1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,040 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,780 in a year. 3 00:00:08,780 --> 00:00:12,660 Today we're beginning the book of Deuteronomy, the last of the five books of the Pentateuch 4 00:00:12,660 --> 00:00:15,480 and the fifth book of the Old Testament. 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,760 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 1 and 2. 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,960 Chapter 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:29,080 Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite souf between Paran, 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,600 Kofil, Laban, Hazarat, and Dizahab. 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:38,120 It is eleven days journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:43,100 Now came to pass in the fortieth year in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month 11 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:47,520 that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,720 as commandments to them, after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Hezbon 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,760 and Og king of Bashan who dwelt in Ashtaroth in Idre. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:02,040 On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law saying, 15 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,400 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb saying, You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,800 Turn and take your journey and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places 17 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,880 in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the south and on the sea coast, 18 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:22,600 to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 19 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,680 See I have set the land before you. 20 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,240 Go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and 21 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,880 Jacob, to give them and their descendants after them. 22 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,280 And I spoke to you at that time saying, I alone am not able to bear you. 23 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,500 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven 24 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:42,840 in multitude. 25 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:48,240 May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, 26 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,520 and bless you as he has promised you. 27 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,480 How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,800 Use wise, understanding and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make 29 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,300 them heads over you. 30 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,340 And you answered me and said, The thing which you have told us to do is good. 31 00:02:04,340 --> 00:02:08,720 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over 32 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:14,960 you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,540 for your tribes. 34 00:02:16,540 --> 00:02:20,960 Then I commanded your judges at that time saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, 35 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,440 and judge righteously between a man and his brother, or the stranger who is with him. 36 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,900 You shall not show partiality in judgment, you shall hear the small as well as the great. 37 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:34,120 You shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. 38 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,480 The case that is too hard for you bring to me and I will hear it. 39 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,520 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. 40 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,640 So we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which 41 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:49,820 you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the Lord our God had commanded 42 00:02:49,820 --> 00:02:50,820 us. 43 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:54,600 Then I came to Kaddish Barnea, and I said to you, You have come to the mountains of 44 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,400 the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 45 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:02,720 Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you, go up and possess it, as the Lord God 46 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,760 of your fathers has spoken to you, do not fear or be discouraged. 47 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,440 And every one of you came near to me and said, Let us send men before us, and let them search 48 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,920 out the land for us and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and 49 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,360 of the cities into which we shall come. 50 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:24,320 The plan pleased me well, so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. 51 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,720 And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the valley of Eshkol, and spied 52 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:29,720 it out. 53 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,800 They also took some of the fruits of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. 54 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,760 And they brought back word to us, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is 55 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:38,760 giving us. 56 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,400 Nevertheless, you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 57 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,340 And you complained in your tents and said, Because the Lord hates us, he has brought 58 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:52,160 us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,360 Where can we go up? 60 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,400 Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller 61 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:58,400 than we. 62 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,000 The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,680 Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 64 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,760 Then I said to you, Do not be terrified or afraid of them. 65 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,220 The Lord your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all he did 66 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:14,480 for you in Egypt before your eyes. 67 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,520 And in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries 68 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:23,120 his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. 69 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,520 Yet for all that you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to 70 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,560 search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the 71 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,240 fire by night and in the cloud by day. 72 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,780 And the Lord heard the sound of your words and was angry and took an oath, saying, Surely 73 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:44,820 not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore 74 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:48,540 to give to your fathers, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 75 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:53,440 He shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because 76 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,600 he wholly followed the Lord. 77 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,480 The Lord was also angry with me for your sake, saying, Even you shall not go in there. 78 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,720 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. 79 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,040 Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 80 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,400 Moreover over your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have 81 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,680 no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there. 82 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,600 To them I will give it, and they shall possess it. 83 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,480 But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red 84 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,480 Sea. 85 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,160 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and 86 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,300 fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us. 87 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,480 And when every one of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into 88 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:35,520 the mountain. 89 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:40,560 And the Lord said to me, Tell them, Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you, lest 90 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,900 you be defeated before your enemies. 91 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:47,680 So I spoke to you, yet you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the Lord, 92 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,680 and presumptuously went up into the mountain. 