Israel
crossed the Red Sea on the Last Day of Unleavened Bread (day 21) a
picture and an example of God's people being brought out of sin.
Egypt was a portrayed as a type of sin.
When God
proved (assayed) Israel at Marah (day 23 and 24) He said that if Israel
would obey His commandments and statutes He would not do to them what He
did to Egypt. This is one of the proofs that God's laws existed
for His people before the Exodus:
Exodus
15:25-26 And when they came to
Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they
were bitter:
therefore the name of it was called Marah.
(24) And the people
murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,
which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet:
there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved
them, 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the
LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt
give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none
of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:
for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
To understand what the term proved (assayed)
means listen to our sermon on "We Are Assayed".
Proved H5254
nâsâh naw-saw' A primitive
root; to test; by implication to attempt: - adventure,
assay, prove, tempt, try.
A metallurgical assay
is a compositional analysis of an
ore,
metal, or
alloy. The most elaborately accurate, but totally
destructive, precious metal assay is fire-assay. In
the case of fire assaying of gold and platinum ores, the
lengthy time required to carry out an assay generally is
offset by carrying out large numbers of assays
simultaneously The principal advantage of fire assay is that
large samples can be used, and these increase the accuracy
in analysing low yield ores. The sample of rock is
heated in air to about 1000°C
Rocks are made up of one or two minerals. They are categorised into
threes categories that are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
When rocks disintegrate they form soil.
The next
confirmation that our calendar is correct is Exodus 16. Israel
arrived at the Wilderness of Sin and on the 15th day of the second Month
(Iyar which has 29 days) Israel murmurs to Moses and Aaron about food.
God will give them both manna and quail and in doing so will continue to
prove (assay) them and give them His laws (again before mount Sinai) and
to establish His Sabbath day before them:
Exodus
16:1-3 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after
their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the
wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we
had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have
brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.
Exodus 16:11-14 And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of
Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the
morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came
up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the
host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar
frost on the ground.
Exodus
16:21-23 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. And it came to
pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers
for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow
is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will
bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth
over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus
16:27-29 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on
the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 28 And the LORD said
unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? 29
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth
you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his
place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
God
appeared in the Cloud on the Sabbath day (day 15) and told Israel that
at even (after the sun has set, after the Sabbath day has ended on day
15) He would send them quail to eat. Then He would send them manna
to gather the next morning (the first day of the week, day 16).
There were to gather it every day (day 16 through 21) and keep nothing
until the morning. They were to gather it for six days and rest on
the Sabbath (day 22). The manna established to Israel by God what
was to be the work week and the day of rest.
On the next
Friday (preparation day, day 28) Jethro visits Moses and hears all
that God has done for His people. Out of gladness Jethro
sacrifices to God. Jethro, Moses, Aaron and the elders eat before
God. The next day is the Sabbath (the last day of the second month
(day 29)) and Jethro comes and observes Moses judging Israel.
Jethro asks Moses what he is doing and one of the things Moses explains
he is doing is that he is teaching the people the laws of God.
This again is before the law is given to Israel at Mount Sinai.
This is the third time that God is teaching His people His laws before
Mount Sinai:
Exodus
18:13-16 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he
said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou
thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto
me to enquire of God: 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and
I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of
God, and his laws.
Exo 18:17-23
And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest
is not good.
(18) Thou
wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that
is with
thee: for this thing is
too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
(19) Hearken
now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee:
Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes
unto God: (20)
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the
way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
(21) Moreover thou
shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place
such over
them, to be
rulers of thousands, and
rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
(22) And let them
judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
that every
great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they
shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear
the burden
with thee. (23)
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee
so,
then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to
their place in peace.
Num 10:29-32 And Moses said unto Hobab,
the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying
unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou
with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good
concerning Israel. (30) And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will
depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. (31) And he said, Leave us
not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the
wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. (32) And it shall
be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD
shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
Between the
first day and the fourth day Israel departs from Rephidim and come into
the desert of Sinai and camp before Mount Sinai. When they arrive
Moses goes up unto God in the Mount and speaks with God. Moses
will meet with God several times on this day that we are able to
establish as a Thursday the fifth day of the third month (Sivan).
