Whether we keep God’s law or break it, it is the Lord’s
purpose that His law will never go away; it will not depart whether His people
keep it or break it. So that, even though Moses in his anger broke the two
tables of stone which the Lord had given him, the Lord commanded him to hew two
tablets of stone like unto the first two, and He would write the same words on
the latter two as He had the first ones.
God did not
give him a lot of time to dally either; for God told him to come up onto Mount Sinai early in the morning and present himself
there unto Him. In addition, God warned Moses not to allow any other person to
go up upon the mountain with him nor allow any animals to feed upon the
mountain at that time.
And so
Moses in obedience to God’s instructions hewed out to tables of stone like unto
the first two, and rose up early in the morning and took with him unto the
Lord, the two tables of stone,
And the
Lord descended in a cloud and communed with Moses there; and the Lord God
passed before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,
long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and who will by no
means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
unto the third and to the fourth generation.
And while
the Lord spoke, Moses hurriedly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped
and said, “If now Lord I have found grace in thy sight, let my Lord, I pray
thee, go among us; for we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity
and our sin and take us for thine inheritance.”
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