WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.320 Day 100 and 58 00:00:04.550 --> 00:00:08.360 then Moses and the leaders of Israel gave this charge to the people. 00:00:09.140 --> 00:00:11.990 Obey all these commands that I am giving you today. 00:00:12.620 --> 00:00:16.160 When you cross the Jordan River and enter the land, the Lord your 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:20.930 God is giving you set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. 00:00:21.650 --> 00:00:23.900 Write this whole body of instruction on them. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:27.680 When you cross the river to enter the land, the Lord your God is giving you. 00:00:28.295 --> 00:00:32.615 A land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord the God of your 00:00:32.615 --> 00:00:37.355 ancestors promised you when you cross the Jordan, set up these stones 00:00:37.355 --> 00:00:41.915 at Mount Evil and coat them with plaster as I am commanding you today. 00:00:42.845 --> 00:00:45.425 Then build an altar there to the Lord your God. 00:00:45.725 --> 00:00:51.635 Using natural, uncut stones, you must not shape the stones with an iron tool. 00:00:52.175 --> 00:00:55.805 Build the altar of uncut stones and use it to offer burnt 00:00:55.805 --> 00:00:57.695 offerings to the Lord your God. 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:02.300 Also sacrifice peace offerings on it and celebrate by feasting 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:04.160 there before the Lord your God. 00:01:04.820 --> 00:01:07.190 You must clearly write all these instructions on the 00:01:07.190 --> 00:01:08.930 stones coated with plaster. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:16.580 Then Moses and the Levitical priests addressed all Israel as follows, O Israel. 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:18.380 Be quiet and listen. 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.410 Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. 00:01:22.565 --> 00:01:26.585 So you must obey the Lord your God by keeping all these commands and 00:01:26.585 --> 00:01:28.445 decrees that I am giving you today. 00:01:29.885 --> 00:01:32.945 That same day, Moses also gave this charge to the people. 00:01:33.665 --> 00:01:39.185 When you cross the Jordan River, the tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah, 00:01:39.215 --> 00:01:45.155 Iscar, Joseph and Benjamin must stand on Mount Garrison to proclaim 00:01:45.155 --> 00:01:46.625 a blessing over the people. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:54.440 The tribes of Reuben Gadd, Asher Zein, Dan and Naftali must stand 00:01:54.440 --> 00:01:56.630 on Mount Evil to proclaim a curse. 00:01:57.650 --> 00:02:00.680 Then the Levites will shout to all the people of Israel. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:05.720 Cursed is anyone who carves or casts an idol and secretly sets it up. 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:10.070 These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the Lord 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:12.320 and all the people will reply. 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:13.310 Amen. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:19.070 Cursed is anyone who dishonor his father or mother, and all the people will reply. 00:02:19.430 --> 00:02:24.770 Amen cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary 00:02:24.770 --> 00:02:27.560 marker and all the people will reply. 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:32.031 Amen cursed is anyone who leads a blind person astray on the road 00:02:32.650 --> 00:02:34.430 and all the people will reply. 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:41.000 Amen cursed as anyone who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows. 00:02:41.705 --> 00:02:43.295 And all the people will reply. 00:02:43.805 --> 00:02:48.725 Amen cursed as anyone who has sexual intercourse with one of his father's 00:02:48.725 --> 00:02:53.645 wives, for he has violated his father, and all the people will reply. 00:02:54.035 --> 00:02:58.385 Amen cursed as anyone who has sexual intercourse with an animal, 00:02:58.985 --> 00:03:00.635 and all the people will reply. 00:03:00.785 --> 00:03:01.415 Amen. 00:03:02.225 --> 00:03:05.915 Cursed as anyone who has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether 00:03:05.915 --> 00:03:10.865 she is the daughter of his father or his mother, and all the people will reply. 00:03:11.165 --> 00:03:15.875 Amen cursed as anyone who has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law, 00:03:16.535 --> 00:03:18.095 and all the people will reply. 00:03:18.275 --> 00:03:22.205 Amen cursed as anyone who attacks a neighbor in secret, 00:03:22.805 --> 00:03:24.275 and all the people will reply. 