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Bible Reading for March 09
Deuteronomy 29
[1] These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to
make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant
which he made with them in Horeb.
[2] And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all
that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto
all his servants, and unto all his land; [3] The great temptations which thine
eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
[4] Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and
ears to hear, unto this day.
[5] And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not
waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. [6] Ye have
not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might
know that I am the LORD your God. [7] And when ye came unto this place, Sihon
the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto
battle, and we smote them: [8] And we took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh. [9] Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye
may prosper in all that ye do.
[10] Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of
your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, [11]
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the
hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: [12] That thou shouldest enter
into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God
maketh with thee this day: [13] That he may establish thee to day for a people
unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee,
and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
[14] Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; [15] But
with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also
with him that is not here with us this day: [16] (For ye know how we have
dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye
passed by; [17] And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) [18] Lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this
day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest
there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
[19] And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the
imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: [20] The LORD will
not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke
against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie
upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
[21] And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this
book of the law:
[22] So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after
you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they
see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon
it;
[23] And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that
it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow
of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his
anger, and in his wrath: [24] Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the
LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? [25]
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt:
[26] For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they
knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: [27] And the anger of the LORD
was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are
written in this book: [28] And the LORD rooted them out of their land in
anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another
land, as it is this day. [29] The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:
but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for
ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30
[1] And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them
to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
[2] And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according
to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul; [3] That then the LORD thy God will turn thy
captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from
all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
[4] If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from
thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
[5] And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply
thee above thy fathers.
[6] And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy
seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
that thou mayest live.
[7] And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on
them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. [8] And thou shalt return and obey
the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this
day. [9] And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for
good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: [10] If thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
[11] For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from
thee, neither is it far off.
[12] It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to
heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? [13] Neither is
it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? [14] But the word is
very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
[15] See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
[16] In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his
ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that
thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the
land whither thou goest to possess it. [17] But if thine heart turn away, so
that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish,
and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it.
[19] I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
[20] That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the
length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 31
[1] And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. [2] And he said unto
them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and
come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
[3] The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these
nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go
over before thee, as the LORD hath said. [4] And the LORD shall do unto them
as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of
them, whom he destroyed. [5] And the LORD shall give them up before your face,
that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
commanded you. [6] Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.
[7] And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people
unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and
thou shalt cause them to inherit it. [8] And the LORD, he it is that doth go
before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake
thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. [9] And Moses wrote this law, and
delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
[10] And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the
solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, [11] When all
Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
[12] Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy
stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may
learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
[13] And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and
learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
[14] And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must
die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and
presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. [15] And the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud
stood over the door of the tabernacle. [16] And the LORD said unto Moses,
Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and
go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to
be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made
with them. [17] Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say
in that day. Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among
us? [18] And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. [19] Now
therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put
it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the
children of Israel.
[20] For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their
fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and
filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and
serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. [21] And it shall come to
pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall
testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the
mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even
now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
[22] Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children
of Israel.
[23] And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a
good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which
I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. [24] And it came to pass, when
Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they
were finished, [25] That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of
the covenant of the LORD, saying,
[26] Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
[27] For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how
much more after my death?
[28] Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I
may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record
against them.
[29] For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and
turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you
in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. [30] And Moses spake in
the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they
were ended.
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