Week 10: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | Day 4

Tasks for this week:

  1. Watch all three parts of A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  2. Complete daily Bible reading
  3. Memorize Leviticus 26:13 and Deuteronomy 31:7-8

Week 10: Day 4

Today’s F260 Bible reading:  Numbers 13-14

13:1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.” 3So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. 4Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; 5from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; 6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 8from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; 9from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; 10from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; 11from the tribe of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; 12from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; 13from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; 14from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi; 15from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. 16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua. 17When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country 18and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many, 19and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities, 20and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes. 21So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo Hamath. 22When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs. 24That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there. 25They returned from investigating the land after 40 days. 26They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land. 27They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 30Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it.” 31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!” 32Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature. 33We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.” 14:1 Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness! 3Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” 5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites. 6And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments. 7They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land. 8If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land that is flowing with milk and honey. 9Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!” 10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting. 11The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them? 12I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them—I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!” 13Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear it—for you brought up this people by your power from among them— 14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night. 15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 16‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’ 17So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said, 18‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 19Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.” 20Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked. 21But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord. 22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me— 23they will by no means see the land that I promised on oath to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it— 24Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully—I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it. 25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.” 26The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 28Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness—all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised. 32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 33and your children will wander in the wilderness 40 years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. 34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, 40 days—one day for a year—you will suffer for your iniquities, 40 years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. 35I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’” 36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land, 37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. 38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived. 39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly. 40And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, for we have sinned.” 41But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed! 42Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies. 43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.” 44But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp. 45So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah. (NET Bible)

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