WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.950 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.053 --> 00:00:04.413 Day 100 and 16 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:08.800 When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:12.100 they gathered around Aaron, come on. 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:14.890 They said, make us some gods who can lead us. 00:00:15.460 --> 00:00:18.100 We don't know what happened to this fellow Moses who brought 00:00:18.105 --> 00:00:19.540 us here from the land of Egypt. 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.810 So Aaron said, take the gold rings from the ears of your wives and sons 00:00:25.810 --> 00:00:28.180 and daughters and bring them to me. 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.190 All the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron. 00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:39.370 Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down and molded it into the shape of a calf. 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:45.700 When the people saw it, they exclaimed, oh, Israel, these are the gods who 00:00:45.700 --> 00:00:47.860 brought you out of the land of Egypt. 00:00:48.610 --> 00:00:53.860 Aaron saw how excited the people were, so he built an altar in front of the calf. 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.300 Then he announced tomorrow will be a festival to the Lord. 00:00:59.260 --> 00:01:02.170 The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:03.820 offerings and peace offerings. 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:08.680 After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and 00:01:08.685 --> 00:01:10.540 they indulged in pagan revelry. 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.670 The Lord told Moses, quick, go down the mountain. 00:01:16.090 --> 00:01:20.080 Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:24.670 How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live. 00:01:25.330 --> 00:01:28.570 They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have 00:01:28.570 --> 00:01:30.880 bowed down and sacrificed to it. 00:01:31.570 --> 00:01:33.880 They are saying, these are your gods. 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:37.600 Oh, Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt? 00:01:38.620 --> 00:01:43.270 Then the Lord said, I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these 00:01:43.270 --> 00:01:47.710 people are now leave me alone so my fierce anger can blaze against 00:01:47.710 --> 00:01:49.690 them, and I will destroy them. 00:01:50.230 --> 00:01:54.010 Then I will make you Moses into a great nation. 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:58.340 But Moses tried to pacify the Lord his God. 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:01.730 Oh Lord, he said. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.250 Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from 00:02:06.250 --> 00:02:10.420 the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand? 00:02:10.990 --> 00:02:16.330 Why let the Egyptians say their God rescued them with the evil intention of 00:02:16.330 --> 00:02:20.800 slaughtering them in the mountains and wiping them from the face of the earth? 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:23.800 Turn away from your fierce anger. 00:02:24.250 --> 00:02:27.070 Change your mind about this terrible disaster you have 00:02:27.070 --> 00:02:28.480 threatened against your people. 00:02:29.245 --> 00:02:32.665 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 00:02:33.265 --> 00:02:38.185 You bound yourself with an oath to them saying, I will make your descendants 00:02:38.185 --> 00:02:43.585 as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will give them all of this land that 00:02:43.590 --> 00:02:48.115 I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever. 00:02:48.775 --> 00:02:52.795 So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had 00:02:52.795 --> 00:02:54.625 threatened to bring on his people. 00:02:56.320 --> 00:02:58.810 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain. 00:02:59.350 --> 00:03:03.850 He held in his hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant. 00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:08.170 They were inscribed on both sides front and back. 00:03:09.010 --> 00:03:10.870 These tablets were God's work. 00:03:11.350 --> 00:03:14.170 The words on them were written by God himself. 00:03:15.430 --> 00:03:18.760 When Joshua heard the boisterous noise of the people shouting 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:21.460 below them, he exclaimed to Moses. 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:23.890 It sounds like war in the camp. 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:30.280 But Moses replied, no, it's not a shout of victory nor the wailing of defeat. 00:03:30.910 --> 00:03:33.040 I hear the sound of a celebration. 00:03:34.390 --> 00:03:37.750 When they came near the camp, Moses saw the calf in the 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:40.090 dancing, and he burned with anger. 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:45.160 He threw the stone tablets to the ground, smashing them at the foot of the mountain. 00:03:45.700 --> 00:03:47.920 He took the calf they had made and burned it. 00:03:48.430 --> 00:03:51.970 Then he grounded into powder, threw it into the water, and 00:03:51.970 --> 00:03:53.710 forced the people to drink it. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.490 Finally he turned to Aaron and demanded, what did these people do to you to make 00:04:00.490 --> 00:04:02.740 you bring such terrible sin upon them? 00:04:03.940 --> 00:04:05.200 Don't get so upset. 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:05.800 My lord. 00:04:06.190 --> 00:04:10.060 Aaron replied, you yourself know how evil these people are. 00:04:10.600 --> 00:04:12.910 They said to me, make us Gods. 00:04:12.910 --> 00:04:13.720 Who will lead us? 00:04:14.260 --> 00:04:16.960 We don't know what happened to this fellow Moses who brought 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:18.460 us here from the land of Egypt. 