Today is the 24th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is

fantastic to be here with you today as we gather and take the next step forward on

our journey through the Scriptures. Yesterday we navigated ourselves into some

new territory, the Book of Deuteronomy. We talked about it, talked about what we're moving

through here, the final discourses of Moses. Before Moses becomes a part of the history of the

children of Israel and as the children of Israel prepare to move forward under new leadership

without Moses. So Moses has gathered the people to make sure that nothing that needs to be said

remains unsaid and that has become the contents of the Book of Deuteronomy. And so let's pick up

with Moses speaking to the children of Israel. Today we'll read Deuteronomy chapters 2 and 3.

Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness on the way to the Red Sea just as the Lord told me to do.

Deatoring around Mount Seer for a long time. At this point the Lord said to me,

you have circled around this mountain long enough, now turn north, instruct these people as follows.

You are about to cross the border of your relatives, the descendants of Esau who inhabit Seer.

They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully. Do not be hostile toward them,

because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seer as an

inheritance for Esau. You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them. All along the way,

I the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through

this great wilderness. These 40 years I have been with you, you have lacked nothing.

So we turned away from our relatives, the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seer,

turning from the route of the Rift Valley which comes up from Elat and Ezion Giberra

and traveling the way of the wilderness of Moab. Then the Lord said to me,

do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory.

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