WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the Daily Bible reading Experience. 00:00:03.053 --> 00:00:04.513 Day 100 and 37 00:00:04.930 --> 00:00:09.610 while they were at Hazera, Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because 00:00:09.610 --> 00:00:11.200 he had married a Cushite woman. 00:00:11.740 --> 00:00:14.830 They said, has the Lord spoken only through Moses? 00:00:15.070 --> 00:00:16.930 Hasn't he spoken through us too? 00:00:17.770 --> 00:00:18.880 But the Lord heard them. 00:00:19.510 --> 00:00:24.160 Now Moses was very humble, more humble than any other person on Earth. 00:00:25.105 --> 00:00:30.055 So immediately the Lord called to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam and said, go out 00:00:30.055 --> 00:00:31.885 to the tabernacle, all three of you. 00:00:32.515 --> 00:00:34.465 So the three of them went to the tabernacle. 00:00:35.125 --> 00:00:38.635 Then the Lord descended in the pillar of cloud and stood at 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:40.135 the entrance of the tabernacle. 00:00:40.825 --> 00:00:42.235 Aaron and Miriam. 00:00:42.445 --> 00:00:46.315 He called and they stepped forward, and the Lord said to 00:00:46.315 --> 00:00:48.715 them, now listen to what I say. 00:00:49.645 --> 00:00:54.445 If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord would reveal myself in visions. 00:00:54.970 --> 00:01:00.880 I would speak to them in dreams, but not with my servant Moses of all my house. 00:01:00.940 --> 00:01:02.860 He is the one I trust. 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:07.510 I speak to him face to face clearly, and not in riddles. 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:10.480 He sees the Lord as he is. 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:14.170 So why were you not afraid to criticize my servant? 00:01:14.170 --> 00:01:14.710 Moses? 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:19.270 The Lord was very angry with them and he departed. 00:01:20.020 --> 00:01:23.980 As the cloud moved from above the tabernacle there stood Miriam. 00:01:24.340 --> 00:01:27.340 Her skin as white as snow from leprosy. 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:33.850 When Aaron saw what had happened to her, he cried out to Moses, oh my master, 00:01:34.390 --> 00:01:36.550 please don't punish us for this sin. 00:01:36.555 --> 00:01:38.200 We have so foolishly committed. 00:01:38.830 --> 00:01:42.640 Don't let her be like a stillborn baby already decayed at birth. 00:01:43.570 --> 00:01:46.810 So Moses cried out to the Lord, oh God, I beg you. 00:01:46.810 --> 00:01:48.010 Please heal her. 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:50.590 But the Lord said to Moses. 00:01:51.070 --> 00:01:55.270 If her father had done nothing more than spit in her face, wouldn't 00:01:55.270 --> 00:01:57.160 she be defiled for seven days? 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:01.780 So keep her outside the camp for seven days and after that 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:03.250 she may be accepted back. 00:02:04.690 --> 00:02:08.530 So Miriam was kept outside the camp for seven days and the people 00:02:08.530 --> 00:02:11.380 waited until she was brought back before they traveled again. 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:16.030 Then they left haze and camped in the wilderness of Parin. 00:02:18.130 --> 00:02:22.780 The Lord now said to Moses, send out men to explore the land of Canaan. 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.740 The land I am giving to the Israelites send one leader from 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:28.810 each of the 12 ancestral tribes. 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:31.690 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. 00:02:32.230 --> 00:02:36.100 He sent out 12 men, all tribal leaders of Israel from their 00:02:36.100 --> 00:02:37.930 camp in the wilderness of paren. 00:02:38.650 --> 00:02:41.200 These were the tribes and the names of their leaders. 00:02:42.190 --> 00:02:45.250 Ruben Shaa, son of Zacker. 00:02:46.495 --> 00:02:55.625 Simeon Shae, son of Hori, Judah, Caleb, son of Jauna Issachar. 00:02:56.415 --> 00:02:57.955 Igel son of Joseph. 00:02:59.035 --> 00:03:02.035 Ephraim Ho, son of none. 00:03:03.085 --> 00:03:06.265 Benjamin Tai, son of Rafu. 00:03:07.315 --> 00:03:07.735 Zabul. 00:03:08.635 --> 00:03:08.935 Gaal. 00:03:09.475 --> 00:03:10.465 Son of Sodi. 00:03:11.455 --> 00:03:12.745 Manasa, son of Joseph. 