1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,480 Hello, this is Father Paul and I am glad we are taking this journey together to read the 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,600 Bible in a year. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:13,000 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 8-11. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,600 Chapter 8 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,680 Every commandment which I command you today, you must be careful to observe that you may 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,000 live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,880 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,260 in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether 9 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:34,600 you would keep His commandments or not. 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,200 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know, 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,560 nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,000 alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,940 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 14 00:00:52,940 --> 00:00:57,280 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,280 you. 16 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,120 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,400 and to fear Him. 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,920 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of 19 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:13,400 fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:18,760 vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, a land in which you 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,600 will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,460 are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 23 00:01:27,460 --> 00:01:31,560 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good 24 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,480 land which He has given you. 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,660 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments 26 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:42,340 and His statutes which I command you today, lest when you have eaten and are full and 27 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:46,800 have built beautiful houses and dwell in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply 28 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,520 and your silver and your gold are multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, when 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,960 your heart is lifted up and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land 30 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,680 of Egypt from the house of bondage, who led you through that great and terrible wilderness 31 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,760 in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water, 32 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,760 who brought water for you out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna 33 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,360 which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you to do 34 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,120 good in the end. 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,080 When you say in your heart, My power and the might of My hand have gained me this wealth, 36 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:27,000 and you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,760 that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers as it is this day. 38 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,360 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and 39 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:41,980 serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish, 40 00:02:41,980 --> 00:02:46,680 as the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would 41 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,480 not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God. 42 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,040 Chapter 9 Here, O Israel, you are to cross over the 43 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:59,680 Jordan today, and go in to dispossessed nations greater and mightier than yourself, said he 44 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:05,640 is great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, 45 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:11,200 whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, who can stand before the descendants of Anak. 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:16,160 Therefore, understand today that the LORD your God is He who goes over before you as 47 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,880 a consuming fire, He will destroy them and bring them down before you, so you shall drive 48 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,440 them out and destroy them quickly as the LORD has said to you. 49 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Do not think in your heart after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, 50 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,720 before of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land. 51 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,640 But it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out 52 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:38,720 from before you. 53 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,640 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go 54 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,120 in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD 55 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,840 your God drives them out from before you, and that he may fulfill the word which the 56 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,160 LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 57 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,080 Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,800 because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. 59 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:09,000 Remember, do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness, 60 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,120 from the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place. 61 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,680 You have been rebellious against the LORD. 62 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,040 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,520 to have destroyed you. 64 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:26,120 When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant 65 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,560 which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 66 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,440 I neither ate bread nor drank water. 67 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,640 Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and 68 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,040 on them were all the words which the LORD has spoken to you on the mountain from the 69 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,920 midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 70 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,920 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the LORD gave me the 71 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,120 two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 72 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,600 Then the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought 73 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,240 out of Egypt have acted corruptly. 74 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,640 They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. 75 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,160 They have made themselves a moulded image. 76 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,360 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen these people, and indeed they 77 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,200 are a stiff-necked people. 78 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,120 Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will 79 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,520 make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. 80 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,680 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire, and the 81 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,520 two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 82 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:31,520 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, had made for yourselves 83 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,840 a moulded calf. 84 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:36,640 You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 85 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,400 Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands and broke them before your 86 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:41,400 eyes. 87 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,200 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first forty days and forty nights I neither 88 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,800 ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly 89 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,620 in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 90 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:58,040 For I was afraid of the anger and heart displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to 91 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,120 destroy you. 92 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,520 But the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD was very angry with Aaron and 93 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,080 would have destroyed him, so I prayed for Aaron also at that time. 94 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,460 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed 95 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:15,760 it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. 96 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,480 And I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain. 97 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,280 Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hatava you provoked the LORD to wrath. 98 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:28,720 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kaddish Barnea saying, Go up and possess the land 99 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,600 which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, 100 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,280 and you did not believe him nor obey his voice. 101 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:39,400 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 102 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,720 Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD, forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, 103 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,560 because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 104 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:52,480 Therefore I prayed to the LORD and said, O LORD God, do not destroy your people and your 105 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,720 inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out 106 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,880 of Egypt with a mighty hand. 107 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,440 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 108 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:06,560 Do not look on the stubbornness of these people, or on their wickedness, or their sin. 109 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,060 Lest the land from which you brought us should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring 110 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:15,280 them to the land which you promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought 111 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,840 them out to kill them in the wilderness. 