Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Samuel 3:17-18 (New Living Translation) 17 “What did the Lord say to you? Tell me everything. And may God strike you and even kill you if you hide anything from me!”18 So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn’t hold anything back. “It is the Lord’s will,” Eli replied. “Let him do what he thinks best.” Sometimes even […]

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Numbers 35:33 (New Living Translation) This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no sacrifice except the execution of the murderer can purify the land from murder. Murder reaches farther than the death of one person. As this verse tells us, it pollutes the […]

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Judges 10:15 (New Living Translation) But the Israelites pleaded with the LORD and said, “We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies.” People are short sighted – all of us. But really, consider the above verse. The Israelites were being tormented by their enemies. This torment was […]

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Deuteronomy 1:1-3 (New Living Translation) 1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other. 2 Normally it […]

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Deuteronomy 31:12 New International Version – Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law. New Living Translation – Call them all together—men, women, children, and the foreigners living in your towns—so they […]

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Deuteronomy 8:19-20 (New Living Translation) 19 “But I assure you of this: If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, you will certainly be destroyed. 20 Just as the LORD has destroyed other nations in your path, you also will be destroyed if you refuse to […]

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Numbers 31:1-2 (New Living Translation) 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “On behalf of the people of Israel, take revenge on the Midianites for leading them into idolatry. After that, you will die and join your ancestors.” I was once associated with a contract in which many employees were told, “Work faster to finish […]

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Numbers 5:6 (New Living Translation) “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people—men or women—betray the LORD by doing wrong to another person, they are guilty. Have I done something wrong to another person? Yes. Do I sometimes do something wrong to another person? Well, yes, but not as […]

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Genesis 2:15-17 (New Living Translation) 15 The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its […]

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