The term "same day" here is in reference to a Thursday, the same day
Israel came out of Egypt (15th day of the first month). God is
ready to enter into a covenant with Israel. The process you will
witness over the rest of these verses in Exodus 19 is a contract that is
being negotiated between God and Israel with Moses as an intermediary.
It is very similar to a purchase contract for a home where you have a
seller, a buyer and a realtor. Over the next five chapters you
will see the negotiation and completion of this contract that is called
the covenant between God and His people Israel. Observe in the
scriptures the following details of this covenant:
1. The parties to the contract
2. The terms of the contract
a. The first offer
b. The first acceptance
c. Additional terms
d. Acceptance of the additional terms
3. The content of the contract
4. Drafting of the contract
5. The dates of negotiation and completion of
the contract
6. Signing of the Contract
7. The celebration after the signing
8. The recording of the contract
9. The contract preserved as a public record
10.The Intermediary
The Date of Negotiation Begins
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus
19:1-3 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth
out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of
Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert
of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped
before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto
him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
The First Offer
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus 19:4-6 Ye have seen
what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and
brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed,
and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom
of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt
speak unto the children of Israel.
The Intermediary
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus 19:7 And Moses came
and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all
these words which the LORD commanded him.
The First Acceptance
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus 19:8-9 And all the
people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we
will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. And
the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that
the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Additional Terms
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus 19:10-14 And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to
morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third
day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the
people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round
about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the
mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be
surely put to death: There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall
surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall
not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the
mount. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
The Intermediary
5th of Sivan
1st Day
Exodus 19:15 And he said unto
the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Additional Negotiations
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
Exodus 19:16-25 And it came
to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the
people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people
out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of
the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of
the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and
God answered him by a voice. And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on
the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the
mount; and Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge
the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of
them perish. And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. And Moses said
unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou
chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. And
the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break
through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. So
Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
Additional Terms - Ten Commandments
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
Exodus
20:1-12 And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God,
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the
sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor
thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 1For in six days the
LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee...
...Exodus 20:16-21 Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
that is thy neighbour's. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and
when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said
unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak
with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for God
is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that
ye sin not. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was.
Note:
Moses says that God has come to prove (assay) His people. In the
process of proving a mineral you bring forth that which is valuable and
cast off that which is worthless
Additional Terms - More Than Just the Ten Commandments
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
.
Exodus
20:21-26 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto
the thick darkness where God was. And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus
thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have
talked with you from heaven. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver,
neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. An altar of earth thou
shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and
thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I
record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. And if thou
wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone:
for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither
shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
discovered thereon.
Exodus
21:1-4 Now these are the
judgments which thou shalt set before them. If thou buy an Hebrew
servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out
free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself:
if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master
have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife
and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by
himself...
....
Exodus 23:32-33 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with
their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto
thee.
Note:
The terms of the contract did not stop at the Ten Commandments, but
continue over the next 4 chapter up to and including Exodus 23.
The Intermediary - Moses Presents the
Final Terms to Israel
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
Exodus
24:1-3 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye
afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and
told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments:
The Final Acceptance
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
Exodus
24:3 ....and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All
the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Drafting of the Contract By Moses
7
th
of Sivan
3rd Day
Exodus
24:4 And Moses wrote all
the words of the LORD,
Note:
Notice in the scriptures that Moses had written all the words of the
Lord first. God did not give His law on the tables of stone first,
but after the covenant was entered into. (see below)
Signing of the Contract By God and Israel
8th of Sivan - Day of Pentecost
4th Day
Exodus
24:4-9 and rose up early
in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the
children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace
offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and
put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And
he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the
people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be
obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with
you concerning all these words.
Note:
The day Moses rose up early was the next morning, the first day of the
week, Sunday, the 50th Day, the Day of Pentecost.
