Joshua 1-8 - Water and other hazards

The readings - days 70 and 71 - Joshua 1-8

Look at me, just ripping along with the readings and neglecting the tens of readers that are following along. Shame on me. Apologies to everyone, and I'll try to keep up a bit better.

In fact, when I started writing this post, I had intended to just catch up, but 15 chapters is just too many, so I'm going to take it two days' readings at a time until I'm caught up. Hope that's okay.

Deut. 5-10 - so far, so good

The readings - Days 60-61 - Deuteronomy 5-10

So Deuteronomy is progressing...

I'm in an interesting position, because I can't think of a time over the last 60 days when I've felt less motivated to actually make a new post.

It's not because I'm not enjoying the book itself, mind you, because I am, but it's mostly just because so far the book has consisted of nothing but recap from Moses to Israel, so apart from the occasional minor discrepancy between the original account and Moses' retelling, there's just not a lot of new ground to cover.

Num 14-17 - "I don't want to go -- YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!"

The readings - Days 48 & 49 - Numbers 14-17

When we last left the Israelites, they had sent a team of spies into the Promised Land. They saw an awesome spot in general, but one that was occupied by people who clearly appreciated what an awesome spot they had and had built up some pretty solid defenses, etc.

Which, and I believe I'm quoting the original Hebrew here, sucked.

Num. 11-13 - On oases and annoyances

The readings - Day 47 - Numbers 11-13

Well, it's been a long road, but it's finally happened. Ladies and gentlemen, we have narrative!! (Insert Price is Right or Wheel of Fortune winning music here now...)

And almost immediately we get a sort of sense as to maybe why the day-to-day episodes of Israel were less important than precisely where they set up their tents in camp.

Long story short: they're still incredibly annoying, collectively.