Bible Readings for May 26th Numbers 35 | Psalm 79 | Isaiah 27 | 1 John 5 In Numbers 35, Yahweh lays out a plan for creating cities of refuge—six of the forty-eight cities that the Levites would inhabit (Num. 35:6–7). These cities of refuge were a place for a person to...
Bible Readings for May 25th Numbers 34 | Psalm 78:38–72 | Isaiah 26 | 1 John 4 In Numbers 34, Yahweh commands Moses to prepare Israel in two ways to enter into the Promised Land—first, by spelling out the boundaries of the land that Israel would inhabit and, second,...
Bible Readings for May 24th Numbers 33 | Psalm 78:1–37 | Isaiah 25 | 1 John 3 In Numbers 33, we see the whole story of Yahweh’s covenant with his people laid out in brief, recounting every event from the day of their redemption out of the hand of Egypt (Num. 33:3) all...
Bible Readings for May 23rd Numbers 32 | Psalm 77 | Isaiah 24 | 1 John 2 The story in Numbers 32 is more important than we might realize at first. In fact, we will continue to hear echoes of the settling of Reuben and Gad in Gilead, the land east of the Jordan,...
Bible Readings for May 22nd Numbers 31 | Psalm 75–76 | Isaiah 23 | 1 John 1 The text of Numbers 31 raises many difficult questions about subjects like warfare, genocide, plundering, and slavery. Yahweh instructs Moses to “avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites”...
