Exodus 34
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And the LORD said to Moses, a "Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and b I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
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"So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there c on the top of the mountain.
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"And no man shall d come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."
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So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
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Now the LORD descended in the e cloud and stood with him there, and f proclaimed the name of the LORD.
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And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD g God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in h goodness and i truth,
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j "keeping mercy for thousands, k forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, l by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
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So Moses made haste and m bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
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Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, n let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a o stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as p Your inheritance."
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And He said: "Behold, q I make a covenant. Before all your people I will r do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is s an awesome thing that I will do with you.
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t "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, u I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
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v "Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.
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"But you shall w destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and x cut down their wooden images
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"(for you shall worship y no other god, for the LORD, whose z name is Jealous, is a a jealous God),
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"lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they b play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them c invites you and you d eat of his sacrifice,
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"and you take of e his daughters for your sons, and his daughters f play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
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g "You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.
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"The Feast of h Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the i month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
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j "All that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep.
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"But k the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me l empty-handed.
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m "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
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"And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
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n "Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.
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"For I will o cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
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"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, p nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
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q "The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write r these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
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s So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And t He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
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Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the u two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that v the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.
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So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
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Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.
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Afterward all the children of Israel came near, w and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
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And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put x a veil on his face.
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But y whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.
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And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.
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Exodus 24:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on ...
Exodus 31:18
And when He had made an end of speaking with hi...
Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned and went down from the mountai...
Exodus 32:16
Now the tablets were the work of God, and the w...
Exodus 32:19
So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, th...
Deuteronomy 4:13
So He declared to you His covenant which He com...
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Deuteronomy 10:2
'And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.'
Deuteronomy 10:4
And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
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Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
Exodus 19:20
Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
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Exodus 19:12
You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 19:13
'Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."
Exodus 24:9 - 11
Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.
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Exodus 19:9
And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
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Exodus 33:19
Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
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Numbers 14:18
'The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.'
Deuteronomy 4:31
(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to obey, And they were not mindful of Your wonders That You did among them. But they hardened their necks, And in their rebellion They appointed a leader To return to their bondage. But You are God, Ready to pardon, Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, Abundant in kindness, And did not forsake them.
Joel 2:13
So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
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Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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Psalms 108:4
For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds.
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Exodus 20:6
But showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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Psalms 103:3
Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.
Psalms 103:4
Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Joshua 24:19
But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Job 10:14
If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
Micah 6:11
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
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Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Exodus 33:12 - 16
Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people.' But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.
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Exodus 33:3
" Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."
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Psalms 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Psalms 94:14
For the LORD will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
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Exodus 34:27
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Exodus 34:28
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:2
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
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Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.
Psalms 77:14
You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
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Psalms 145:6
Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness.
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Deuteronomy 6:25
'Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'
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Exodus 23:20 - 33
Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
Exodus 33:2
And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
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Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus 23:33
"They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
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Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
Deuteronomy 12:3
And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a...
Judges 6:25
Now it came to pass the same night that the LOR...
Judges 6:26
"and build an altar to the LORD your God on top...
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the sacred...
2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he w...
2 Chronicles 34:4
They broke down the altars of the Baals in his ...
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Exodus 20:3 - 5
You shall have no other gods before Me.
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Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
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Judges 2:17
Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.
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Numbers 25:1
Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
Numbers 25:2
They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Deuteronomy 32:37
He will say: 'Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?
Deuteronomy 32:38
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:7
However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
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Genesis 28:1
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and ch...
Deuteronomy 7:3
Nor shall you make marriages with them. You sha...
Joshua 23:12
Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to...
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the LORD your God will no...
1 Kings 11:2
From the nations of whom the LORD had said to t...
Ezra 9:2
"For they have taken some of their daughters as...
Nehemiah 13:25
So I contended with them and cursed them, struc...
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Numbers 25:1
Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
Numbers 25:2
They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
1 Kings 11:4
For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 20:23
You shall not make anything to be with Me - gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.
Exodus 32:8
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!'"
Leviticus 19:4
Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 5:8
You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:16
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat - that only may be prepared by you.
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Exodus 12:2
This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus 13:4
On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.
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Exodus 13:2
"Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine."
Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
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Exodus 13:13
But every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.
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Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).
Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
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Exodus 20:9
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
Exodus 23:12
Six days you shall do your work, and on the sev...
Exodus 31:15
Work shall be done for six days, but the sevent...
Exodus 35:2
Work shall be done for six days, but the sevent...
Leviticus 23:3
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh da...
Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
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Exodus 23:14 - 17
Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:
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Exodus 33:2
And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
1 Kings 4:21
So Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
2 Chronicles 36:14 - 16
Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the LORD which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Psalms 78:55
He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
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Exodus 12:10
You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
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Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 26:2
That you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
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Exodus 17:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:9
So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
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Exodus 24:18
So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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Exodus 34:1
And the LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
Exodus 34:4
So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:31
(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Deuteronomy 10:2
'And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.'
Deuteronomy 10:4
And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
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Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
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Matthew 17:2
And He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away.
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Exodus 24:3
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has said we will do.
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2 Corinthians 3:13
Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
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2 Corinthians 3:13 - 16
Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
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