1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,440 in a year. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,960 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 5 through 7. 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:13,960 Chapter 5 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,440 And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,760 which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:24,760 them. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,800 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,880 The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers but with us, those who are here today, 10 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,600 all of us who are alive. 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,240 The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,840 I stood between the LORD and you at that time to declare to you the word of the LORD, for 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,720 you were afraid because of the fire and you did not go up the mountain. 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,440 He said, I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house 15 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,620 of bondage. 16 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:55,960 You shall have no other gods before me. 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,840 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:05,680 above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,120 You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,720 For I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon 21 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,840 the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,720 thousands and to those who love me and keep my commandments. 23 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,060 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. 24 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:29,600 For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 25 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,880 Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 26 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,600 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the 27 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:39,860 LORD your God. 28 00:01:39,860 --> 00:01:45,200 In it you shall do no work, you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:51,240 your female servant, nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor your stranger 30 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:56,120 who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,120 you. 32 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,560 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,360 you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. 34 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,200 Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 35 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,240 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your 36 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,320 days may be long and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is 37 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,520 giving you. 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,100 You shall not murder. 39 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:22,920 You shall not commit adultery. 40 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,500 You shall not steal. 41 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:27,680 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 42 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,440 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's 43 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:37,880 house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that 44 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,640 is your neighbor's. 45 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:44,400 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mountain from the midst of the fire, 46 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,320 the cloud, and the thick darkness with a loud voice, and he added no more. 47 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,800 And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,600 So it was when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:02,140 burning with fire that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. 50 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:06,840 And you said, Surely the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,600 we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. 52 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,320 We have seen this day that God speaks with man, yet he still lives. 53 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,900 Now therefore why should we die? 54 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,200 For this great fire will consume us. 55 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,540 If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we will die. 56 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:27,760 For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from 57 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,320 the midst of the fire as we have and lived? 58 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:36,280 You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD 59 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,800 our God says to you, and we will hear and do it. 60 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,840 Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to 61 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,600 me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. 62 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,640 They are right in all that they have spoken. 63 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,720 O that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and always keep all my 64 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,480 commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever. 65 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:05,160 Go and say to them, return to your tents, but as for you, stand here by me, and I will 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,080 speak to you all the commandments, the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, 67 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,420 that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess. 68 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:17,960 Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. 69 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,160 You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 70 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:26,000 You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,240 and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which 72 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,360 you shall possess. 73 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,800 Chapter 6 Now this is the commandment, and these are 74 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,360 the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that 75 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,740 you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may 76 00:04:44,740 --> 00:04:49,520 fear the LORD your God to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,080 you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may 78 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,720 be prolonged. 79 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,380 Therefore hear O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, 80 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:05,360 and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, a land 81 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,400 flowing with milk and honey. 82 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,040 Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. 83 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,200 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all 84 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,720 your strength. 85 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,160 And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 86 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,560 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your 87 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,280 house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 88 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,880 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your 89 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:34,880 eyes. 90 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,200 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 91 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,400 So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which he swore to your 92 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,560 fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did 93 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:54,560 not build, houses full of all good things which you did not fill, hewn out wells which 94 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:00,060 you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, when you have eaten 95 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:05,120 and are full, then beware, lest you forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of 96 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,520 Egypt from the house of bondage. 97 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,600 You shall fear the LORD your God and serve him, and shall take oath in his name. 98 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,360 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you, for 99 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,120 the LORD your God is a jealous God among you. 100 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,200 Lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face 101 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:25,400 of the earth. 102 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,620 You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted him in Massa. 103 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:33,880 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies and 104 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,200 his statutes which he has commanded you, and you shall do what is right and good in the 105 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,840 sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the 106 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:47,960 good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers, to cast out all your enemies from 107 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,640 before you as the LORD has spoken. 108 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:56,120 When your son asks you in time to come saying, what is the meaning of the testimonies, the 109 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,680 statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you, then you shall 110 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:04,320 say to your son, we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt 111 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,960 with a mighty hand, and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, 112 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,120 against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household. 113 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,880 Then he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in to give us the land of which 114 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,680 he swore to our fathers. 115 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,880 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God for our 116 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,840 good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is this day. 117 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,560 Then it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all these commandments 118 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,320 before the LORD our God as he has commanded us. 119 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,400 Chapter 7 When the LORD your God brings you into the 120 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,360 land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and 121 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,680 the Girgashites, and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and the Hevites 122 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,600 and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you. 123 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,720 And when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly 124 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:00,800 destroy them. 125 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,560 You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them, nor shall you make marriages 126 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:06,560 with them. 127 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,920 You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son, 128 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,480 for they will turn your sons away from following me, to serve other gods, so the anger of 129 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,200 the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. 130 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,160 But thus you shall deal with them, you shall destroy their altars, and break down their 131 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,840 sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with 132 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:28,840 fire. 133 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,340 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. 134 00:08:31,340 --> 00:08:36,120 The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above all the 135 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,400 peoples on the face of the earth. 136 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,920 The LORD did not set his love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any 137 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,280 other people, for you were the least of all peoples. 138 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,920 But because the LORD loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your 139 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:56,320 fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house 140 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,320 of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh, King of Egypt. 141 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:05,580 Therefore know that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant 142 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:10,800 and mercy for a thousand generations, with those who love him and keep his commandments. 143 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,720 And he repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. 144 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,400 He will not be slack with him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. 145 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,400 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command 146 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,600 you today to observe them. 147 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,680 Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that 148 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:35,320 the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers. 149 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,060 And he will love you and bless you and multiply you. 150 00:09:38,060 --> 00:09:42,440 He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain and 151 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,600 your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, 152 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,060 in the land of which he swore to your fathers to give you. 153 00:09:51,060 --> 00:09:53,400 You shall be blessed above all peoples. 154 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,240 There shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 155 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,400 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness and will afflict you with none of the terrible 156 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:08,660 diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 157 00:10:08,660 --> 00:10:13,640 Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you. 158 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,380 Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be as 159 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:19,780 near to you. 160 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:24,920 If you should say in your heart, these nations are greater than I, how can I dispossess them? 161 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:29,180 You shall not be afraid of them, but shall remember well what the LORD your God did to 162 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:34,920 Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, 163 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,840 the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. 164 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,160 So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 165 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,600 Moreover the LORD your God will send a hornet among them until those who are left, who hide 166 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,060 themselves from you, are destroyed. 167 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:56,160 You shall not be terrified of them, for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, 168 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:57,240 is among you. 169 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,220 And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. 170 00:11:01,220 --> 00:11:05,960 You will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous 171 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,960 for you. 172 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,360 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them 173 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,160 until they are destroyed. 174 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,240 And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from 175 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,480 under heaven. 176 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,560 No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. 177 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,540 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. 178 00:11:25,540 --> 00:11:30,760 You shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest 179 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,440 you be snared by it. 180 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,480 For it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 181 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:40,040 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like 182 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,040 it. 183 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:50,760 You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing. 184 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,380 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 185 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:56,680 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 186 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:06,600 God bless you and have a great day.