00:03:24.635 --> 00:03:25.235 Amen. 00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:29.210 Cursed as anyone who accepts payment to kill an innocent person, 00:03:29.750 --> 00:03:31.280 and all the people will reply. 00:03:31.550 --> 00:03:37.280 Amen cursed as anyone who does not affirm and obey the terms of these instructions, 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:39.590 and all the people will reply. 00:03:40.190 --> 00:03:41.120 Amen. 00:03:42.980 --> 00:03:47.360 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.350 that I am giving you today, the Lord, your God will set you high 00:03:51.350 --> 00:03:53.090 above all the nations of the world. 00:03:53.630 --> 00:03:55.790 You will experience all these blessings. 00:03:56.030 --> 00:03:57.800 If you obey the Lord your God. 00:03:58.670 --> 00:04:01.010 Your towns and your fields will be blessed. 00:04:01.610 --> 00:04:04.070 Your children and your crops will be blessed. 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:07.760 The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. 00:04:08.270 --> 00:04:13.040 Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed wherever you go and 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:15.620 whatever you do, you will be blessed. 00:04:16.985 --> 00:04:19.715 The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. 00:04:20.195 --> 00:04:24.695 They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven. 00:04:25.475 --> 00:04:28.625 The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will 00:04:28.625 --> 00:04:30.785 fill your storehouses with grain. 00:04:31.745 --> 00:04:34.925 The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. 00:04:35.825 --> 00:04:40.145 If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways, 00:04:40.835 --> 00:04:45.215 the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do. 00:04:46.265 --> 00:04:50.675 Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the 00:04:50.675 --> 00:04:53.945 Lord and they will stand in awe of you. 00:04:55.085 --> 00:04:59.645 The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give 00:04:59.645 --> 00:05:05.255 you blessing you with many children, numerous livestock and abundant crops. 00:05:06.155 --> 00:05:09.965 The Lord will send rain the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens 00:05:10.325 --> 00:05:11.705 and will bless all the work you do. 00:05:12.695 --> 00:05:16.715 You will end to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them. 00:05:17.405 --> 00:05:21.245 If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving 00:05:21.250 --> 00:05:26.525 you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head 00:05:26.825 --> 00:05:31.265 and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom. 00:05:32.075 --> 00:05:36.095 You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor 00:05:36.095 --> 00:05:38.495 follow after other gods and worship them. 00:05:39.980 --> 00:05:44.630 But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and do not obey all the commands 00:05:44.630 --> 00:05:50.210 and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you. 00:05:51.290 --> 00:05:53.570 Your towns and your fields will be cursed. 00:05:54.050 --> 00:05:56.570 Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed. 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.810 Your children and your crops will be cursed. 00:06:00.530 --> 00:06:05.330 The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed wherever you go. 00:06:05.510 --> 00:06:08.210 And whatever you do, you will be cursed. 00:06:09.410 --> 00:06:13.430 The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion and 00:06:13.430 --> 00:06:15.440 frustration in everything you do. 00:06:16.070 --> 00:06:18.440 Until at last, you are completely destroyed for 00:06:18.445 --> 00:06:20.690 doing evil and abandoning me. 00:06:21.380 --> 00:06:23.720 The Lord will afflict you with diseases. 00:06:23.900 --> 00:06:27.890 Until none of you are left in the land, you are about to enter and occupy. 00:06:28.610 --> 00:06:33.620 The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever and inflammation, 00:06:34.130 --> 00:06:38.330 with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. 00:06:38.975 --> 00:06:41.945 These disasters will pursue you until you die. 00:06:42.845 --> 00:06:46.505 The skies above will be as unyielding, as bronze, and the earth 00:06:46.505 --> 00:06:48.335 beneath will be as hard as iron. 00:06:49.115 --> 00:06:52.355 The Lord will change the rain that falls on your land into powder 00:06:52.865 --> 00:06:56.375 and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed. 00:06:57.395 --> 00:07:00.035 The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. 00:07:00.635 --> 00:07:03.365 You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you 00:07:03.365 --> 00:07:05.195 will scatter from them in seven. 