Day 78: The Song of Moses (2026)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's readings, we trace the route of the Israelites in Numbers and hear the song of Moses in Deuteronomy. Fr. Mike reflects on a hard lesson from these passages; that God will allow us to choose something other than him, even though it hurts us. The readings are Numbers 33, Deuteronomy 32, and Psalm 118.
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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, |
| 0:07.3 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. |
| 0:11.4 | The Bible in your podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:14.3 | Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
| 0:18.7 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 78, and we have only three days, including today. We have only three days left in Numbers and Deuteronomy. We have only three days left at the desert wanderings. And on the fourth day, we begin Joshua and conquest and judges. It is a great time. So day 78, we're reading Numbers chapter 33, |
| 0:38.8 | Deuteronomy chapter 32, the song of Moses we heard about yesterday that was going to be |
| 0:42.6 | proclaimed and sung again and against the people of Israel, would not forget. And we're also |
| 0:46.9 | praying Psalm 118. As always, I'm reading from the revised standard version, the second Catholic |
| 0:51.9 | edition of the Bible and using the great adventure Bible. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit |
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| 1:02.3 | app to receive daily episodes. As I said, today is day 78. We're reading Numbers chapter 33, |
| 1:07.7 | Deuteronomy chapter 32 and Psalm 118. The Book of Numbers |
| 1:13.5 | Chapter 33. The stages of Israel's journey from Egypt. These are the stages of the sons of |
| 1:20.6 | Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses |
| 1:25.1 | and Aaron. Moses wrote down their starting places, |
| 1:28.6 | stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages, according to their starting |
| 1:33.0 | places. They set out from Ramseys in the first month, on the 15th day of the first month. |
| 1:38.1 | On the day after the Passover, the sons of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all |
| 1:41.9 | the Egyptians, while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. |
| 1:48.3 | Upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments. |
| 1:52.2 | So the sons of Israel set out from Ramseys and encamped at Sukkoth. |
| 1:56.7 | And they set out from Sukkoth and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. |
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