Chapter 32

The Second Stone Tablets


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And it came to pass that YHVHa said unto Moses: Hew thee two other tables of sapphire like unto the firstb, and I will write upon them also the words of the Torahc, according as they were written at the first on the tables which thou brakest:

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But they shall not receive according to the first, for I will take away my power from out of their midst;

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Therefore, my holy order and the ordinancesa thereof shall not go before them; for my Presenceb shall not go up in their midst, lest I destroy them.

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And this is the plague I shall send upon the people because they worshiped the calf which Aaron made:

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I will give unto them the Torah as at the first, but they shall not understand it, but shall read it to be after the Law of Carnal Commandmentsa,

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And I have sworn in my wrath that they shall not enter into my Presence, into my rest, in the days of their pilgrimage;

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But should they turn away from Egypta and walk in teshuvahb to me, then shall they enter Edenc, and there find my rest, and enter into my Presence:

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And in this, their pilgrimage, shall they be my children, even Israel;

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Therefore, do as I have asked of thee; and be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto the Mount of Ha’Elohim, thou and thy wife, Zipporah, and present thyself there to me in the top of the Mount.

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And no one else shall come up with thee; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the Mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that Mount; but thy wife, Zipporah, she shall thou bringa with thee.

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¶ And it came to pass that Moses hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and he rose up early in the morning, and went up unto the Mount with his wife, Zipporah, even as YHVH had commandeda him, and they took with them the two tables of sapphire.

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And YHVH descended in the cloud, and stood with them there, and that angel of YHVHa proclaimed the name of YHVH.

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And the angel of YHVH passed by before thema and proclaimedb: YHVH, YHVH Elc, is merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

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Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and rebelliona, and sin; acquitting not the transgressors,

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But visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children unto the third and to the fourth generation.

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And Moses and Zipporah made haste, and bowed their heads towarda the earth, and worshiped.