Contemplative Bible Reading

Leviticus 26:6 (New Living Translation) 6 “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land. This is a promise from God to the people if they “follow my […]

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Leviticus 17:7 (Christian Standard Bible) 7 They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations. And now we have the goat-demons. It appears that God’s people had been offering sacrifices to these goat-demons. The people had done […]

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Exodus 2:11-12 (New Living Translation) 11 Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews. 12 After looking in all directions to make […]

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Leviticus 20:8 (Christian Standard Bible) 8 Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sets you apart. The people of God are different. They were different in the Old Testament times and, I believe we are different from the rest of the people in the world today. Note, I am not writing […]

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Genesis 21:17 (New Living Translation) 17 But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “Hagar, what’s wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. This is part of the (hi)story of Hagar fleeing the household of Abraham with her son […]

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Leviticus 7:12 (New English Translation) 12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank-offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well-soaked, ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil. I was reading the New English Translation when […]

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Exodus 7:22 (New Living Translation) 22 But again the magicians of Egypt used their magic, and they, too, turned water into blood. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard. He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted. This is part of the (hi)story of Moses’ negotiations with Pharaoh and the attempts […]

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Luke 1:51-54 (New Living Translation) 51 His mighty arm has done tremendous things!He has scattered the proud and haughty ones.52 He has brought down princes from their thronesand exalted the humble.53 He has filled the hungry with good thingsand sent the rich away with empty hands.54 He has helped his servant Israeland remembered to be […]

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Ezra 9:2 (New Living Translation) 2 For the men of Israel have married women from these people and have taken them as wives for their sons. So the holy race has become polluted by these mixed marriages. Worse yet, the leaders and officials have led the way in this outrage. Notice the second sentence: So […]

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Jeremiah 40:2-3 (New Living Translation) 2 The captain of the guard (Nebuzaradan) called for Jeremiah and said, “The Lord your God has brought this disaster on this land, 3 just as he said he would. For these people have sinned against the Lord and disobeyed him. That is why it happened. The Babylonians have captured […]

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