Day 68: The Waters of Meribah (2026)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike describes the miracle of the waters of Meribah that God performs for his people in the wilderness. He also explains the logic behind the laws God gives his people to restore their morality as they learn to live in relationship with each other. Today we read Numbers 19-20, Deuteronomy 21, and Psalm 100.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, |
| 0:07.9 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a |
| 0:12.3 | year podcast is brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the |
| 0:17.4 | way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 68, and we are reading today from Numbers chapter 19 and chapter 20, kind of a big chapter. 19 obviously is important. All the chapters of the Bible are important, but Numbers Chapter 20 is kind of critical in when it comes to the story. We're also reading from Deuteronomy chapter 21 in Psalm 100. |
| 0:39.6 | We're praying Psalm 100. |
| 0:40.8 | As always, I am reading from the great adventure, Bible, from Ascension. |
| 0:44.5 | The translation it is is the revised standard version second Catholic edition. |
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| 0:59.0 | particular podcast, please feel free to do that. Again, it is day 68. We're reading from Numbers |
| 1:04.2 | 19 and 20, Deuteronomy 21, and we are praying Psalm 100. Numbers chapter 19 and 20. |
| 1:13.4 | Chapter 19. |
| 1:14.8 | Ceremony of the red heifer. |
| 1:17.1 | Now the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, |
| 1:20.0 | this is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded. |
| 1:23.3 | Tell the sons of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, |
| 1:28.3 | and upon which a yoke has never come. And you shall give her to Eliezer the priest, and she shall be |
| 1:34.0 | taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him, and Eliezer the priest shall take some of her |
| 1:38.5 | blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting |
| 1:42.3 | seven times, and the heifer shall be burned in his sight, her skin, her flesh, and her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. And the heifer shall be burned |
| 1:44.8 | in his sight. Her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with all her dung, shall be burned. And the priest |
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