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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

And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth. And they set out from Oboth

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was

And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation,

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother

And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin

Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “This is the statute of the law

Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions

So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father's house with you

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them

And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle…These are the records

Moses might understandably be nervous, as would we be, but God is asking him to trust

There was a belief in this culture that knowing someone's name gave you some influence

Can you imagine a mother's anguish at knowing that her son will be discovered soon