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- MOSES
brought the people out from the camp to the foot of Mount Sinai. In the
morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning. All the mountain
shook and gave out smoke like a furnace. A trumpet sounded loudly. God
began to speak from the cloud.
- Then God called Moses
up to the top of Mount Sinai and gave him Commandments written on tablets
of stone. God spoke and said:
- "I, the Lord, am your
God. You shall not have other gods besides Me. "You shall not, take
the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. "Remember to keep holy the
sabbath day.
- "Honor your father and
your mother.
- "You shall not kill.
- "You shall not commit
adultery.
- "You shall not steal.
- "You shall not bear
false witness against your neighbor
- "You shall not covet
your neighbor's wife.
- "You shall not covet
anything that belongs to your neighbor."
- Moses was with the Lord
forty days and forty nights. The people became tired waiting for him. They
went to Aaron and said, "Make us gods to worship."
- Then Aaron said "Bring
your gold ornaments to me." He melted the gold, and from the metal he
shaped an image of a calf.
- Moses prayed God to
spare the people. When he came down the mountainside, and saw the golden
calf, and the people singing and dancing around it, he was angry. He threw
down the tablets of stone and broke them at the foot of the mountain. The
golden calf he burned and ground into powder.
- Again Moses went up
Mount Sinai, to pray for the people. God told him to make two tablets of
stone like the ones he had broken. Moses wrote the Ten Commandments on
them.
- The commandments exist to
make our life in this earth better. Can you imagine how it should be
without them.
- Love, Tia Célia.
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