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two hands. And I looked, and behold, you 3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed
had sinned against the LORD your God—had two tablets of stone like the first, and went up
made for yourselves a molded calf! You had the mountain, having the two tablets in my
turned aside quickly from the way which the hand. And He wrote on the tablets according
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LORD had commanded you. Then I took the to the first writing, the Ten Commandments,
two tablets and threw them out of my two which the LORD had spoken to you in the
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hands and broke them before your eyes. And mountain from the midst of the fire in the day
I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to
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forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread me. Then I turned and came down from the
nor drank water, because of all your sin which mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which
you committed in doing wickedly in the sight I had made; and there they are, just as the
of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. For I LORD commanded me.”
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was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure 6 (Now the children of Israel journeyed from
with which the LORD was angry with you, to the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where
destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at Aaron died, and where he was buried; and
that time also. And the LORD was very angry Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his
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with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so stead. From there they journeyed to
I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah,
21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had a land of rivers of water. At that time the LORD
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made, and burned it with fire and crushed it separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of
and ground it very small, until it was as fine as the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the
dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that LORD to minister to Him and to bless in His
descended from the mountain. name, to this day. Therefore Levi has no por-
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22 “Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth tion nor inheritance with his brethren; the
Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your
23 Likewise, when the LORD sent you from God promised him.)
Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess 10 “As at the first time, I stayed in the moun-
the land which I have given you,’ then you tain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also
rebelled against the commandment of the heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not
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LORD your God, and you did not believe Him to destroy you. Then the LORD said to me,
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nor obey His voice. You have been rebellious ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people,
against the LORD from the day that I knew you. that they may go in and possess the land
25 “Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating 12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your
myself, because the LORD had said He would God require of you, but to fear the LORD your
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destroy you. Therefore I prayed to the LORD, God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him,
and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your to serve the LORD your God with all your heart
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people and Your inheritance whom You have and with all your soul, and to keep the com-
redeemed through Your greatness, whom You mandments of the LORD and His statutes
have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. which I command you today for your good?
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, 14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens
and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of belong to the LORD your God, also the earth
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this people, or on their wickedness or their with all that is in it. The LORD delighted only
sin, lest the land from which You brought us in your fathers, to love them; and He chose
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should say, “Because the LORD was not able to their descendants after them, you above all
bring them to the land which He promised peoples, as it is this day. Therefore circumcise
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them, and because He hated them, He has the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked
brought them out to kill them in the wilder-
ness.” Yet they are Your people and Your
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inheritance, whom You brought out by Your
mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’ 10:16 Therefore circumcise…your heart.
“At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Hew Moses called the Israelites to cut away all the
10 for yourself two tablets of stone like the sin in their hearts, as the circumcision surgery
first, and come up to Me on the mountain and cut away the skin.This would leave them with
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make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write a clean relationship to God (see 30:6; Lev.
on the tablets the words that were on the first 26:40,41; Jer. 4:4; 9:25; Rom. 2:29).
tablets, which you broke; and you shall put
them in the ark.’
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