Contemplative Bible Reading

Judges 13:6 (New Living Translation) The woman ran and told her husband, “A man of God appeared to me! He looked like on of God’s angels, terrifying to see. I didn’t ask where he was from, and he didn’t tell me his name. We seem to think that angels are glorious. We show our children […]

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Deuteronomy 23:1-2 (New English Translation) 23:1 A man with crushed or severed genitals may not enter the assembly of the LORD. 23:2 A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the LORD; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. This is harsh. Certain people with physical differences […]

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Joshua 24:27 (New English Translation) Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.” Joshua tells the people that the stone heard what the LORD said. The […]

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Deuteronomy 12:1-3 (New English Translation) 12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess. 12:2 You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to […]

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Leviticus 26:36  (New Living Translation) And for those of you who survive, I will demoralize you in the land of your enemies. You will live in such fear that the sound of a leaf driven by the wind will send you fleeing. You will run as though fleeing from a sword, and you will fall […]

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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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