Daily Bread — Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Good Morning. I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. And Moses said to the Lord: "Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them."...
Daily Bread — Saturday, August 12, 2023
Good Morning. Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30) When the spies came back with their report, the people were dismayed and gave into fear and doubt. This...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Good Morning. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.” (Numbers 13:1-2) At this point in their...
Daily Bread — Sunday, August 6, 2023
Good Morning. Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard...
Daily Bread — Monday, August 14, 2023
Good Morning. Now the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel. (Numbers 14:10) In the midst of all the clamor surrounding the spies' evil report, the two faithful spies -- Joshua and Caleb -- had tried to dissuade the...
Daily Bread — Friday, August 11, 2023
Good Morning. Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Good Morning. So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. Please do not let her be as one dead." (Numbers 12:11-12) The rabbinical belief is that Miriam was struck with leprosy...
Daily Bread — Saturday, August 5, 2023
Good Morning. Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of...
Daily Bread — Sunday, August 13, 2023
Good Morning. And all the children of Israel complained 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 died in this wilderness!" (Numbers 14:2) The Bible says that, upon hearing the report...
Daily Bread — Thursday, August 10, 2023
Good Morning. These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua. (Numbers 13:16) Looking at the Biblical text in Hebrew almost always provides insight into what is going on that might otherwise be...
Daily Bread — Monday, August 7, 2023
Good Morning. Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth. (Numbers 12:3) In the previous devotion, we spoke of the fact that God hears what we say, and especially when we speak against His purpose and people. Apparently,...
Daily Bread — Friday, August 4, 2023
Good Morning. And it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were...