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28:58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearsome name, Yahweh your God, then Yahweh will bring wondrous plagues on you and plagues on those who are your seed, even great and enduring plagues” So far in this…
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26:18-19 ‘Yahweh today has declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments; and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, a name, and beauty, and that you should be a people holy to…
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18:13, 19:19 “You shall be blameless before Yahweh your God; you shall purge evil from your midst” Israel has been instructed that through their prosperity and righteousness, the nations will see the true God at work in His people. These qualities that bear witness to God’s character will be protected through religious rituals and wise…
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10:14-22 “Circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer. For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the fearsome God” When Yahweh appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He swore to them in covenant that their seed would be a great nation in which…
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7:7-11 “Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, and Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. You shall therefore know that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God” Moses begins…
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3:21-22 And Moses commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you.” Despite recording…
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After the failure to inherit the land in the heart of this book of Scripture, the latter section of Numbers continues to lay the groundwork for the second attempt to conquer the land and fulfill God’s vision which He swore to the fathers. The three chapters in this reading divide the subjects well. The baseline…
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