Celebration Between God and Israel
8th of Sivan - Day of Pentecost
4th Day
Exodus
24:9-12 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and
there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone,
and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles
of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and
did eat and drink.
Note:
After the signing of the covenant with God the leaders of Israel join
God in a banquet. This is much like a banquet after a marriage
between a husband and wife. All important contracts are followed
by celebration which includes banquet style food. The meat
prepared here is the oxen that were used for the sacrifices in the
covenant. These were three days of intense and life changing
negotiations followed by the ratification of the covenant on the fourth
day.
The Recording
of the Contract and the
Preservation
of the Contract as a Public Record
8th of Sivan
- Day of Pentecost
4th Day - Moses on the Mount 40 Days and Nights
Exodus
24:12-18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the
mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,
and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. And
Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount
of God. And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come
again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have
any matters to do, let him come unto them. And Moses went up into the
mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the LORD abode
upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day
he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the
glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the
eyes of the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the
cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty
days and forty nights.
Note:
On this Day of Pentecost after the signing of the contract between God
and Israel and after the banquet celebration, God calls Moses up to the
top of Mount Sinai and gave Moses the tables of stone, and a law
and commandments which God had written. The saying "written in
stone" originated here. This is a formal recording of the covenant
between God and Israel. Notice in the scriptures that God did not
give His law on the tables of stone first, but after the covenant was
entered into. Moses had written all the words of the Lord on Day
three after speaking with God. Notice also that there is more than
just the ten commandments agreed to. There are 4 chapters of
additional laws that were included in the covenant. You will also
see and should note that after Moses broke the tables of stone that the
new tables of stone are prepared by Moses and taken up into the mount a
second time for an additional 40 days and nights that God will write
upon a second time that are then brought down and read a second time to
Israel as a witness to what Israel had agreed to.
Note
# 2: When Moses went up on the mount the first time for
the 40 days and nights He also received many more regulations and
statutes that God wanted Israel to accomplish. They are listed in
chapters 25 through 31.
The Recording
of the Contract and the
Preservation
of the Contract as a Public Record
8th of Sivan
- Day of Pentecost
4th Day - Moses on the Mount 40 Days and Nights
Exodus
25:1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it
willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering...
...Exodus
31:16-18 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath,
to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual
covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day
he rested, and was refreshed. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made
an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony,
tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Note:
When Moses went up on the mount the first time for the 40 days and
nights He also received many more regulations and statutes that God
wanted Israel to accomplish. They are listed in chapters 25
through 31.
The Breaking
of the Covenant
17th
of Tamuz
Day 39 of Moses on the Mount 40 Days and Nights
Exodus
32:1-6 And when the
people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people
gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us
gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of
him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and
bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received
them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had
made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he
built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To
morrow is a feast to the LORD. And they rose up early on the morrow, and
offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus
32:7-8 And the
LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou
broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They
have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they
have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have
sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
32:15-16 And Moses
turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the
testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides;
on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were
the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the
tables.
Exodus
32:19-23 And it
came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the
calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the
tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took
the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to
powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel
drink of it. And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee,
that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not
the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set
on mischief. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before
us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus
32:25-29 And when
Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked
unto their shame among their enemies:) Then Moses stood in the gate of
the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And
all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said
unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by
his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and
slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man
his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of
Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every
man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a
blessing this day.
Exodus
32:30-35 And it
came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have
sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I
shall make an atonement for your sin. And Moses returned unto the LORD,
and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them
gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not,
blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the
LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot
out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of
which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:
nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron
made.
Exodus
33:12-23 And Moses
said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and
thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast
said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me
now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight:
and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence
shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If
thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it
be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it
not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy
people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the
LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken:
for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. And he
said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my
goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD
before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will
shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my
face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the LORD said,
Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it
shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a
clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And
I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my
face shall not be seen.
Note:
When Moses went up on the mount the first time for the 40 days and
nights He also received many more regulations and statutes that God
wanted Israel to accomplish. They are listed in chapters 25
through 31.
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