Exodus 34:1-35:9 1 The
Lord said to Moses, “Cut out
two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write
on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.
2 Be prepared
in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself
for me there on the top of the mountain.
3 No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”
4 So Moses
cut out two tablets of stone like the first;
early in the morning he went up
to Mount Sinai, just as the
Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5 The
Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the
Lord by name.
6 The
Lord passed by before him and proclaimed:
“The
Lord, the
Lord,
the compassionate and gracious
God, slow to anger,
and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,
7 keeping loyal love for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression
of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
8 Moses quickly bowed
to the ground and worshiped
9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord
go among us, for we
are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10 He said, “See, I am going to make
a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done
in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the
Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
11 “Obey
what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out
before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Be careful not to make
a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare
among you.
13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
14 For you must not worship
any other god,
for the
Lord, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 Be careful
not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when
they prostitute themselves
to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you,
you will eat from his sacrifice;
16 and you then take
his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
17 You must not make yourselves molten gods.
18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days
you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this
at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 “Every firstborn of the womb
belongs to me, even every firstborn
of your cattle that is a male,
whether ox or sheep.
20 Now the firstling
of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck.
You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. “No one will appear before me empty-handed.
21 “On six days
you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest;
even at the time of plowing and of harvest
you are to rest.
22 “You must observe
the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end
of the year.
23 At three times
in the year all your men
must appear before the Lord
God,
the God of Israel.
24 For I will drive out
the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet
your land when you go up
to appear before the
Lord your God three times
in the year.
25 “You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.
26 “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the
Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 The
Lord said to Moses, “Write down
these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28 So he was there with the
Lord forty days and forty nights;
he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 Now when Moses came down
from Mount Sinai with
the two tablets of the testimony in his hand
– when he came down
from the mountain, Moses
did not know that the skin of his face shone
while he talked with him.
30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone;
and they were afraid to approach him.
31 But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32 After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the
Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses finished
speaking
with them, he would
put a veil on his face.
34 But when Moses went in
before the
Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out.
Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.
35 When the Israelites would see
the face of Moses, that
the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the
Lord.
1 Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that the
Lord has commanded you to do.
2 In six days
work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day
for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the
Lord.
Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.
3 You must not kindle a fire
in any of your homes
on the Sabbath day.”
4 Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites, “This is the word that the
Lord has commanded:
5 ‘Take
an offering for the
Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart
bring
an offering to the
Lord:
gold, silver, bronze,
6 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat’s hair,
7 ram skins dyed red, fine leather,
acacia wood,
8 olive oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
9 onyx stones, and other gems
for mounting
on the ephod and the breastpiece.
Context (NET) Matthew 27:15-31 15 During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd,
whomever they wanted.
16 At that time they had in custody a notorious prisoner named Jesus
Barabbas.
17 So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus
Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”
18 (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)
19 As
he was sitting on the judgment seat,
his wife sent a message
to him:
“Have nothing to do with that innocent man;
I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream
about him today.”
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
21 The
governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”
22 Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?”
They all said, “Crucify him!”
23 He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”
24 When
Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”
25 In
reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
26 Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged,
he handed him over
to be crucified.
27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence
and gathered the whole cohort
around him.
28 They
stripped him and put a scarlet robe
around him,
29 and after braiding
a crown of thorns,
they put it on his head. They
put a staff
in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:
“Hail, king of the Jews!”
30 They
spat on him and took the staff
and struck him repeatedly
on the head.
31 When
they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then
they led him away to crucify him.
Context (NET) Psalm 33:12-22 12 How blessed
is the nation whose God is the
Lord, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
13 The
Lord watches
from heaven; he sees all people.
14 From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.
15 He is the one who forms every human heart,
and takes note of all their actions.
16 No king is delivered by his vast army; a warrior is not saved by his great might.
17 A horse disappoints those who trust in it for victory;
despite its great strength, it cannot deliver.
18 Look, the
Lord takes notice of his loyal followers,
those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness
19 by saving their lives from death
and sustaining them during times of famine.
20 We
wait for the
Lord; he is our deliverer
and shield.
21 For our hearts rejoice in him, for we trust in his holy name.
22 May we experience your faithfulness, O
Lord,
for
we wait for you.
Context (NET) Proverbs 9:1-6 1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out its seven pillars.
2 She has prepared her meat,
she has mixed her wine; she also has arranged her table.
3 She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places
of the city.
4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” she says
to those
who lack understanding.
5 “Come, eat
some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.
6 Abandon your foolish ways
so that you may live,
and proceed
in the way of understanding.”
Context (NET)
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