00:07:05.990 --> 00:07:09.770 You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 00:07:10.550 --> 00:07:15.080 Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging, birds and wild animals, and 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:16.910 no one will be there to chase them away. 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:23.150 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and 00:07:23.150 --> 00:07:25.490 the itch from which you cannot be cured. 00:07:26.330 --> 00:07:30.350 The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. 00:07:31.130 --> 00:07:35.060 You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:37.910 darkness, but you will not find your way. 00:07:38.510 --> 00:07:42.230 You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no 00:07:42.230 --> 00:07:43.640 one will come to save you. 00:07:44.630 --> 00:07:48.740 You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. 00:07:49.520 --> 00:07:52.340 You'll build a house, but someone else will live in it. 00:07:52.970 --> 00:07:56.450 You'll plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit. 00:07:57.245 --> 00:08:00.755 Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you will not 00:08:00.755 --> 00:08:02.225 eat a single bite of a meat. 00:08:02.945 --> 00:08:06.485 Your donkey will be taken from you never to be returned. 00:08:07.175 --> 00:08:10.685 Your sheep and goats will be given to your enemies and no 00:08:10.685 --> 00:08:12.245 one will be there to help you. 00:08:12.935 --> 00:08:17.405 You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. 00:08:18.185 --> 00:08:22.205 Your heart will break for them, but you won't be able to help them. 00:08:22.970 --> 00:08:26.270 A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops 00:08:26.270 --> 00:08:27.740 you worked so hard to grow. 00:08:28.520 --> 00:08:32.120 You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment. 00:08:32.810 --> 00:08:36.110 You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you. 00:08:36.710 --> 00:08:40.430 The Lord will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. 00:08:41.060 --> 00:08:43.610 In fact, you will be covered from head to foot. 00:08:44.660 --> 00:08:49.080 The Lord will exile you and your king to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:54.050 There in exile, you will worship gods of wood and stone. 00:08:54.680 --> 00:08:59.600 You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.850 nations to which the Lord sends you. 00:09:02.570 --> 00:09:07.130 You will plant much, but harvest little for locusts will eat your crops. 00:09:07.670 --> 00:09:10.760 You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not 00:09:10.760 --> 00:09:12.620 drink the wine or eat the grapes. 00:09:12.890 --> 00:09:14.990 For worms will destroy the vines. 00:09:15.650 --> 00:09:18.050 You will grow olive trees throughout your land. 00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:20.960 But you will never use the olive oil for. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.030 The fruit will drop before it ripens. 00:09:24.050 --> 00:09:27.890 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them for they 00:09:27.895 --> 00:09:29.690 will be led away into captivity. 00:09:30.350 --> 00:09:33.740 Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops. 00:09:34.050 --> 00:09:38.270 The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger 00:09:38.630 --> 00:09:40.970 while you become weaker and weaker. 00:09:41.765 --> 00:09:44.765 They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. 00:09:45.335 --> 00:09:48.545 They will be the head and you will be the tale. 00:09:49.805 --> 00:09:53.735 If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and to obey the commands 00:09:53.735 --> 00:09:57.845 and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and 00:09:57.845 --> 00:10:00.755 overtake you until you are destroyed. 00:10:01.745 --> 00:10:05.285 These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you 00:10:05.285 --> 00:10:06.665 and your descendants forever. 00:10:07.325 --> 00:10:12.185 If you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the 00:10:12.185 --> 00:10:15.935 abundant benefits you have received, you will serve your enemies whom 00:10:15.935 --> 00:10:17.525 the Lord will send against you. 00:10:18.455 --> 00:10:23.495 You'll be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. 00:10:24.095 --> 00:10:28.205 The Lord will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly 00:10:28.415 --> 00:10:29.945 until he has destroyed you. 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:35.540 The Lord will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth and 00:10:35.540 --> 00:10:37.850 it will swoop down on you like a vulture. 