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heaven for clearness. And Moses went up into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up to the top of the mount. And Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water, until he had made an end of communing with the Lord upon mount Sinai. And it came to pass, when the Lord had made an end of communing with Moses upon mount Sinai, that he gave unto Moses the two tables of testimony, even the tables of stone, written with the finger of God. And the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other side were they written.

And when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in his hand, he called all the children of Israel, and they came nigh unto him; and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

EXODUS XXIII, XXXII

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, they gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in your ears, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! And Aaron built an altar before it; and he made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be 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.

Now after forty days Moses came down from the mount. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp! And Moses said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing. And when he was come into the camp, Moses took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the people drink of it.

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Ye have sinned a great sin! and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin. And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god 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, Go now, and lead this people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee. Behold, I send my Messenger before thee, even the angel of my presence, to keep thee in the way. Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; rebel not against him; for if ye rebel against him, it will surely be a snare unto thee, as ye have seen this day.

EXODUS XXXIII, XXXIV

And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying, If now I have found favour in thy sight, shew me, I pray thee, thy ways, that I may know thee. Shew me, I beseech thee, thy glory. And the Lord said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live. But, behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with mine hand until I have passed by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back; but my face shall not be seen. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, and forgiving iniquity and transgression. And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. And he said, If now I

have found favour in thy sight, O Lord, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

EXODUS XXXV, XXXVI

And Moses gathered the people together, and said unto them, Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord, wherewith to make him a sanctuary; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering unto the Lord. And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whose spirit made him willing, and brought the Lord's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought gold and silver in abundance. And every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. And all the women that were wisehearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun. Thus they brought a freewill offering unto the Lord; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing.

And Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, men filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship: and they received of Moses all the offering which the people had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary.

THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS

LEVITICUS XIX, XXVI

Deuteronomy x, xxii, xxiv

Now these are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

Thou shalt reverence every man his father and his mother. Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and the face of the old man shalt thou honour.

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Thou shalt not vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of the strangers that are in thy land: thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their

cry.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in thy land, he

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