Contemplative Bible Reading

Genesis 27:27-29 (New Living Translation) 27 So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the Lord has blessed! 28 “From the dew […]

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Genesis 22:18 (New Living Translation) 18 And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me. An angel is talking to Abraham. Abraham had just followed God’s instructions to take his miracle son Isaac to a remote place and literally sacrifice the boy. Abraham showed faith—showed that […]

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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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Numbers 16:12-13 (New Living Translation) 12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We refuse to come before you! 13 Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat […]

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Leviticus 5:3 (New Living Translation) 3 Or suppose you unknowingly touch something that makes a person unclean. When you realize what you have done, you must admit your guilt. Look at this part of the law given in Leviticus. The phrase “you must admit your guilt” is repeated often. Later, people are told to confess […]

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Exodus 34:28 (New Living Translation) 28 Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments—on the stone tablets. Moses is on Mt Sinai with Jehovah God. Jehovah […]

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Ezekiel 34:5-6 (New Living Translation) 5 So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd, and they are easy prey for any wild animal. 6 They have wandered through all the mountains and all the hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them. God is talking to […]

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Exodus 32:27-28 (New Living Translation) 27 Moses told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each of you, take your swords and go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. Kill everyone—even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.” 28 The Levites obeyed Moses’ command, and about 3,000 […]

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