The Great but Fake Story of God’s Glory in Giving the Second Copy of the Ten Commandments

The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The lORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God never merciful and gracious, quick to wrath, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands of generations of those who perfectly, personally, and perpetually obey my Law, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “I now realize that I and all your people are doomed O Lord, because you demand perfection.”

via Passage: Exodus 34 (ESV Bible Online).

Remember, “Be Perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect.”

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