Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 7:1 (New Living Translation) When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you. Some military concepts: The defender […]

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Leviticus 21:9  (New Living Translation) If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father’s holiness, and she must be burned to death. In the Old Testament with the Israelites, capital punishment was performed by stoning the guilty person. The community would encircle the person and throw rocks until the […]

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Deuteronomy 6:20, 24 (New Living Translation) 20 “In the future your children will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the Lord our God has commanded us to obey?’ … 24 And the Lord our God commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear him so he […]

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Leviticus 19:31 (New Living Translation) Do not defile yourselves by turning to mediums or to those who consult the spirits of the dead. I am the Lord your God. By this verse, I infer that there were people who could consult the spirits of the dead. I am glad that in our (post or whatever adjective […]

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Deuteronomy 4:34 (New Living Translation) 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. Jehovah […]

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Deuteronomy 2:14-15 (New Living Translation) 14 “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen. 15 The Lord struck them down until they had all […]

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Numbers 22:4-8 (New Living Translation) 4 The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!” So Balak, king of Moab, 5 sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethornear the Euphrates River. […]

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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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Numbers 16:12-14 (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 us like […]

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Leviticus 7:21 (New Living Translation) If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community. Ever been cut off from a church? No big […]

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