93 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,520 And Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, 94 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,340 and drove you back from Seir to Hormah. 95 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:02,280 Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not listen to your voice 96 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:03,800 nor give ear to you. 97 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,920 So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there. 98 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,520 Chapter 2 Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness 99 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,320 of the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many 100 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:18,320 days. 101 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:23,540 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, You have skirted this mountain long enough, turn northward, 102 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:27,960 and command the people, saying, You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, 103 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,400 the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and they will be afraid of you. 104 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, do not meddle with them, for I will not give you 105 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:37,920 any of their land. 106 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,760 No, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession. 107 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,640 You shall buy food from them with money that you may eat, and you shall also buy water 108 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,880 from them with money that you may drink. 109 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,520 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. 110 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,280 He knows you are trudging through this great wilderness. 111 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:00,820 These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, you have lacked nothing. 112 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:05,020 And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away 113 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:09,880 from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion-gibber, we turned and passed by 114 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,960 way of the wilderness of Moab. 115 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,540 Then the Lord said to me, Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will 116 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:21,380 not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given our to the descendants 117 00:07:21,380 --> 00:07:23,120 of Lot as a possession. 118 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,480 The Imim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the 119 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,600 Anakim. 120 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:34,840 They were also regarded as giants like the Anakim, but the Moabites called them Imim. 121 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:39,640 The Horites formally dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and 122 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:44,500 destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place just as Israel did to the land 123 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:47,280 of their possession which the Lord gave them. 124 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,360 Now rise and cross over the valley of the Zared. 125 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,200 So we crossed over the valley of the Zared, and the time we took to come from Kadesh-Barnia 126 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,320 until we crossed over the valley of the Zared was thirty-eight years, until all the generation 127 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,040 of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to 128 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,040 them. 129 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,720 For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them to destroy them from the midst of the 130 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,940 camp until they were consumed. 131 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:16,480 So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, that the Lord 132 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:22,300 spoke to me, saying, This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab. 133 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:26,240 And when you come near the people of Amon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for 134 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,500 I will not give you any of the land of the people of Amon as a possession, because I 135 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:34,380 have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession. 136 00:08:34,380 --> 00:08:37,260 That was also regarded as a land of giants. 137 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:42,760 Giants formally dwelt there, but the Amonites called them the Zamzumim, a people as great 138 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,440 and numerous and tall as the Anakim. 139 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,920 But the Lord destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their 140 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,980 place, just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who dwelt in Seir when He destroyed 141 00:08:53,980 --> 00:08:55,760 the Horites from before them. 142 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,400 They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place even to this day. 143 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:05,000 And Avim who dwelt in the villages as far as Gaza, the Kafturim who came from Kaftur, 144 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,840 destroyed them and dwelt in their place. 145 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,120 Rise, take your journey and cross over the river Arnon. 146 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:16,280 Look, I have given into your hand Sehon the Amorite, king of Hezbon, and his land. 147 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,980 Begin to possess it and engage him in battle. 148 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:23,340 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole 149 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:27,800 heaven who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of 150 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:28,800 you. 151 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,580 And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sehon king of Hezbon with words 152 00:09:33,580 --> 00:09:36,640 of peace saying, Let me pass through your land. 153 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:41,500 I will keep strictly to the road and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. 154 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:46,040 You shall send me food for money that I may eat and give me water for money that I may 155 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:47,040 drink. 156 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,520 Only let me pass through on foot. 157 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,680 Just as the descendants of Esau who dwelt in Seir and the Moabites who dwelt in Ar did 158 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:58,720 for me until I crossed the Jordan to the land which the Lord our God is giving us. 159 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,280 But Sehon king of Hezbon would not let us pass through for the Lord our God hardened 160 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:08,280 his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver him into your hand as it 161 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,840 is this day. 162 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,040 And the Lord said to me, See I have begun to give Sehon and his land over to you. 163 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,040 Begin to possess it that you may inherit his land. 164 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:22,400 Then Sehon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jihaz. 165 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,180 And the Lord our God delivered him over to us. 166 00:10:25,180 --> 00:10:28,040 So we defeated him, his sons and all his people. 167 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:33,040 We took all his cities at that time and we utterly destroyed the men, women and little 168 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,600 ones of every city. 169 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,240 We left none remaining. 170 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,520 We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves with the spoil of the cities which 171 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,520 we took. 172 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,400 From Erwar which is on the bank of the river Arnon and from the city that is in the ravine 173 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,040 as far as Gilead. 174 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,240 There was not one city too strong for us. 175 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,140 The Lord our God delivered all to us. 176 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:58,100 Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon, anywhere along the river Jabak or 177 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:07,360 to the cities of the mountains or wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us. 178 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,980 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did and I look forward to seeing you 179 00:11:10,980 --> 00:11:13,320 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 180 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:41,320 God bless you and have a great day.