00:03:13.945 --> 00:03:25.525 Gaddi son of Sai Dan Amile, son of Gaal, Asher Cather, son of Michael Naftali, 00:03:26.425 --> 00:03:32.005 NABE, son of Sai Gad Ul, son of Mei. 00:03:33.985 --> 00:03:37.465 These are the names of the men Moses sent out to explore the land. 00:03:38.065 --> 00:03:41.725 Moses called Ho, son of none by the name Joshua. 00:03:43.015 --> 00:03:46.675 Moses gave the men these instructions as he sent them out to explore the 00:03:46.675 --> 00:03:51.835 land, go north through the Negev into the hill country, see what the land 00:03:51.835 --> 00:03:56.005 is like, and find out whether the people living there are strong or weak. 00:03:56.185 --> 00:03:57.355 Few or many. 00:03:57.955 --> 00:03:59.605 See what kind of land they live in. 00:04:00.175 --> 00:04:01.405 Is it good or bad? 00:04:01.945 --> 00:04:06.355 Do their towns have walls or are they unprotected, like open camps? 00:04:06.925 --> 00:04:08.845 Is the soil fertile or poor? 00:04:09.355 --> 00:04:10.435 Are there many trees? 00:04:11.035 --> 00:04:13.315 Do your best to bring back samples of the crops. 00:04:13.315 --> 00:04:17.935 You see, it happened to be the season for harvesting the first ripe grapes. 00:04:19.285 --> 00:04:23.635 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zen as far as 00:04:23.635 --> 00:04:27.175 rehab near Libo, Hamoth going north. 00:04:27.415 --> 00:04:32.395 They passed through the Negev and arrived at Hein where a hymen shi, shy 00:04:32.455 --> 00:04:35.335 and talai all descendants of Anac lived. 00:04:36.070 --> 00:04:41.020 The ancient town of Hein was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan. 00:04:41.830 --> 00:04:45.310 When they came to the Valley of Escal, they cut down a branch 00:04:45.310 --> 00:04:49.360 with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:51.160 carry it on a pole between them. 00:04:51.730 --> 00:04:55.150 They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs. 00:04:55.660 --> 00:04:59.650 That place was called the Valley of esl, which means cluster. 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.580 Because of the cluster of grapes, the Israelite men cut there. 00:05:04.690 --> 00:05:09.730 After exploring the land for 40 days, the men returned to Moses, Aaron, and 00:05:09.730 --> 00:05:12.070 the whole community of Israel at Kadish. 00:05:12.430 --> 00:05:16.300 In the wilderness of paren, they reported to the whole community what 00:05:16.300 --> 00:05:19.690 they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:22.180 This was their report to Moses. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.680 We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:30.280 a bountiful country, a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:05:30.850 --> 00:05:32.980 Here is the kind of fruit it produces. 00:05:33.805 --> 00:05:38.815 But the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified. 00:05:39.385 --> 00:05:42.745 We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anac. 00:05:43.315 --> 00:05:46.405 The Amalekites live in the Negev and the Hittites. 00:05:46.585 --> 00:05:49.675 Cytes and Amorites live in the hill country. 00:05:50.335 --> 00:05:53.335 The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea 00:05:53.695 --> 00:05:55.075 and along the Jordan Valley. 00:05:56.065 --> 00:05:59.425 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. 00:05:59.980 --> 00:06:02.290 Let's go at once to take the land. 00:06:02.350 --> 00:06:06.610 He said We can certainly conquer it, but the other men who had 00:06:06.610 --> 00:06:08.560 explored the land with him disagreed. 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:10.810 We can't go up against them. 00:06:10.930 --> 00:06:12.340 They're stronger than we are. 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:16.960 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites. 00:06:17.620 --> 00:06:22.090 The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. 00:06:22.630 --> 00:06:24.430 All the people we saw were huge. 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:29.500 We even saw giants there, the descendants of anac next to them, 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:33.070 we felt like grasshoppers, and that's what they thought too. 00:06:34.390 --> 00:06:38.710 Then the whole community began weeping aloud and they cried all night. 00:06:39.220 --> 00:06:43.570 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. 00:06:44.185 --> 00:06:48.955 If only we had died in Egypt or even here in the wilderness, they complained. 00:06:49.555 --> 00:06:53.845 Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? 00:06:54.235 --> 00:06:57.325 Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder. 00:06:57.865 --> 00:07:02.725 Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt than they plotted among themselves? 