Bible in a Year.

On the sixty-second day, we witness the internal opposition to Moses and the people's disbelief in the face of the promised land. Numbers 12 reveals the envy of Miriam and Aaron, while Numbers 13 reveals the spies' fear of the giants. Deuteronomy 11 highlights the choice between blessing and curse according to obedience to the law. Psalm 94 reinforces that God is a just judge who does not ignore the cry of the oppressed.

Chapter 12

1. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

2. And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? hath he not also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,

3. (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)

4. Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,

5. The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,

6. He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

7. But it is not so with my servant Moses a who is most faithful in all my house:

8. For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

9. And being angry with them he went away:

10. The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,

11. He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

12. Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

13. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: O God, I beseech thee heal her.

14. And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and after wards she shall be called again.

15. Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days : and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called again.

Chapter 13

1. And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

2. And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

3. Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

4. Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

5. Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.

6. Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hurl.

7. Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

8. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

9. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.

10. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.

11. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.

12. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.

13. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

14. Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.

15. Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.

16. Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.

17. These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.

18. And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,

19. View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:

20. The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:

21. The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the first ripe grapes are fit to be eaten.

22. And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.

23. And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.

24. And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:

25. Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.

26. And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

27. And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:

28. And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:

29. But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

30. Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.

31. In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.

32. But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.

33. And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.

34. There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God. his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,

3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his land,

4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:

5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you came to this place:

6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

6. 6ee therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which I shall set this day before you.

7. Your eyes have seen all the greet works of the Lord, that he hath done,

8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,

9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.

10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.

11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.

12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.

13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:

14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,

15. And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.

16. Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

17. And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.

18. Lay up these my words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

19. Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, end when thou liest down and risest up.

20. Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:

21. That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

22. For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,

23. The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

24. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders.

25. None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.

26. Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:

27. A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

28. A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your. God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not.

29. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:

30. Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the plain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that reacheth and entereth far.

31. For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.

32. 32

1. The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

2. Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.

3. How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

4. Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

5. Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

6. They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

8. Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

13. That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked.

14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

16. Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

17. Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

18. If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.

20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

21. They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

22. But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.

23. And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.