112 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,360 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your mighty power 113 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,320 and by your outstretched arm. 114 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,160 Chapter 10 At that time the LORD said to me, Hew for 115 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:34,080 yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make 116 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,320 yourself an ark of wood. 117 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,280 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, 118 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,560 and you shall put them in the ark. 119 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:48,200 So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went 120 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,440 up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. 121 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,720 And he wrote on the tablets according to the first writing the Ten Commandments, which 122 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:00,120 the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the 123 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,800 assembly, and the LORD gave them to me. 124 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,600 Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had 125 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,640 made, and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me. 126 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,400 Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene-Jakkan to Moserah where 127 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:21,160 Aaron died, and where he was buried, and Eliezer his son ministered as priest in his stead. 128 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:28,160 From there they journeyed to Gudgoda, from Gudgoda to Jodbatah, a land of rivers of water. 129 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,200 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of 130 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,900 the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name to this day. 131 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:43,380 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren, the LORD is his inheritance, 132 00:08:43,380 --> 00:08:45,640 just as the LORD your God promised him. 133 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,360 As at the first time I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights, the LORD also 134 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,240 heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you. 135 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,640 Then the LORD said to me, Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go 136 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,860 in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 137 00:09:02,860 --> 00:09:06,500 And now Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? 138 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:11,080 But to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, to serve the 139 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,160 LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments 140 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,480 of the LORD and his statutes which I commanded you today for your good. 141 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,400 Indeed, heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with 142 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,760 all that is in it. 143 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:30,020 The LORD delighted only in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants 144 00:09:30,020 --> 00:09:34,160 after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. 145 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,720 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be stiff-necked no longer. 146 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:44,760 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, 147 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,660 who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 148 00:09:47,660 --> 00:09:52,140 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving 149 00:09:52,140 --> 00:09:54,080 him food and clothing. 150 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,920 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 151 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,560 You shall fear the LORD your God, you shall serve him, and to him you shall hold fast 152 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,720 and take oath in his name. 153 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,240 He is your praise and he is your God, which has done for you these great and awesome things 154 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,900 which your eyes have seen. 155 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:15,580 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made 156 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:19,000 you as the stars of heaven in multitude. 157 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,200 Chapter 11 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God 158 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:27,540 and keep his charge, his statutes, his judgments, and his commandments always. 159 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:32,640 Know today that I do not speak with your children who have not known and who have not seen the 160 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:38,320 chastening of the LORD your God, his greatness and his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 161 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,220 his signs and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt, the Pharaoh King of Egypt, 162 00:10:43,220 --> 00:10:44,680 and to all his land. 163 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,880 What he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots, how he made the 164 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,600 waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed 165 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,400 them to this day. 166 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,360 What he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place, and what he did to 167 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,520 the than and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth 168 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:09,440 and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their 169 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,440 possession. 170 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,040 In the midst of all Israel, but your eyes have seen every great act of the LORD which 171 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,040 he did. 172 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,800 Therefore, you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be 173 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,480 strong and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, and that you may 174 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,040 prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their 175 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,280 descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 176 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,160 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have 177 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:41,200 come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot as a vegetable garden. 178 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,440 But the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks 179 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,800 water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the LORD your God cares. 180 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,680 The eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the 181 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,320 very end of the year. 182 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,720 And it shall be that if you earnestly obey my commandments which I command you today 183 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,680 to love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, then 184 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:09,520 I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter 185 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:14,560 rain that you may gather in your grain, your new wine and your oil. 186 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:19,880 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock that you may eat and be filled. 187 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,240 Take heed to yourselves lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other 188 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,540 gods and worship them, lest the LORD's anger be aroused against you. 189 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:33,720 And he shut up the heavens so that there be no rain and the land yield no produce, and 190 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,240 you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you. 191 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:42,120 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul and bind 192 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:47,240 them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 193 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,560 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you 194 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:55,280 walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. 195 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,040 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your 196 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,040 days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore 197 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,320 to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. 198 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,720 For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do, to love the LORD 199 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,400 your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him, then the LORD will drive 200 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:21,040 out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations 201 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,400 than yourselves. 202 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,480 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours, from the wilderness 203 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:32,340 and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea, shall be your territory. 204 00:13:32,340 --> 00:13:34,560 No man shall be able to stand against you. 205 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:38,840 The LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where 206 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,480 you tread, just as he has said to you. 207 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:46,120 Behold, I said before you today a blessing and a curse, the blessing if you obey the 208 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,520 commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today, and a curse if you do not 209 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,640 obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside from the way which I command 210 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,920 you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. 211 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,920 Now it shall be when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to 212 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:08,400 possess that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 213 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,520 Are they not, on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun in the land of the 214 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:18,460 Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terabint tree of Moray? 215 00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:21,960 For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your 216 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,260 God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. 217 00:14:26,260 --> 00:14:30,440 And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I said before 218 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:36,400 you today. 219 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,000 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did and I look forward to seeing you 220 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,320 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 221 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:58,320 God bless you and have a great day.