13 evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it 14 for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.

15

And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were 16 they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, 17 graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in 18 the camp. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome : but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake 20 them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of 21 Israel drink of it. And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they 23 are set on evil. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become

of him. And I said unto them, Whosoever 24
hath any gold, let them break it off; so they
gave it me: and I cast it into the fire, and
there came out this calf. And when Moses 25
saw that the people were broken loose; for
Aaron had let them loose for a 'derision among
their enemies: then Moses stood in the gate 26
of the camp, and said, Whoso is on the LORD'S
side, let him come unto me. And all the sons.
of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, 27
the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword
upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to
gate throughout the camp, and slay every man
his brother, and every man his companion, and
every man his neighbour. And the sons of 28
Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about
three thousand men. And Moses said, 'Con- 29
secrate yourselves to-day to the LORD, 'yea,
every man against his son, and against his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a
blessing this day. And it came to pass on 30
the morrow, that Moses said unto the people,
Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go
up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make
atonement for your sin. And Moses returned 31
unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and have made them gods
of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their 32
sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of
thy book which thou hast written. And the 33

LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book.
And now go, lead the people unto the place 34
of which I have spoken unto thee: behold,
mine angel shall go before thee: neverthe-
less in the day when I visit, I will visit their

35 sin upon them. And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

33 I

And the LORD spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will 2 I give it: and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked 4 people: lest I consume thee in the way. And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his 5 ornaments. And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that 6 I may know what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.

7

Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tent of 8 meeting, which was without the camp. And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and the

1 Or, him whom

LORD spake with Moses. And all the people 10
saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the
Tent: and all the people rose up and wor-
shipped, every man at his tent door. And 11
the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a
man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned
again into the camp: but his minister Joshua,
the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out
of the Tent.

And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou 12
sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou
hast not let me know 'whom thou wilt send with
me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name,
and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found 13
grace in thy sight, shew me now thy ways, that
I may know thee, to the end that I
may find
grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation
is thy people. And he said, My presence shall 14
go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he 15
said unto him, If thy presence go not with me,
carry us not up hence. For wherein now shall 16
it be known that I have found grace in thy
sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou
goest with us, so that we be separated, I and
thy people, from all the people that are upon
the face of the earth?

And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do 17 this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee

by name.
And he said, Shew me, I pray thee, 18
thy glory. And he said, I will make all my 19
goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim
the name of the LORD before thee; and I will
be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and
will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for 20
man shall not see me and live. And the LORD 21

said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou 22 shalt stand upon the rock: and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee 23 with my hand until I have passed by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back but my face shall not be seen.

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And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were 2 on the first tables, which thou brakest. And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself 3 there to me on the top of the mount.

4

And

stood with him called upon dc. 2 Or, Jehovah

there, and

by name

no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and 5 took in his hand two tables of stone. And the LORD descended in the cloud, 'and stood 1Or, and he with him there, and proclaimed the name of 6 the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth; 7 'keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving in- See ch. xx. iquity and transgression and sin: and that 5, 6. will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third 8 and upon the fourth generation. And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the 9 earth, and worshipped. And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us;