# Immerse Beginnings Day 137 Year 3 Daily Bible Reading

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Podcast: [Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year](https://stenobird.com/podcast/immerse-bible-reading-experience-nlt-daily-bible-in-a-year-6723192)
Published: 2026-05-17T09:00:00+00:00
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Grasshoppers in Their Own Eyes Miriam and Aaron challenge Moses’ authority—ostensibly over his Cushite wife, but truly over his unique standing before God. The Lord’s response is swift and specific: ‘With Moses I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles.’ Miriam is struck with a skin disease, and Aaron’s desperate plea to Moses reveals the terrible irony—the siblings who questioned Moses’ authority now beg for his intercession. Moses prays five of the most tender words in the Old Testament: ‘O God, please heal her.’ She is healed, but must wait seven days outside the camp. Even forgiveness has consequences. Then comes the reconnaissance of Canaan. Twelve spies, forty days, and a cluster of grapes so enormous it takes two men to carry it. The land is everything God promised—flowing with milk and honey, bursting with fruit. But ten of the twelve see only the giants. ‘We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes,’ they report, ‘and we looked the same to them.’ That phrase is devastating: they had already decided they were small before the giants ever saw them. Only Caleb and Joshua dissent: ‘The Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid.’ But fear is contagious, and faith, that night, was not. The people weep, plot a return to Egypt, and nearly stone the two faithful spies. God’s sentence is measured: forty years of wandering, one year for each day of exploration. The generation that refused to enter the land will die in the wilderness. And then, with grim predictability, the people reverse course and attempt to invade on their own—without Moses, without the ark, without God. They are routed. Disobedience in one direction is not corrected by disobedience in the other. 00:00 Miriam and Aaron Criticize Moses 01:00 God Defends Moses 02:00 Miriam’s Leprosy and Healing 03:00 Twelv…

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