BRAGADAYJAH 538

BRAGADAYJAH 538

“Understand,” continued Moses, “that the Lord had a great delight in your fathers; and He loved them; and He chose their seed after them, you their children above all other people. Sanctify, therefore, the foreskins of your heart and be you no more a stiff-necked people.  For the Lord your God is a God of gods, and Lord of lords; a great God, a mighty and awesome God, who does not regard persons, nor take a reward. He executes justice for the fatherless and widows, and loves the stranger and gives him food and clothing.”

Love you, therefore, the stranger seeing you were once strangers in the land of Egypt.”   “You shall fear the Lord your God, cleave to Him and swear by Him  He is your praise and your God who has done for you great and awe inspiring things; which you have seen with your own eyes.  Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.”

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BRAGADAYJAH 537

BRADADAYJAH 537

At that time the Lord set aside the Tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto Him, and to bless his name forever. Accordingly Levi had no part or portion with his brethren for the Lord was his appointed inheritance.

And said, Moses, “I stayed in the mount forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time; and I prayed unto the Lord and he heard me again. And did not destroy you. And the Lord told me to arise and take my journey and lead the people that they may go in and possess the land which He had sworn to give to your forefathers. So now I ask you, what does the Lord require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul?” To keep the commandments and the statutes of the Lord which I command you this day for your own good.  For behold, to the Lord your God belong the heaven of heavens and the earth, and all that therein is. More

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BRAGADAYJAH 536

BRAGADAYJAH 536

God Extended His Mercy by Replacing the Broken Tablets

“After I returned and found you in the sin of the molten calf which you caused Aaron to make, and which you worshipped contrary to the commandment of the Lord. I broke the tablets; but the Lord was gracious and merciful towards you and his anger towards you was abated.  And the Lord said to me, hew two tables of stone like the first and come up into the mountain and make an ark of wood.  And I will write on the tablets the words like the first ones which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. And I made an ark of acacia wood and hewed the two tables of stone and went up on the mountain unto the Lord.  And the Lord wrote on the two tables like unto the first the Ten Commandments which the Lord spoke unto you out of the mountain in the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me. And I came and came down from the mountain after the Lord had given them to me.”

And when I came down from the mountain, I put the tablets in the ark as the Lord commanded me and there they are.”

After that the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth Beneja-akam to Moserah and there Aaron died. And there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.  Then they journeyed to Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah a land of rivers of water.  More

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BRAGADAYJAH 535

BRAGADAYJAH 535

‘Not only that,” Moses continued, “at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.  Also when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you go up and possess the land which He have given you, you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice.  And you have been rebellious against the Lord from the first day I met you.” “Accordingly I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights as I did at the first because the Lord said He would destroy you. I prayed unto the Lord and said, O Lord God destroy not your people and your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, when you brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand.  Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness nor their sin, lest the land from which you brought us out say, because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.” “Yet they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm.

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BRAGADAYJAH 534

BRAGADAYJAH 534

The Sad recollection Continued

“In addition,” said Moses, “the Lord spoke unto me saying, I have seen this people and they are a stiff-necked people.  Leave me alone that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from heaven; and I will make me a nation mightier and greater than they.”

“So,” said Moses, “I turned and came down from the Mount and the mount burned with fire, and the two tables of stone were in my two hands.  And I looked and saw you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a melted calf; you had turned aside quickly out of the way the Lord had commanded you. And I took the two tables and cast them out of my hands before your eyes.  And I fell down before the Lord as I did at first.  Forty days and forty nights I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger.  For I was afraid of the anger and the hot displeasure of the Lord for which cause the Lord was angry with you to destroy you; but the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.  And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to destroy him and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. And I took your sin, the calf which you had made and burned it with fire and stamped upon it and ground it very small even as small as dust; and I cast the dust into the book that flowed down from the mount.  More

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BRAGADAYJAH 533

BRAGADAYJAH 533

Moses continues to Reflect and Admonish

“Remember and never forget,” Moses told them, “how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness, from the day you departed out of Egypt until you arrived unto this place you have been rebellious against the Lord. And while in Horeb, you provoked the Lord to wrath to the point He became angry with you enough to destroy you.  That was after I left you to go up unto the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tables of stone which contained the words of the covenant which the Lord made with you. During the forty days and forty nights I was with the Lord on the mountain, I neither ate bread nor drank water that whole time.  And the Lord delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words the Lord had spoken unto you on the mount in the midst of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of the forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone containing the words of the covenant.”

“And the Lord said to me go quickly from here for the people which you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are soon turned aside out of the way from which I have commanded them, and have made themselves a melted image,  More.

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