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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about how God called Moses and the Israelites to come to the holy mountain

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and then God called Moses to come up the mountain and how he received the Ten Commandments and

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he began to give him the law.

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Today we're going to hear about the rest of the law and how the Israelites received the

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law when Moses comes down from the mountain to tell them.

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Alright, let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Exodus 22, 23, and 24.

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Chapter 22

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If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it and sells it, he shall restore five oxen

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for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

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If the thief is found breaking in and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no

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guilt for his bloodshed.

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If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed.

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He should make full restitution.

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If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep,

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he shall restore double.

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If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed, and lets loose his animal and it feeds

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in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best

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of his own vineyard.

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If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain, or

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the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

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If a man delivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of

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the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges

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to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor's goods.

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For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or

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for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall

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come before the judges, and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

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If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and

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it dies, is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing it, then an oath of the Lord shall be between

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them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor's goods.

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Then the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.

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But if, in fact, it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.

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If it is torn to pieces by a beast, then he shall bring it as evidence, and he shall not

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make good what was torn.

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And if a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it becomes injured or dies, the owner

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of it not being with it, he shall surely make it good.

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If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good.

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If it was hired, it came for its hire.

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If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely pay the

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bride price for her to be his wife.

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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the

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bride price of virgins.

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You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

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Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

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He who sacrifices to any god except the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

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You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him.

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For you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

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If you afflict them in any way and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,

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and my wrath will become hot and I will kill you with the sword.

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Your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

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If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like

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the money lender to him.

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You shall not charge him interest.

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If you ever take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before

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the sun goes down.

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For that is his only covering.

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It is his garment for his skin.

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What will he sleep in?

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And it will be that when he cries to me, I will hear for I am gracious.

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You shall not revile God nor curse a ruler of your people.

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You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce or your juices, the first

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born of your sons you shall give to me.

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Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep.

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It shall be with its mother seven days.

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On the eighth day you shall give it to me.

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And you shall be holy men to me.

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You shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field.

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You shall throw it to the dogs.

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Chapter 23

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You shall not circulate a false report.

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Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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You shall not follow a crowd to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn

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aside after many to pervert justice.

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You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute.

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If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back

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to him again.

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If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden and you would refrain

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from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

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You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.

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Keep yourself far from a false matter.

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Do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

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And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the

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righteous.

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Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger because you

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were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, but the seventh year you shall

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let it rest and lie fallow.

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That the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field may

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eat.

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In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

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Six days you shall do your work and on the seventh day you shall rest.

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That your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and a stranger

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may be refreshed.

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And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods,

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nor let it be heard from your mouth.

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Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.

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You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.

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You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you at the time appointed in

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the month of Abib.

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For in it you came out of Egypt, none shall appear before me empty.

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And a feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labor which you have sown in the field.

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And a feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit

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of your labors from the field.

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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the fat of

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my sacrifice remain until morning.

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The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord

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your God.

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You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Behold, I send an angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place

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which I have prepared.

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Beware of him and obey his voice.

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Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

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But if you indeed obey his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your

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enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

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For my angel will go before you and bring you into the Amorites and the Hittites and

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the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I will cut

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them off.

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You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but

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you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

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So you shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and

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I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

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No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land.

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I will fulfill the number of your days.

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I will send my fear before you.

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I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies

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turn their backs to you.

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And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites

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and the Hittites from before you.

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I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate

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and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

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Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you have increased and you

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inherit the land.

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And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the Sea Philistia, and from the desert

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to the river.

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For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them

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out before you.

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You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me.

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For if you serve their gods, it will surely be as near to you.

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Chapter 24

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Now he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy

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of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.

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And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near, nor shall the

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people go up with him.

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So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments.

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And all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD has

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said we will do.

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Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and he rose early in the morning, and built

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an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes

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of Israel.

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Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed

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peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.

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And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled

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on the altar.

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Then he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people, and he

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said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.

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And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, This is the blood of

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the covenant, which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.

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Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

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and they saw the God of Israel, and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work

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of sapphire stone.

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And it was like the very heavens in its clarity.

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And on the nobles of the children of Israel he did not lay his hand.

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So they saw God, and they ate and drank.

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Then the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and be there, and I will

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give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you

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may teach them.

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So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

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And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we come back to you.

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Indeed Aaron and Hor are with you.

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If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.

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Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.

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Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.

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And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

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The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain

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in the eyes of the children of Israel.

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So Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain.

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And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.