00:07:03.185 --> 00:07:06.265 Let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt. 00:07:07.255 --> 00:07:10.885 Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the 00:07:10.885 --> 00:07:12.325 whole community of Israel. 00:07:13.150 --> 00:07:17.560 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua, son of none, and Caleb's 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.900 son of Jauna, tore their clothing. 00:07:20.530 --> 00:07:24.250 They said to all the people of Israel, the land we traveled through 00:07:24.250 --> 00:07:26.470 and explored is a wonderful land. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.430 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into 00:07:30.430 --> 00:07:32.140 that land and give it to us. 00:07:32.650 --> 00:07:35.530 It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey. 00:07:36.235 --> 00:07:40.525 Do not rebel against the Lord, and don't be afraid of the people of the land. 00:07:40.705 --> 00:07:41.935 They are only helpless. 00:07:41.935 --> 00:07:46.705 Pray to us they have no protection, but the Lord is with us. 00:07:46.705 --> 00:07:48.085 Don't be afraid of them. 00:07:48.925 --> 00:07:52.855 But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua, Joshua, and Caleb. 00:07:53.725 --> 00:07:57.595 Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites 00:07:57.595 --> 00:08:02.275 at the tabernacle, and the Lord said to Moses, how long will these 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:04.045 people treat me with contempt? 00:08:04.525 --> 00:08:08.575 Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I 00:08:08.575 --> 00:08:13.195 have done among them, I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. 00:08:13.705 --> 00:08:17.515 Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are. 00:08:18.745 --> 00:08:19.915 But Moses objected. 00:08:20.845 --> 00:08:23.485 What will the Egyptians think when they hear about it? 00:08:23.935 --> 00:08:24.805 He asked the Lord. 00:08:25.435 --> 00:08:28.525 They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing 00:08:28.525 --> 00:08:29.575 your people from Egypt. 00:08:30.385 --> 00:08:35.035 Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants 00:08:35.035 --> 00:08:38.485 of this land who have already heard that you live among your people. 00:08:39.205 --> 00:08:43.225 They know, Lord, that you have appeared to your people face to face, and that 00:08:43.225 --> 00:08:45.265 your pillar of cloud hovers over them. 00:08:45.955 --> 00:08:48.955 They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day 00:08:48.955 --> 00:08:50.575 and the pillar of fire by night. 00:08:51.490 --> 00:08:55.900 Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that 00:08:55.900 --> 00:09:00.190 have heard of your fame will say, the Lord was not able to bring them 00:09:00.190 --> 00:09:04.570 into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness. 00:09:05.620 --> 00:09:10.780 Please Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed for you 00:09:10.780 --> 00:09:15.760 said the Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:17.740 every kind of sin and rebellion. 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:19.960 But he does not excuse the guilty. 00:09:20.350 --> 00:09:23.080 He lays the sins of the parents upon their children. 00:09:23.260 --> 00:09:26.920 The entire family is affected, even children in the third 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:28.210 and fourth generations. 00:09:28.660 --> 00:09:33.160 In keeping with your magnificent unfailing love, please pardon the 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:37.780 sins of this people just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt. 00:09:39.030 --> 00:09:43.360 Then the Lord said, I will pardon them as you have requested. 00:09:44.245 --> 00:09:48.625 But as surely as I live and as surely as the earth is filled with 00:09:48.625 --> 00:09:53.875 the Lord's glory, not one of these people will ever enter that land. 00:09:54.685 --> 00:09:59.335 They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed 00:09:59.340 --> 00:10:01.555 both in Egypt and in the wilderness. 00:10:01.825 --> 00:10:06.865 But again and again, they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice. 00:10:07.570 --> 00:10:11.740 They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. 00:10:12.310 --> 00:10:16.900 None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it, but 00:10:16.900 --> 00:10:20.710 my servant Caleb, has a different attitude than the others have. 00:10:21.130 --> 00:10:25.330 He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land. 00:10:25.330 --> 00:10:29.980 He explored his descendants will possess their full share of that land. 00:10:30.790 --> 00:10:34.030 Now turn around and don't go on toward the land where the 00:10:34.030 --> 00:10:35.740 Amalekites and Canaanites live. