Today's Bible Reading, Tuesday 6th March 2018

 - NUMBERS 12 -

1.Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

2.So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.

3.(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)

4.Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.

5.Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.

6.Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.

7.Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house.

8.I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?”

9.So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed.

10.And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.

11.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.

12.Please do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”

13.So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!”

14.Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”

15.So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.

16.And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.


 - NUMBERS 13 -

1.And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2.“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.”

3.So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

4.Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

5.from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

6.from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

7.from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

8.from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

9.from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

10.from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

11.from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;

12.from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

13.from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;

14.from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

15.from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

16.These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

17.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,

18.and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

19.whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;

20.whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

21.So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

22.And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

23.Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

24.The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.

25.And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

26.Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27.Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

28.Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

29.The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

30.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.”

31.But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

32.And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

33.There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”



- II CORINTHIANS 1:12 - 2:11 -

 12.For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

13.For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end

14.(as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15.And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit—

16.to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.

17.Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?

18.But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.

19.For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.

20.For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

21.Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

22.who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

23.Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

24.Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

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1 .But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

2.For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

3.And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

4.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

5.But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.

6.This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,

7.so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

8.Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

9.For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

10.Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

11.lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.