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And I will take sickness away from the midst of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw
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of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be God, and they ate and drank.
barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of 12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to
your days. Me on the mountain and be there; and I will
27 “I will send My fear before you, I will cause give you tablets of stone, and the law and com-
confusion among all the people to whom you mandments which I have written, that you
come, and will make all your enemies turn may teach them.”
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their backs to you. And I will send hornets 13 So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua,
before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. 14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us
29 I will not drive them out from before you in until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and
one year, lest the land become desolate and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty,
the beasts of the field become too numerous let him go to them.” Then Moses went up
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for you. Little by little I will drive them out into the mountain, and a cloud covered the
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from before you, until you have increased, and mountain.
you inherit the land. And I will set your 16 Now the glory of the LORD rested on
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bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.
and from the desert to the River. For I will de- And on the seventh day He called to Moses
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liver the inhabitants of the land into your out of the midst of the cloud. The sight of the
hand, and you shall drive them out before you. glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on
32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor the top of the mountain in the eyes of the chil-
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with their gods. They shall not dwell in your dren of Israel. So Moses went into the midst
land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if of the cloud and went up into the mountain.
you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare And Moses was on the mountain forty days
to you.” and forty nights.
Now He said to Moses, “Come up to
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Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
worship from afar. And Moses alone shall
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come near the LORD, but they shall not come T he heavens declare the glory
of God;
near; nor shall the people go up with him.”
3 So Moses came and told the people all the And the firmament shows
His handiwork.
words of the LORD and all the judgments. And 2 Day unto day utters speech,
all the people answered with one voice and And night unto night reveals knowledge.
said, “All the words which the LORD has said 3 There is no speech nor language
we will do.” And Moses wrote all the words of
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the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, 4 Where their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the
and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, earth,
and twelve pillars according to the twelve And their words to the end of the world.
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tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men of
the children of Israel, who offered burnt offer- In them He has set a tabernacle
ings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to for the sun,
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the LORD. And Moses took half the blood and 5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out
put it in basins, and half the blood he sprin- of his chamber,
kled on the altar. Then he took the Book of And rejoices like a strong man to run
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the Covenant and read in the hearing of the its race.
people. And they said, “All that the LORD has
said we will do, and be obedient.” And Moses
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took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and
said, “This is the blood of the covenant which 19:1–6 The testimony of the universe comes
the LORD has made with you according to all forth consistently and clearly, but sinful
these words.” mankind persistently resists it. For this reason,
9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, general revelation cannot convert sinners,but
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, it does make them highly accountable (see
10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was Rom. 1:18ff.). Salvation comes ultimately only
under His feet as it were a paved work of sap- through special revelation, i.e., as the Word of
phire stone, and it was like the very heavens God is effectually applied by the Spirit of God.
in its clarity. But on the nobles of the children
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