1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible in a year. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Yesterday we heard about how the children of Israel actually start moving after all the preparations and all the rules and the regulations concerning the putting up and the taking down of the Tabernacle of Meeting and how they are to camp. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:33,000 They actually start moving and today we're going to hear about how spies are sent to the land of Canaan and what they see and how they report things back to the children of Israel. 4 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Alright, let's begin. Today's reading is from Numbers chapters 13 and 14. 5 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Chapter 13. 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them. 7 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord. 8 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 All of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. Now these were their names. 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,000 From the tribe of Reuben, Shamua the son of Zakur. From the tribe of Simeon, Shafat the son of Hori. 10 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,000 From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunah. From the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 11 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 From the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 12 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 From the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphel. 13 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 From the tribe of Zebulun, Gadiel the son of Sodhi. 14 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 From the tribe of Joseph, that is from the tribe of Manasseh, Gadhi the son of Susi. 15 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 From the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gemali. 16 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 From the tribe of Asher, Shetud the son of Michael. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 From the tribe of Naphtali, Nabih the son of Vufsi. 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 From the tribe of Gad, Gaeol the son of Maci. 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. 20 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 21 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, 22 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Go up this way into the south and go up to the mountains and see what the land is like. 23 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many. 24 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Whether the land they dwell in is good or bad. 25 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds. 26 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Whether the land is rich or poor. 27 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 And whether there are forests there or not. 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land. 29 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,000 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. 31 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And they went up through the south and came to Hebron. 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Ahiman, Shishai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were there. 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Now Hebron was built 7 years before Zohan in Egypt. 34 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Then they came to the valley of Eshkol and they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes. 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 They carried it between two of them on a pole. 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,000 The place was called the valley of Eshkol because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 And they returned from spying out the land after 40 days. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. 40 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,000 They brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. 41 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Then they told them and said, We went to the land where you sent us. 42 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 It truly flows with milk and honey. 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And this is its fruit. 44 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong. 45 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 The cities are fortified and very large. 46 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 47 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south. 48 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. 49 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan. 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and take possession for we are well able to overcome it. 51 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we. 52 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out saying, 53 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants. 54 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000 And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 55 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 There we saw the giants. 56 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 The descendants of Anak came from the giants. 57 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 And we were like grasshoppers in our own sight. 58 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 And so we were in their sight. 59 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Chapter 14. 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried. 61 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 And the people wept that night. 62 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron. 63 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 And the whole congregation said to them, If only we had died in the land of Egypt. 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Or if only we had died in this wilderness. 65 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword. 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 That our wives and children should become victims. 67 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? 68 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 So they said to one another, Let us select a leader and return to Egypt. 69 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 70 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:53,000 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes. 71 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 And they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel saying, 72 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 The land we pass through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us. 74 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 A land which flows with milk and honey. 75 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land. 76 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 For they are our bread. 77 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Their protection has departed from them. 78 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 And the Lord is with us. 79 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Do not fear them. 80 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. 81 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Now the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel. 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Then the Lord said to Moses, How long will these people reject me? 83 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 And how long will they not believe me? 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 With all the signs which I have performed among them. 85 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them. 86 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 And I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. 87 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 And Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear it. 88 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 For by your might you brought these people up from among them. 89 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. 90 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 They have heard that you, Lord, are among these people. 91 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 That you, Lord, are seen face to face and your cloud stands above them. 92 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 And you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 93 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Now if you kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of your fame will speak saying, 94 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Because the Lord was not able to bring these people to the land which he swore to give them. 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Therefore he killed them in the wilderness. 96 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 And now I pray, let the power of my Lord be great. 97 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Just as you have spoken saying, The Lord is long-suffering and abundant in mercy, 98 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Forgiving iniquity and transgression. 99 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 But he by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, 100 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 On the children to the third and fourth generation. 101 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Pardon the iniquity of these people, I pray, according to the greatness of your mercy. 102 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Just as you have forgiven these people from Egypt even until now. 103 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Then the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word. 104 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 But truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. 105 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Because all these men who have seen my glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness 106 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000 And have put me to the test now these ten times and have not heeded my voice. 107 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 They certainly shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers. 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Nor shall any of those who rejected me see it. 109 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed me fully, 110 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it. 111 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley. 112 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. 113 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, 114 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against me? 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against me. 116 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Say to them as I live, says the Lord, just as you have spoken in my hearing, so I will do to you. 117 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 The carcasses of you who have complained against me shall fall in this wilderness. 118 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:47,000 All of you who were numbered according to your entire number from twenty years old and above. 119 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, 120 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,000 you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 121 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But your little ones whom you said would be victims I will bring in. 122 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 And they shall know the land which you have despised. 123 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 124 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years. 125 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,000 And bear the brunt of your infidelity until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 126 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,000 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days. 127 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 For each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years. 128 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And you shall know my rejection. 129 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 I the Lord have spoken this, I will surely do so to all this evil generation who are gathered together against me. 130 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,000 In this wilderness they shall be consumed and there they shall die. 131 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, 132 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000 who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, 133 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,000 those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. 134 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive. 135 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Of the men who went to spy out the land. 136 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel. 137 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And the people mourned greatly. 138 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And they arose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain saying, 139 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Here we are and we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned. 140 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And Moses said, Now why do you transgress the command of the Lord? For this will not succeed. 141 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Do not go up lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. 142 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you and you shall fall by the sword. 143 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you. 144 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 But they presumed to go up to the mountain top. 145 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Nevertheless, neither the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp. 146 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them 147 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,000 and drove them back as far as Hormah. 148 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did. 149 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 And I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 150 00:09:49,000 --> 00:10:13,000 God bless you and have a great day.