BRAGADAYJAH 258
While the
people were making sacrifices to idols, the Lord was watching them, and He sent
Moses down, having given him two tables of instructions for the people.
But before
Moses could depart, the Lord told him that the people had fallen away; they had
corrupted themselves, and have soon turned away out of the way of His
commandments. “They have a melted calf, and have been worshipping it, and have
been making sacrifices to it, and have proclaimed that the idols they worship
are the gods that brought them up out of the land of Egypt
The Lord
told Moses that He had seen the people, and had seen what they had done, and
know that they are a stiff-necked people; therefore said the Lord to Moses, “leave
me alone so that my wrath may burn against them, and consume them, and make of
you a great nation.”
Upon
hearing the Lord speak of His anger and what He planned to do to Israel, Moses
besought the Lord and pleaded with Him, and asked Him how could His anger burn
and be against the children of Israel, the very people He had brought out of
the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand.
In His
advocacy before the Lord, Moses interpleaded and said to the Lord, that should
he destroy the people, or seriously afflict them, the Egyptians would say that
it was for ill that he led them out of Egypt in order that he may slay them, and
cause them to perish from off the face of the earth; “so Lord,” Moses begged, “turn
thy wrath away from your people and let them live.”
“Remember,
Lord,” Moses continued, Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel your servants to whom you
did swear by your by your own self, and promised to multiply their seed as the
stars of heaven, and give them all this land for an inheritance for ever.”
And such
was God’s love for Moses and His people that, not withstanding that they had grieved
him sorely, the Lord turned his anger away from his people. More
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