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:39.400 Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the 00:10:39.400 --> 00:10:40.750 direction of the Red Sea. 00:10:41.950 --> 00:10:45.820 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, how long must I put 00:10:45.820 --> 00:10:47.410 up with this wicked community? 00:10:47.650 --> 00:10:48.940 And its complaints about me. 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.080 Yes, I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making against me. 00:10:53.695 --> 00:10:54.895 Now tell them this. 00:10:55.495 --> 00:10:59.665 As surely as I live declares the Lord, I will do to you. 00:10:59.665 --> 00:11:04.495 The very things I heard you say, you will all drop dead in this wilderness 00:11:05.125 --> 00:11:06.805 because you complained against me. 00:11:07.105 --> 00:11:11.125 Every one of you who is 20 years old or older and was included 00:11:11.125 --> 00:11:12.955 in the registration will die. 00:11:13.525 --> 00:11:16.615 You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. 00:11:17.305 --> 00:11:22.075 The only exceptions will be Caleb's son of Jauna and Joshua, son of none. 00:11:23.140 --> 00:11:25.690 You said your children would be carried off as plunder. 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:29.830 Well, I will bring them safely into the land and they will 00:11:29.830 --> 00:11:31.750 enjoy what you have despised. 00:11:32.230 --> 00:11:37.150 But as for you, you'll drop dead in this wilderness and your children 00:11:37.150 --> 00:11:41.080 will be like shepherds wandering in the wild wilderness for 40 years. 00:11:41.620 --> 00:11:46.000 In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness until the last of 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:47.470 you lies dead in the wilderness. 00:11:48.490 --> 00:11:53.470 Because your men explored the land for 40 days, you must wander in the wilderness 00:11:53.470 --> 00:11:58.990 for 40 years, a year, for each day suffering the consequences of your sins. 00:11:59.650 --> 00:12:03.070 Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy. 00:12:03.820 --> 00:12:05.680 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:12:06.400 --> 00:12:09.670 I will certainly do these things to every member of the community 00:12:09.670 --> 00:12:11.320 who has conspired against me. 00:12:11.830 --> 00:12:16.630 They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die. 00:12:17.800 --> 00:12:22.600 The 10 men Moses had sent to explore the land, the ones who incited rebellion 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.770 against the Lord with their bad report were struck dead with a plague before the 00:12:26.770 --> 00:12:33.070 Lord of the 12 who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive. 00:12:33.570 --> 00:12:37.450 The, when Moses reported the Lord's words to all the Israelites, the 00:12:37.450 --> 00:12:38.980 people were filled with grief. 00:12:39.730 --> 00:12:43.900 Then they got up early the next morning and went to the top of the range of hills. 00:12:44.590 --> 00:12:45.370 Let's go. 00:12:45.490 --> 00:12:49.960 They said, we realize that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:51.820 the land the Lord has promised us. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:57.130 But Moses said, why are you now disobeying the Lord's orders 00:12:57.130 --> 00:12:58.510 to return to the wilderness? 00:12:59.020 --> 00:12:59.950 It won't work. 00:13:00.610 --> 00:13:02.290 Do not go up in the land. 00:13:02.295 --> 00:13:02.800 Now. 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:06.880 You will only be crushed by your enemies because the Lord is not with you. 00:13:07.570 --> 00:13:10.540 When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, 00:13:10.870 --> 00:13:11.950 you'll be slaughtered. 00:13:12.475 --> 00:13:18.295 The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord, but the people 00:13:18.295 --> 00:13:23.395 defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country even though neither Moses nor the 00:13:23.395 --> 00:13:25.495 Ark of the Lord's covenant left the camp. 00:13:26.395 --> 00:13:30.235 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and 00:13:30.235 --> 00:13:32.395 attacked them and chased them back. 00:13:32.485 --> 00:13:33.175 As far as ho. 00:13:35.035 --> 00:13:37.885 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:13:38.035 --> 00:13:38.995 Thank you for joining us.