Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

EXODUS 9-10:
The two chapters we read yesterday included the story of Aaron's staff becoming a serpent, and the plagues of blood, frogs, gnats, and flies.

Note verse in our reading today:

9:19 GNT Now give orders for your livestock
and everything else you have in the open to be put under shelter. Hail
will fall on the people and animals left outside unprotected, and they
will all die.’ ”

Evidently enough time had passed between the plague against the livestock so that the Egyptians were able to buy livestock, and I am sure the people of Israel profited in that!

JOB 35:
This is Elihu's 4th chapter preaching to Job.

JAMES 4:
Yesterday James preached about controlling the tongue, then he taught about the qualities of wisdom from God.

Translation notes:
Observe the footnote for verse 4.

4 Unfaithful people!* Don't you know that to
be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? People who want to be the
world's friends make themselves God's enemies.

*Footnote: 4:4 Greek You adulteresses!

5 Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, “The
spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce [jealous] desires.”

Note: This is about faithfulness to God— using human adultery as a picture of it. That is exactly how God views it, as we will see again in many passages of the Old Testament.