August 4, 2027

1The LORD said to Moses: 2Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the Israelites. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, every one a leader among them. 25Their Report. They returned from reconnoitering the land forty days later. 26Proceeding directly to Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, they made a report to them and to the whole community, showing them the fruit of the land. 27They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit. 28However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there. 29Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the sea and the banks of the Jordan.” 30Caleb, however, quieted the people before Moses and said, “We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly prevail over it.” 31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us.” 32They spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had reconnoitered, saying, “The land that we went through and reconnoitered is a land that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge. 33There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.” 1At this, the whole community broke out with loud cries, and the people wept into the night. 26The LORD also said to Moses and Aaron: 27How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites against me. 28Tell them: “By my life”—oracle of the LORD—“I will do to you just what I have heard you say. 29Here in the wilderness your dead bodies shall fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, enrolled in your registration, who grumbled against me, 34Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me. 35I, the LORD, have spoken; and I will surely do this to this entire wicked community that conspired against me: here in the wilderness they shall come to their end and there they will die.”

6B - We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty. 7I Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea. 13II But they soon forgot all he had done; they had no patience for his plan. 14In the desert they gave in to their cravings, tempted God in the wasteland. 21They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, 22Amazing deeds in the land of Ham, fearsome deeds at the Red Sea. 23He would have decreed their destruction, had not Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destroying anger.

16Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, exclaiming, “A great prophet has arisen in our midst,” and “God has visited his people.”

21Then Jesus went from that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” 24He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25But the woman came and did him homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” 27She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” 28Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.