00:10:38.570 --> 00:10:43.340 It is a nation whose language you do not understand, A fierce and heartless 00:10:43.345 --> 00:10:47.450 nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. 00:10:48.230 --> 00:10:52.820 Its armies will devour your livestock and crops and you will be destroyed. 00:10:53.645 --> 00:10:58.325 They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, 00:10:58.625 --> 00:10:59.945 and you will starve to death. 00:11:00.605 --> 00:11:04.385 They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land, 00:11:04.715 --> 00:11:06.305 the walls you trusted to protect. 00:11:06.305 --> 00:11:07.925 You are knocked down. 00:11:08.585 --> 00:11:10.715 They will attack all the towns and the land. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.365 The Lord your God has given you the siege and terrible distress of the enemy's 00:11:15.365 --> 00:11:20.045 attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters 00:11:20.225 --> 00:11:22.055 whom the Lord your God has given you. 00:11:22.865 --> 00:11:26.675 The most tender-hearted man among you will have no compassion for 00:11:26.675 --> 00:11:30.695 his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. 00:11:31.325 --> 00:11:33.425 He will refuse to share with them the flash. 00:11:33.430 --> 00:11:37.925 He is devouring the flash of one of his own children because he has nothing 00:11:37.930 --> 00:11:42.035 else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will 00:11:42.035 --> 00:11:46.505 inflict on all your towns, the most tender and delicate woman among you. 00:11:46.865 --> 00:11:47.615 So delicate. 00:11:47.615 --> 00:11:50.045 She would not so much as touch the ground with her foot. 00:11:50.735 --> 00:11:55.385 Will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. 00:11:56.075 --> 00:12:00.095 She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has born so that 00:12:00.095 --> 00:12:02.405 she herself can secretly eat them. 00:12:03.275 --> 00:12:07.745 She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your 00:12:07.750 --> 00:12:09.875 enemy will inflict on all your towns. 00:12:10.985 --> 00:12:14.375 If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this 00:12:14.375 --> 00:12:19.835 book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the Lord your God. 00:12:20.540 --> 00:12:25.370 And then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.820 These plagues will be intense and without relief making you miserable and unbearably 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:36.500 sick, he will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared 00:12:36.505 --> 00:12:38.750 so much and you will have no relief. 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:41.960 The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague. 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.470 There is even those not mentioned in this book of instruction 00:12:45.620 --> 00:12:47.150 until you are destroyed. 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.160 Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you 00:12:52.160 --> 00:12:55.490 will be left because you would not listen to the Lord your God. 00:12:56.390 --> 00:13:00.260 Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper 00:13:00.290 --> 00:13:04.550 and multiply, the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you. 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:10.220 You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy for the Lord 00:13:10.220 --> 00:13:13.820 will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. 00:13:14.645 --> 00:13:19.505 There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known. 00:13:19.925 --> 00:13:24.485 God's made of wood and stone there among those nations. 00:13:24.725 --> 00:13:29.555 You will find no peace or place to rest, and the Lord will cause your 00:13:29.555 --> 00:13:34.865 heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair. 00:13:35.675 --> 00:13:38.015 Your life will constantly hang in the balance. 00:13:38.555 --> 00:13:40.775 You will live night and day in fear. 00:13:40.955 --> 00:13:42.995 Unsure if you will survive. 00:13:43.745 --> 00:13:48.065 In the morning you will say, if only it were night, and in the evening 00:13:48.065 --> 00:13:53.405 you will say, if only it were morning for you will be terrified by the 00:13:53.405 --> 00:13:55.205 awful horrors you see around you. 00:13:55.985 --> 00:14:00.545 Then the Lord will send you back to Egyptian ships to a destination I promised 00:14:00.545 --> 00:14:05.765 you would never see again There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies 00:14:05.765 --> 00:14:09.215 as slaves, but no one will buy you. 00:14:11.110 --> 00:14:13.925 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:14:14.075 --> 00:14:15.275 Thank you for joining us.