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Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Day 68: Further exhortations and instructions

As yesterday - more of the same! I'm late in posting this morning because my wife's ill, so it's fallen to me to make the children and animals ready for the day. All went comparatively smoothly, though more slowly than when Rachel's in charge, but why O why can my son never find socks without help?

Results of obedience and disobedience
Deuteronomy 11:1-7
Study of God’s word imperative
Deuteronomy 11:18-25
Choice between blessing or curse
Deuteronomy 11:26-32
Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed
Deuteronomy 12:1-4
The place of God’s service
Deuteronomy 12:5-32
Punishment of the wicked
Deuteronomy 13:1-11
Idolatrous cities to be destroyed
Deuteronomy 13:12-18

Moses does his best to make it a no brainer for the Israelites. Obey God, and everything will be fine: don’t, and it won’t. He can’t really make it any clearer for them.
The Egyptians worshipped the Nile, and its annual floodings made their land fertile. The Promised Land will be different. There’s no big river to irrigate the land, they will have to depend on the rain from heaven. Moses uses this idea to fix people’s attention on God, saying, you need him to send the rain. So be good.

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