Today is the 10th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today.

Every day. Every day. This is my favorite spot around the global campfire. Every day.

Looking forward to it every day. And glad to be here today as we take the next step forward.

And our next step forward leads us back into the book of Numbers.

And we are with the children of Israel who had moved away from Mount Sinai and had moved to the

precipice of entering the promised land. And before entering this land of promise, some spies,

one from each tribe of Israel were sent into the land to spy it out to find out what's up.

What's going on? What kind of people are there? What kind of cities are there? What kind of

agriculture is there? What's up in this promised land as they were preparing to enter?

The spies came back and essentially gave the report that it's really an awesome land.

It's only that we can't possibly take this land. We're grasshoppers compared to the people in the land.

And that is where we left off, like literally with that drama hanging in the air.

And so as we begin our reading from the book of Numbers today, that's where we are.

We are immediately going to feel the response of the Israelites as they get the report that there

are giants in the land. So we're reading from the Christian standard Bible this week.

16.

Then the whole community broke into loud cries. And the people wept that night.

16.

If only we had died in the land of Egypt or if only we had died in this wilderness.

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become

a ponder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt? So they said to one another,

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