The Lord God continued to give new instructions to Moses,
reminding him of the ordinances God had commanded Israel to keep in connection with
the Passover.
So God now
says again, “I command you to keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you are to eat unleavened bread to
commemorate the time, the month Abib, the time when I brought you out of Egypt . And remember as I said before, all that opens
up the womb is mine. Every firstling among the cattle and sheep being male is
mine.”
“The
firstling of an ass, you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you cannot redeem it
you must break its neck. And all the first-born of thy sons you shall redeem,
and none shall appear before me empty, that is unredeemed.”
“Six days
shall you work; but on the seventh day you must rest in plowing time and in
harvest time.”
“And thou
shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits, of wheat harvest, and
the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.”
“Three times
in the year shall all your male children appear before me, the Lord God of
Israel; for I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders;
neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before the
Lord three times a year.”
“Thou shall
not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of
the feast of the Passover be left until the morning. The first of the first fruits of the land
thou shall bring into the house of the Lord you God. You must never boil a kid in its mother’s
milk.”
Then the
Lord told Moses, “Write these words; for after the tenor of these words I have
made a covenant with you and with Israel .”
And Moses
was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; during this time, he
neither ate bread nor drank water; and he wrote upon the tables of stone the
words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
We note
that the Ten Commandments were first written on tablets provided and written
with the very hand and fingers of God, but that Moses had smashed them to
pieces. So now God not only made Moses
cut the stones himself, but also do the writing. That is God’s way; He will do what He must
do; but we must do what we can do. More
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