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Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
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Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.”
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But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?”
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But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
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But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,
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hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
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Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
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(The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
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When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.
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No! Have only the men go and worship the Lord, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.
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Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
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Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”
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The Song of Moses and Miriam
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.
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Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”
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Manna and Quail
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
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Water From the Rock
The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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At Mount Sinai
On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.
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After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
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and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
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Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
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The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up
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Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
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but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
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Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
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But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
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Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”
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and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.
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At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.
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But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
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Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
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Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the Lord.”
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When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
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Moses replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.”
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He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”
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The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
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So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.
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But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
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The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.
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Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
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Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
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So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.
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maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
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“Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
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The Radiant Face of Moses
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.
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Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
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At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.
