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Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible.
This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.
Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 100 and 50
this is the body of instruction that
Moses presented to the Israelites.
These are the laws, decrees, and
regulations that Moses gave to the
people of Israel when they left Egypt,
and as they camped in the valley near
Beth Peor, east of the Jordan River.
This land was formerly occupied
by the Amorites under King
Sahan, who ruled from Heshbon.
But Moses and the Israelites
destroyed him and his people.
When they came up from Egypt, Israel
took possession of his land and
that of King OG of Basian, the two
Amorite kings east of the Jordan.
So Israel conquered the entire area from
a rower at the edge of the Arnon Gorge all
the way to Mount Sranan, also called Mount
Herman, and they conquered the Eastern
Bank of the Jordan River as far south as
the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisca.
Moses called all the people of
Israel together and said, listen
carefully Israel, hear the decrees
and regulations I am giving you today.
So you may learn them and obey them.
The Lord our God made a
covenant with us at Mount Sinai.
The Lord did not make this covenant
with our ancestors, but with all of us
who are alive today at the mountain.
The Lord spoke to you face to
face from the heart of the fire.
I stood as an intermediary between you and
the Lord for you were afraid of the fire
and did not want to approach the mountain.
He spoke to me and I
passed his words on to you.
This is what he said.
I am the Lord your God who
rescued you from the land of
Egypt, the place of your slavery.
You must not have any other God but me.
You must not make for yourself an idol of
any kind or an image of anything in the
heavens or on the earth or in the sea.
You must not bow down
to them or worship them.
For I the Lord your God, am a
jealous God who will not tolerate
your affection for any other gods.
I lay the sins of the
parents upon their children.
The entire family is affected, even
children in the third and fourth
generations of those who reject me.
But I lavish, unfailing love for
a thousand generations on those
who love me and obey my commands.
You must not misuse the
name of the Lord your God.
The Lord will not let you go
unpunished if you misuse his name.
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
as the Lord your God has commanded you.
You have six days each week for
your ordinary work, but the seventh
day is a Sabbath day of rest
dedicated to the Lord your God.
On that day, no one in your
household may do any work.
This includes you, your sons and
daughters, your male and female
servants, your oxen and donkeys,
and other livestock, and any
foreigners living among you.
All.
Your male and female
servants must rest as you do.
Remember that you were once slaves in
Egypt, but the Lord your God brought you
out with his strong hand and powerful arm.
That is why the Lord your God has
commanded you to rest on the Sabbath day.
Honor your father and mother as
the Lord your God commanded you.
Then you will live along full life in
the land the Lord your God is giving you.
You must not murder.
You must not commit adultery.
You must not steal.
You must not testify falsely
against your neighbor.
You must not covet your neighbor's wife.
You must not covet your neighbor's
house or land, male or female,
servant ox or donkey, or anything
else that belongs to your neighbor.
The Lord spoke these words to all of you,
assembled there, the foot of the mountain.
He spoke with a loud voice from
the heart of the fire, surrounded
by clouds and deep darkness.
This was all he said at that time,
and he wrote his words on two
stone tablets and gave them to me.
But when you heard the voice from the
heart of the darkness while the mountain
was blazing with fire, all your tribal
leaders and elders came to me, they said,
look, the Lord, our God has shown us his
glory and greatness, and we have heard
his voice from the heart of the fire.
Today we have seen that God can
speak to us humans, and yet we live.
Now, why should we risk death again?
If the Lord our God speaks to us
again, we will certainly die and
be consumed by this awesome fire.
Can any living thing hear the voice
of the living God from the heart of
the fire as we did and yet survive?
Go yourself and listen to
what the Lord our God says.
Then come and tell us everything he
tells you and we will listen and obey.
The Lord heard the request you made to
me, and he said, I have heard what the
people said to you, and they are right.
Oh, that they would always have
hearts like this, that they might
fear me and obey all my commands.
If they did, they and their
descendants would prosper forever.
Go and tell them, return to
your tents, but you stand here
with me so I can give you all my
commands, decrees, and regulations.
You must teach them to the people
so they can obey them in the land I
am giving them as their possession.
So Moses told the people, you must
be careful to obey all the commands
of the Lord your God, following
his instructions in every detail.
Stay on the path that the Lord your
God has commanded you to follow.
Then you will live long and
prosperous lives in the land you
are about to enter and occupy.
These are the commands, decrees,
and regulations that the Lord your
God commanded me to teach you.
You must obey them in the land.
You are about to enter and occupy,
and you and your children and
grandchildren must fear the Lord
your God, as long as you live.
If you obey all his decrees and
commands, you will enjoy a long life.
Listen closely as real
and be careful to obey.
Then all will go well with you,
and you will have many children
in the land flowing with milk and
honey just as the Lord, the God
of your ancestors promised you.
Listen, always real, the Lord
is our God, the Lord alone.
And you must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, and
all your strength, and you must commit
yourselves wholeheartedly to these
commands that I am giving you today.
Repeat them again and
again to your children.
Talk about them when you are at
home and when you are on the road.
When you are going to bed.
And when you are getting up, tie
them to your hands and wear them
on your forehead as reminders.
Write them on the doorposts of
your house and on your gates.
The Lord your God will soon bring
you into the land he swore to give
you when he made a vow to your
ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It is a land with large prosperous
cities that you did not build.
The houses will be richly stocked
with goods you did not produce.
You will draw water from cisterns you did
not dig and you will eat from vineyards
and olive trees you did not plant.
When you have eaten your fill in this
land, be careful not to forget the
Lord who rescued you from slavery
in the land of Egypt, you must fear
the Lord your God and serve him.
When you take an oath, you
must use only his name.
You must not worship any of the gods of
neighboring nations for the Lord your
God, who lives among you is a jealous God.
His anger will flare up against you and he
will wipe you from the face of the earth.
You must not test the Lord your God as
you did when you complained at nasa.
You must diligently obey the commands
of the Lord your God, all the
laws and decrees he has given you.
Do what is right and
good in the Lord's sight.
So all will go well with you.
Then you will enter and occupy
the good land that the Lord
swore to give your ancestors.
You will drive out all the enemies
living in the land, just as the
Lord said you would 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?
And then you must tell them.
We were Pharaoh's slaves in
Egypt, but the Lord brought us
out of Egypt with his strong hand.
The Lord did miraculous signs and
wonders before our eyes dealing
terrifying blows against Egypt
and Pharaoh and all his people.
He brought us out of Egypt so
he could give us this land he
had sworn to give our ancestors.
And the Lord our God commanded us to obey
all these decrees and to fear him so he
can continue to bless us and preserve
our lives as he has done to this day.
For we will be counted as righteous
when we obey all the commands
the Lord our God has given us.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.