Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year.
Today's reading is from Numbers chapters 32 to 34.
Chapter 32
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock,
and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was
a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
to Moses, to Eliezer the priest and to the leaders of the congregation saying, Atoroth,
Dabon, Jazer, Nimrah, Hezbon, Elielah, Shebam, Nebo and Beon.
The country which the Lord defeated before the congregation of Israel is a land for livestock,
and your servants have livestock.
Therefore they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your
servants as a possession.
Do not take us over the Jordan.
And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren
go to war while you sit here?
Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the
land which the Lord has given them?
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
For when they went up to the valley of Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart
of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given
them.
The Lord's anger was aroused on that day, and he swore an oath, saying, Surely none
of the men who came up from Egypt from twenty years old and above shall see the land of
which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Canizite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly
followed the Lord.
So the Lord's anger was aroused against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness
forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was
gone.
And look, you have risen in your father's place, a brood of sinful men, to increase
still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
For if you turn away from following him, he will once again leave them in the wilderness,
and you will destroy all these people.
Then they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and
cities for our little ones.
But we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have
brought them to their place, and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because
of the inhabitants of the land.
We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received
his inheritance, for we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond,
because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.
Then Moses said to them, If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for
the war, and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven
out his enemies from before him, and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward
you may return and be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and this land shall
be your possession before the Lord.
But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure
your sin will find you out.
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded
out of your mouth.
Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants
will do as my Lord commands.
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities
of Gilead.
But your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle,
just as my Lord says.
So Moses gave command concerning them to Eliezer the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and
to the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over
the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the Lord, and the land is subdued before
you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the
land of Canaan.
Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord has
said to your servants, so we will do.
We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan.
But the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.
So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to have the tribe
of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom
of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding
country.
And the children of Gad built Dibon and Atoroth and Aror, Atroth and Shofan and Jazer, and
Jogbehah, Beit Nimrah and Beit Haran fortified cities, and foals for sheep.
And the children of Reuben built Hezbon and Elayla and Kirjasim, Nebo and Beal-Meon, their
names being changed, and Shibma.
And they gave other names to the cities which they dwelt.
And the children of Makir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and this possessed
the Amorites who were in it.
So Moses called Gilead to Makir the son of Manasseh and he dwelt in it.
Also Gilead the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns and called them Havoth Gire.
Then Noba went and took Kinat and its villages, and he called it Noba after his own name.
Chapter 33 These are the journeys of the children of
Israel who went out of the land of Egypt by their names under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord,
and these are their journeys according to their starting points.
They departed from Ramses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month.
On the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight
of all the Egyptians.
For the Egyptians were burying all their first born, whom the Lord had killed among them.
Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.
Then the children of Israel moved from Ramses and camped at Sukkot.
They departed from Sukkot and camped at Itam which is on the edge of the wilderness.
They moved from Itam and turned back to Pai Hahirat which is east of Baal Ziphon and they
camped near Megdol.
They departed from before Hahirat and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness,
went three days journey in the wilderness of Itam and camped at Marah.
They moved from Marah and came to Elim.
At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
They journeyed from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Such talks sheltered by Very
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They departed from Moceroth and camped at Bene-Jacan.
They moved from Bene-Jacan and camped at Hor Hagid-Gad.
They went from Hor Hagid-Gad and camped at Jodhbata.
They moved from Jodhbata and camped at Abrona.
They departed from Abrona and camped at Ezion-Geber.
They moved from Ezion-Geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kaddish.
They moved from Kaddish and camped at Mount Hor on the boundary of the land of Edom.
Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there in
the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt on the first
day of the fifth month.
Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
Now the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard
of the coming of the children of Israel.
So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmona.
They departed from Zalmona and camped at Pounon.
They departed from Pounon and camped at Uboth.
They departed from Uboth and camped at Ij-Abarim at the border of Moab.
They departed from Ij-Abarim and camped at Dibongad.
They moved from Dibongad and camped at Almon-Diblateim.
They moved from Almon-Diblateim and camped in the mountains of Abarim before Nebo.
They departed from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
across from Jericho.
They camped by the Jordan from Beth-Jesumoth as far as the Abel-Akesha grove in the plains
of Moab.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho
saying, Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you have crossed the Jordan
into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before
you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all
their high places.
You shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it.
For I have given you the land to possess, and you shall divide the land by lot as an
inheritance among your families.
To the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller
inheritance.
There, everyone's inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot.
You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall
be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your
sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
Moreover, it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.
Chapter 34 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command
the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan, this is
the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan, to its boundaries.
Your southern border shall be from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom.
Then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of the salt sea.
Your border shall turn from the southern side of the ascent of Akrabim, continue to Zin,
and be on the south of Kadesh Barnea.
Then it shall go on to Hazar Adar and continue to Azman.
The border shall turn from Azman to the brook of Egypt and it shall end at the sea.
As for the western border, you shall have the great sea for a border.
This shall be your western border.
And this shall be your northern border.
From the great sea, you shall mark out your border line to Mount Hor.
From Mount Hor, you shall mark out your border to the entrance of Hamad.
Then the direction of the border shall be toward Zidad.
The border shall proceed to Zephron and it shall end at Hazar Inan.
This shall be your northern border.
You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Inan to Shefam.
The border shall go down from Shefam to Ribla on the east side of Ain.
The border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the sea of Shinareth.
The border shall go down along the Jordan and it shall end at the salt sea.
This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.
The Moses commanded the children of Israel saying, This is the land which you shall inherit
by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe
of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance,
and the half tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan
across from Jericho eastward toward the sunrise.
And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, These are the names of the men who shall divide
the land among you as an inheritance, Eliezer the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.
These are the names of the men, from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Zephuna.
From the tribe of the children of Simeon, Chemuel the son of Amihud.
Kislon.
A leader from the tribe of the children of Dan, Bokii, the son of Jogli.
From the tribe of Joseph, a leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanyal
the son of Ephod.
And a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Chemuel the son of Sheftan.
A leader from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Ali Zapan, the son of Parnak.
a leader from the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan,
a leader from the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi,
and a leader from the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Amihud.
These are the ones the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our journey.
God bless you and have a great day.