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Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 100 and 17
One day Moses said to the Lord, you have
been telling me take these people up
to the Promised Land, but you haven't
told me whom you will send with me.
You have told me I know you by
name and I look favorably on you.
If it is true that you look favorably
on me, let me know your ways so
I may understand you more fully
and continue to enjoy your favor.
And remember that this nation
is your very own people.
The Lord replied, I will personally go
with you, Moses and I will give you rest.
Everything will be fine for you.
Then Moses said.
If you don't personally go with
us, don't make us leave this place.
How will anyone know that
you look favorably on me,
on me, and on your people.
If you don't go with us, for your
presence among us sets your people
in me, apart from all other people on
the earth, the Lord replied to Moses.
I will indeed do what you have asked for.
I look favorably on you
and I know you by name.
Moses responded, then show
me your glorious presence.
The Lord replied, I will make all my
goodness pass before you and I will call
out my name Yahweh before you, for I
will show mercy to anyone I choose and I
will show compassion to anyone I choose.
But you may not look directly
at my face for no one may see
me and live the Lord continued.
Look, stand near me on this rock
as my glorious presence passes by.
I will hide you in the crevice
of the rock and cover you with
my hand until I have passed by.
Then I will remove my hand and
let you see me from behind,
but my face will not be seen.
Then the Lord told Moses.
Chisel out two stone
tablets like the first ones.
I will write on them the same words
that were on the tablets you smashed.
Be ready in the morning to climb
up Mount Sinai and present yourself
to me on the top of the mountain.
No one else may come with you.
In fact, no one is to appear
anywhere on the mountain.
Do not even let the flocks or
herds graze near the mountain.
So Moses chiseled out two tablets of
stone, like the first ones early in the
morning, he climbed Mount Sinai as the
Lord had commanded him and he carried
the two stone tablets in his hands.
Then the Lord came down in a cloud
and stood there with him and he
called out his own name, Yahweh.
The Lord passed in front of Moses,
calling out Yahweh, the Lord,
the God of compassion and mercy.
I am slow to anger and filled with
unfailing love and faithfulness.
I lavish, unfailing love
to a thousand generations.
I forgive iniquity, rebellion and
sin, but I do not excuse the guilty.
I lay the sins of the parents upon
their children and grandchildren.
The entire family is affected,
even children in the third
and fourth generations.
Moses immediately threw himself
to the ground and worshiped, and
he said, oh Lord, if it is true
that I have found favor with
you, then please travel with us.
Yes, this is a stubborn and
rebellious people, but please
forgive our iniquity and our sins.
Claim us as your own special possession.
The Lord replied.
Listen, I am making a covenant with
you in the presence of all your
people, I will perform miracles that
have never been performed anywhere
in all the earth or in any nation.
And all the people around you
will see the power of the Lord.
The awesome power I will display for you.
But listen carefully to
everything I command you today.
Then I will go ahead of you and drive
out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites,
parasites, hives, and Jebusites.
Be very careful never to make a
treaty with the people who live
in the land where you are going.
If you do, you will follow
their evil ways and be trapped.
Instead, you must break down their
pagan altars, smash their sacred
pillars, and cut down their Asher poles.
You must worship no other gods.
For the Lord whose very name is
jealous, is a God who is jealous
about his relationship with you.
You must not make a treaty of any kind.
With the people living in the
land, they lust after their gods
or offering sacrifices to them.
They will invite you to join
them in their sacrificial meals
and you will go with them.
Then you will accept their daughters
who sacrifice to other gods as wives
for your sons, and they will seduce your
sons to commit adultery against me By
worshiping other gods, you must not make
any gods of molten metal for yourselves.
You must celebrate the
festival of unleavened bread.
For seven days, the bread you
eat must be made without yeast.
Just as I commanded you celebrate this
festival annually at the appointed
time in early spring in the month
of ABI for that is the anniversary
of your departure from Egypt.
The firstborn of every animal belongs
to me, including the firstborn
males from your herds of cattle
and your flocks of sheep and goats.
A firstborn donkey may be bought back
from the Lord by presenting a lamb or
young goat in its place, but if you
do not buy it back, you must break
its neck, however you must buy back.
Every firstborn son, no one may
appear before me without an offering.
You have six days each week for your
ordinary work, but on the seventh
day, you must stop working even during
the seasons of plowing and harvest.
You must celebrate the festival of harvest
with the first crop of the wheat harvest
and celebrate the festival of the final
harvest at the end of the harvest season.
Three times each year.
Every man in Israel must appear before the
sovereign, the Lord, the God of Israel.
I will drive out the other nations ahead
of you and expand your territory so no
one will covet and conquer your land.
While you appear before the Lord
your God three times each year.
You must not offer the blood of my
sacrificial offerings together with
any baked goods containing yeast.
And none of the meat of the
Passover sacrifice may be kept
over until the next morning.
As you harvest your crops, bring the
very best of the first harvest to the
house of the Lord your God, you must not
cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Then the Lord said to Moses, write
down all these instructions for they
represent the terms of the covenant
I am making with you and with Israel.
Moses remained there on the
mountain with the Lord 40 days
and 40 nights and all that time he
ate no bread and drank no water.
And the Lord wrote the terms
of the covenant, the 10
commandments on the stone tablets.
When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying
the two stone tablets, inscribed with
the terms of the covenant, he wasn't
aware that his face had become radiant
because he had spoken to the Lord.
So when Aaron and the people of Israel
saw the radiance of Moses' face,
they were afraid to come near him.
But Moses called out to them and asked
Aaron and all the leaders of the community
to come over and he talked with them.
Then all the people of Israel
approached him, and Moses gave
them all the instructions the
Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
When Moses finished speaking with
them, he covered his face with a veil,
but whenever he went into the tent of
meeting to speak with the Lord, he would
remove the veil until he came out again.
Then he would give the people whatever
instructions the Lord had given
him, and the people of Israel would
see the radiant glow of his face.
So he would put the veil over his face
until he returned to speak with the Lord.
The This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.