Bible Reading
May 7
The World English Bible
May
7
Deuteronomy
29, 30
Deu
29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deu
29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all
that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and
to all his servants, and to all his land;
Deu
29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those
great wonders:
Deu
29:4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day.
Deu
29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have
not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
Deu
29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong
drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Deu
29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck
them:
Deu
29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the
Manassites.
Deu
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
you may prosper in all that you do.
Deu
29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your
heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men
of Israel,
Deu
29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the
midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who
draws your water;
Deu
29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and
into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
Deu
29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people,
and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Deu
29:15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
Deu
29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
Deu
29:17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood
and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Deu
29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to
serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a
root that bears gall and wormwood;
Deu
29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
Deu
29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is
written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his
name from under the sky.
Deu
29:21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written
in this book of the law.
Deu
29:22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after
you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which
Yahweh has made it sick;
Deu
29:23 and that
the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and
a burning, that
it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deu
29:24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to
this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
Deu
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
Deu
29:26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
Deu
29:27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land,
to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
Deu
29:28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
at this day.
Deu
29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we
may do all the words of this law.
Deu
30:1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has
driven you,
Deu
30:2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children,
with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Deu
30:3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deu
30:4 If any of
your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there
will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you
back:
Deu
30:5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good,
and multiply you above your fathers.
Deu
30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of
your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, that you may live.
Deu
30:7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and
on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deu
30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day.
Deu
30:9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your
hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock,
and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
Deu
30:10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul.
Deu
30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Deu
30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for
us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it?
Deu
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
Deu
30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it.
Deu
30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and
death and evil;
Deu
30:16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and
his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your
God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
30:17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deu
30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you
shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the
Jordan to go in to possess it.
Deu
30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse:
therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Deu
30:20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to
him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may
dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
The
laws of nature have been discovered through extensive scientific
investigation—gathering mounds and mounds of evidence, all of which has
proven consistently to point to one conclusion. They are, by definition,
a concluding statement that has been drawn from the scientific
evidence, and therefore, are in keeping with the rule of logic known as
the Law of Rationality (Ruby, 1960, pp. 130-131). If anything can be
said to be “scientific,” it is the laws of science, and to hold to a
view or theory that contradicts the laws of science is, by definition,
irrational, since such a theory would contradict the evidence from
science.