Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today, Moses kind of did my job for me, recapping our journey since the Exodus, but don't worry, I always have plenty to say.

Let's talk about a few things of note from today's reading.

First, Moses recounts all the places they camped. If you've ever had a doubt that scripture was real, this list should help settle that for you.

No author would make up these kind of details in hopes of good book sales, and no one who was trying to sound impressive about his leadership skills would tell you every step

of how this 11-day journey took him 40 years. At the end of chapter 33, we hit some instructions

from God. He tells Moses to instruct the people about some very important business they need to

attend to when they cross the Jordan. They need to drive out everyone who lives there. All of them, all, all of them,

all of them. And all the things they worship, too, tear down their altars and their idols, because if they

don't get rid of everything, some of it is going to come back to haunt them. And on top of that, God will punish them

too. Double whammy. This isn't necessarily a command to kill them, just drive them out.

God knows how easily the hearts of his people are led astray when temptation is near.

In chapter 34, God gives the boundaries of the promised land for the first time. Up until now, we've only known of it generically as Canaan or the Promise Land. There are a few

places used as markers in this layout that you may know of, but probably not by the names used in the

text. So let's walk through them. The salt sea in verse three is the Dead Sea, because while a normal

ocean is 3.5% salt, the Dead Sea is 33.7% salt. It's 10 times as salty. That's why you float when you get

into it. You don't have to try to float in it. You can't not float in it. It floats you whether

you want to float or not, but you want to float. It's pretty cool. The salt concentration is also

the reason nothing can live in the Dead Sea, which is where it got its

modern name. But here's an interesting fact. Ezekiel 47 and Zachariah 14 prophesy about a day

when there will be fresh water in the Dead Sea, and it will be filled with fish. So get your float on while you

can. The Great Sea in verse 6 is the Mediterranean Sea.

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