00:04:19.210 --> 00:04:23.050 So I told them, whoever has gold jewelry, take it off. 00:04:23.710 --> 00:04:29.170 When they brought it to me, I simply threw it into the fire, and out came this calf. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.010 Moses saw that Aaron had let the people get completely out of control, much 00:04:36.010 --> 00:04:37.930 to the amusement of their enemies. 00:04:38.620 --> 00:04:43.750 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, all of you who are on the 00:04:43.750 --> 00:04:46.660 Lord's side, come here and join me. 00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:49.990 And all the Levites gathered around him. 00:04:50.605 --> 00:04:55.405 Moses told them, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:04:56.155 --> 00:04:59.785 Each of you take your swords and go back and forth from one 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:01.105 end of the camp to the other. 00:05:01.885 --> 00:05:05.845 Kill everyone, even your brothers friends and neighbors. 00:05:06.295 --> 00:05:11.625 The Levites obeyed Moses command and about 3000 people died that day. 00:05:12.985 --> 00:05:17.785 Then Moses told the Levites, today, you have ordained yourselves for the 00:05:17.785 --> 00:05:20.425 service of the Lord, for you obeyed him. 00:05:20.455 --> 00:05:24.625 Even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers today, 00:05:24.715 --> 00:05:26.305 you have earned a blessing. 00:05:29.035 --> 00:05:32.995 The next day, Moses said to the people, you have committed a 00:05:32.995 --> 00:05:36.865 terrible sin, but I will go back up to the Lord on the mountain. 00:05:37.315 --> 00:05:40.915 Perhaps I will be able to obtain forgiveness for your sin. 00:05:42.580 --> 00:05:46.930 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, oh, what a terrible 00:05:46.930 --> 00:05:48.580 sin These people have committed. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.880 They have made Gods of gold for themselves. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.820 But now if you will only forgive their sin, but if not, erase my 00:05:57.820 --> 00:06:02.410 name from the record you have written, but the Lord replied to 00:06:02.410 --> 00:06:08.140 Moses, no, I will erase the name of everyone who has sinned against me. 00:06:08.770 --> 00:06:12.400 Now go lead the people to the place I told you about. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:18.640 Look, my angel will lead the way before you and when I come to call the 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:23.380 people to account, I will certainly hold them responsible for their sins. 00:06:25.300 --> 00:06:29.260 Then the Lord sent a great plague upon the people because they had 00:06:29.260 --> 00:06:31.480 worshiped the cath Aaron had made. 00:06:32.395 --> 00:06:35.155 The Lord said to Moses, get going. 00:06:35.365 --> 00:06:40.495 You and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt go up to the land I swore 00:06:40.495 --> 00:06:43.285 to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 00:06:43.885 --> 00:06:49.795 I told them I will give this land to your descendants and I will send an angel 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:51.925 before you to drive out the Canaanites. 00:06:52.195 --> 00:06:59.005 Amorites, Hittites, parasites, hives and cytes go up to this land 00:06:59.035 --> 00:07:00.685 that flows with milk and honey. 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:06.610 But I will not travel among you for you are a stubborn and rebellious people. 00:07:07.420 --> 00:07:11.710 If I did, I would surely destroy you along the way. 00:07:13.210 --> 00:07:17.560 When the people heard these stern words, they went into mourning and stopped 00:07:17.565 --> 00:07:19.990 wearing their jewelry and fine clothes. 00:07:20.620 --> 00:07:23.020 For the Lord had told Moses to tell them. 00:07:23.575 --> 00:07:26.905 You are a stubborn and rebellious people. 00:07:27.385 --> 00:07:31.975 If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you, 00:07:32.725 --> 00:07:36.985 remove your jewelry, and find clothes while I decide what to do with you. 00:07:38.305 --> 00:07:42.895 So from the time they left Mount Sinai, the Israelites wore no 00:07:42.895 --> 00:07:44.905 more jewelry or fine clothes. 00:07:47.770 --> 00:07:51.610 It was Moses practice to take the tent of meeting and set it 00:07:51.610 --> 00:07:53.260 up some distance from the camp. 00:07:54.250 --> 00:07:57.490 Everyone who wanted to make a request of the Lord would go to the 00:07:57.490 --> 00:07:59.800 tent of meeting outside the camp. 00:08:00.820 --> 00:08:04.960 Whenever Moses went out to the tent of meeting, all the people would get up and 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:07.330 stand in the entrances of their own tents. 00:08:08.380 --> 00:08:11.590 They would all watch Moses until he disappeared inside. 00:08:12.460 --> 00:08:16.960 As he went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at its 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:19.690 entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. 00:08:21.250 --> 00:08:25.660 When the people saw the cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, they would stand 00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:27.760 and bow down in front of their own tents. 00:08:28.750 --> 00:08:32.860 In inside the tent of meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:35.500 face as one speaks to a friend. 00:08:36.415 --> 00:08:41.005 Afterward, Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted 00:08:41.005 --> 00:08:46.255 him, Joshua son of none, would remain behind in the tent of meeting. 00:08:48.475 --> 00:08:51.295 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:08:51.475 --> 00:08:52.435 Thank you for joining us.