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.
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