International Version) 1 If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him. 2 If the brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, take it home with you and keep it until he […]

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