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Day 100 and 37
while they were at Hazera, Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because
he had married a Cushite woman.
They said, has the Lord spoken only through Moses?
Hasn't he spoken through us too?
But the Lord heard them.
Now Moses was very humble, more humble than any other person on Earth.
So immediately the Lord called to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam and said, go out
to the tabernacle, all three of you.
So the three of them went to the tabernacle.
Then the Lord descended in the pillar of cloud and stood at
the entrance of the tabernacle.
Aaron and Miriam.
He called and they stepped forward, and the Lord said to
them, now listen to what I say.
If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord would reveal myself in visions.
I would speak to them in dreams, but not with my servant Moses of all my house.
He is the one I trust.
I speak to him face to face clearly, and not in riddles.
He sees the Lord as he is.
So why were you not afraid to criticize my servant?
Moses?
The Lord was very angry with them and he departed.
As the cloud moved from above the tabernacle there stood Miriam.
Her skin as white as snow from leprosy.
When Aaron saw what had happened to her, he cried out to Moses, oh my master,
please don't punish us for this sin.
We have so foolishly committed.
Don't let her be like a stillborn baby already decayed at birth.
So Moses cried out to the Lord, oh God, I beg you.
Please heal her.
But the Lord said to Moses.
If her father had done nothing more than spit in her face, wouldn't
she be defiled for seven days?
So keep her outside the camp for seven days and after that
she may be accepted back.
So Miriam was kept outside the camp for seven days and the people
waited until she was brought back before they traveled again.
Then they left haze and camped in the wilderness of Parin.
The Lord now said to Moses, send out men to explore the land of Canaan.
The land I am giving to the Israelites send one leader from
each of the 12 ancestral tribes.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
He sent out 12 men, all tribal leaders of Israel from their
camp in the wilderness of paren.
These were the tribes and the names of their leaders.
Ruben Shaa, son of Zacker.
Simeon Shae, son of Hori, Judah, Caleb, son of Jauna Issachar.
Igel son of Joseph.
Ephraim Ho, son of none.
Benjamin Tai, son of Rafu.
Zabul.
Gaal.
Son of Sodi.
Manasa, son of Joseph.
Gaddi son of Sai Dan Amile, son of Gaal, Asher Cather, son of Michael Naftali,
NABE, son of Sai Gad Ul, son of Mei.
These are the names of the men Moses sent out to explore the land.
Moses called Ho, son of none by the name Joshua.
Moses gave the men these instructions as he sent them out to explore the
land, go north through the Negev into the hill country, see what the land
is like, and find out whether the people living there are strong or weak.
Few or many.
See what kind of land they live in.
Is it good or bad?
Do their towns have walls or are they unprotected, like open camps?
Is the soil fertile or poor?
Are there many trees?
Do your best to bring back samples of the crops.
You see, it happened to be the season for harvesting the first ripe grapes.
So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zen as far as
rehab near Libo, Hamoth going north.
They passed through the Negev and arrived at Hein where a hymen shi, shy
and talai all descendants of Anac lived.
The ancient town of Hein was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.
When they came to the Valley of Escal, they cut down a branch
with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to
carry it on a pole between them.
They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.
That place was called the Valley of esl, which means cluster.
Because of the cluster of grapes, the Israelite men cut there.
After exploring the land for 40 days, the men returned to Moses, Aaron, and
the whole community of Israel at Kadish.
In the wilderness of paren, they reported to the whole community what
they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
This was their report to Moses.
We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed
a bountiful country, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
But the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified.
We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anac.
The Amalekites live in the Negev and the Hittites.
Cytes and Amorites live in the hill country.
The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
and along the Jordan Valley.
But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses.
Let's go at once to take the land.
He said We can certainly conquer it, but the other men who had
explored the land with him disagreed.
We can't go up against them.
They're stronger than we are.
So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites.
The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there.
All the people we saw were huge.
We even saw giants there, the descendants of anac next to them,
we felt like grasshoppers, and that's what they thought too.
Then the whole community began weeping aloud and they cried all night.
Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron.
If only we had died in Egypt or even here in the wilderness, they complained.
Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle?
Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder.
Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt than they plotted among themselves?
Let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the
whole community of Israel.
Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua, son of none, and Caleb's
son of Jauna, tore their clothing.
They said to all the people of Israel, the land we traveled through
and explored is a wonderful land.
And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into
that land and give it to us.
It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
Do not rebel against the Lord, and don't be afraid of the people of the land.
They are only helpless.
Pray to us they have no protection, but the Lord is with us.
Don't be afraid of them.
But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua, Joshua, and Caleb.
Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites
at the tabernacle, and the Lord said to Moses, how long will these
people treat me with contempt?
Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I
have done among them, I will disown them and destroy them with a plague.
Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.
But Moses objected.
What will the Egyptians think when they hear about it?
He asked the Lord.
They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing
your people from Egypt.
Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants
of this land who have already heard that you live among your people.
They know, Lord, that you have appeared to your people face to face, and that
your pillar of cloud hovers over them.
They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day
and the pillar of fire by night.
Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that
have heard of your fame will say, the Lord was not able to bring them
into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.
Please Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed for you
said the Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving
every kind of sin and rebellion.
But he does not excuse the guilty.
He lays the sins of the parents upon their children.
The entire family is affected, even children in the third
and fourth generations.
In keeping with your magnificent unfailing love, please pardon the
sins of this people just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.
Then the Lord said, I will pardon them as you have requested.
But as surely as I live and as surely as the earth is filled with
the Lord's glory, not one of these people will ever enter that land.
They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed
both in Egypt and in the wilderness.
But again and again, they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.
They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors.
None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it, but
my servant Caleb, has a different attitude than the others have.
He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land.
He explored his descendants will possess their full share of that land.
Now turn around and don't go on toward the land where the
Amalekites and Canaanites live.
Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the
direction of the Red Sea.
Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, how long must I put
up with this wicked community?
And its complaints about me.
Yes, I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making against me.
Now tell them this.
As surely as I live declares the Lord, I will do to you.
The very things I heard you say, you will all drop dead in this wilderness
because you complained against me.
Every one of you who is 20 years old or older and was included
in the registration will die.
You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you.
The only exceptions will be Caleb's son of Jauna and Joshua, son of none.
You said your children would be carried off as plunder.
Well, I will bring them safely into the land and they will
enjoy what you have despised.
But as for you, you'll drop dead in this wilderness and your children
will be like shepherds wandering in the wild wilderness for 40 years.
In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness until the last of
you lies dead in the wilderness.
Because your men explored the land for 40 days, you must wander in the wilderness
for 40 years, a year, for each day suffering the consequences of your sins.
Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.
I, the Lord have spoken.
I will certainly do these things to every member of the community
who has conspired against me.
They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die.
The 10 men Moses had sent to explore the land, the ones who incited rebellion
against the Lord with their bad report were struck dead with a plague before the
Lord of the 12 who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
The, when Moses reported the Lord's words to all the Israelites, the
people were filled with grief.
Then they got up early the next morning and went to the top of the range of hills.
Let's go.
They said, we realize that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter
the land the Lord has promised us.
But Moses said, why are you now disobeying the Lord's orders
to return to the wilderness?
It won't work.
Do not go up in the land.
Now.
You will only be crushed by your enemies because the Lord is not with you.
When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle,
you'll be slaughtered.
The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord, but the people
defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country even though neither Moses nor the
Ark of the Lord's covenant left the camp.
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and
attacked them and chased them back.
As far as ho.
This concludes today's Immer reading experience.
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