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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 the consecration of Aaron and his sons as priests over the

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tabernacle and the services and sacrifices that they are to offer.

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And today we're going to hear about what the children of Israel were doing while Moses

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was on the mountain receiving the law.

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Alright, let's begin.

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These readings are from Exodus 31, 32 and 33.

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Chapter 31.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri,

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the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled them with the Spirit of God

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and wisdom and understanding and knowledge and all manner of workmanship, to design artistic

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works, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting jewels for setting and carving

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wood and to work in all manner of workmanship.

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And I, indeed I, have appointed with him Aholiab the son of Esamak of the tribe of Dan, and

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I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the gifted artisans, that they may make all that

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I have commanded you, the tabernacle of meeting, the ark of the testimony and the mercy seed

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that is on it, and all the furniture of the tabernacle, the table and its utensils, the

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pure gold lambstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt

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offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base, the garments of ministry, the

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holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests,

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and the anointing oil and sweet incense for the holy place, according to all that I have

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commanded you, they shall do.

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Surely

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my Sabbath is, you shall keep, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations,

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that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

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You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you.

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Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death.

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For whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

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Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.

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Whoever does any work on a Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

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Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout

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their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

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It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever.

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For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested

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and was refreshed.

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And when he had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses two tablets

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of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

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Chapter 32 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed

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coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron and said to him,

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Come, make us gods that shall go before us.

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For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not

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know what has become of him.

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And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives,

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your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.

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So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them

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to Aaron.

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And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool,

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and made a molded calf.

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Then they said, This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said,

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Tomorrow is the feast of the Lord.

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Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings.

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And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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And the Lord said to Moses, Go, get down, for your people whom you brought out of the

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land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them.

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They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,

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This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen these people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people.

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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and I may consume

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them, and I will make of you a great nation.

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Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why does your wrath burn hot

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against your people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power

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and with a mighty hand?

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Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out to harm them, to kill them

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in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?

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Turn from your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to your people.

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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said

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to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land

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that I have spoken of I gift to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.

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So the Lord relented from the harm which he said he would do to his people.

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And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were

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in his hand.

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The tablets were written on both sides.

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On the one side and on the other they were written.

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Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved

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on the tablets.

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And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, there is

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a noise of war in the camp.

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But he said, it is not the noise of the shout of victory, nor the noise of the cry of defeat,

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but the sound of singing I hear.

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So it was as soon as he came near the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing.

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So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them

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at the foot of the mountain.

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Then he took the calf, which they had made, burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder,

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and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

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And Moses said to Aaron, what did these people do to you, that you have brought so great

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a sin upon them?

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So Aaron said, do not let the anger of my Lord become hot.

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You know the people that they are set on evil.

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For they said to me, make us gods that shall go before us.

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As for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what

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has become of him.

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And I said to them, whoever has gold, let them break it off.

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So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.

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Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained, for Aaron had not restrained them to their

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shame among their enemies, then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said, whoever

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is on the Lord's side, come to me.

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Then all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him, and he said to them, thus

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says the Lord God of Israel, let every man put his sword on his side and go in and out

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from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every

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man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

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So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and about three thousand men of

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the people fell that day.

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Then Moses said, consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, that he may bestow on you a blessing

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this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother.

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Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, you have committed a great

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sin, so now I will go up to the Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.

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Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, O these people have committed a great sin,

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and have made for themselves a God of gold, yet now if you will forgive their sin, but

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if not, I pray, blot me out of your book which you have written.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.

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Now therefore go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you.

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Behold my angel shall go before you.

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Nevertheless in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their

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sin.

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So the Lord plagued the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron made.

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Chapter 33

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Then the Lord said to Moses, depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you

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have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac

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and Jacob, saying, to your descendants I will give it, and I will send my angel before you,

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and I will drive out the Canaanite, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,

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and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

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Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst, lest I

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consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.

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And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments,

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for the Lord had said to Moses, say that the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked

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people, I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you.

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Now therefore take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.

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So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

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Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it

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the tabernacle of meeting.

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And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting

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which was outside the camp.

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So it was when Moses went out to the tabernacle that all the people rose, and each man stood

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at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.

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And it came to pass when Moses entered the tabernacle that the pillar of cloud descended

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and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the Lord talked with Moses.

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All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people

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rose and worshipped each man in his tent door.

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So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend, and he would return

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to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man did not depart from the

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tabernacle.

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Then Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, bring up these people, but you have

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not let me know whom you will send with me.

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Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.

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Now therefore I pray, if I have found grace in your sight, show me now your way, that

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I may know you, and that I may find grace in your sight, and consider that this nation

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is your people.

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And he said, My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.

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Then he said to him, If your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

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For how then will it be known that your people and I have found grace in your sight, except

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you go with us?

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So we shall be separate, your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face

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of the earth.

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So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you have spoken, for you have

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found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.

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And he said, Please show me your glory.

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Then he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name

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of the Lord before you.

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I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will

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have compassion.

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But he said, You cannot see my face, for no man shall see me and live.

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And the Lord said, Here is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

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So it shall be, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock,

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and will cover you with my hand while I pass by.

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Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.

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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.