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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Courage (24:1-13)

When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness. And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Blessed, Not Cursed (23:1-30)

And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Discipline (22:22-41)

But God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him. And the donkey

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Tasting God (22:1-21)

Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was in great dread of

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Our Canaans (21:21-35)

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Songs for Battle (21:10-20)

And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth. And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise. From there they set out and camped

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Rescue (21:4-9)

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Culture (21:1-3)

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. And Israel vowed a vow to the

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Mentoring (20:22-29)

And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, “Let Aaron be

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Family (20:14-21)

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met: how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time.

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Holy Symbols (20:1-13)

And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.    Now there was no

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Making You Clean (19:1-22)

Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Supporting the Ministry (18:8-32)

Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Iniquity and the Sanctuary (18:1-7)

So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Recognizing the Opportunity for Repentance (17:1-13)

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers’ house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs.

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