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powder into the water which flowed from the rock, and made the children of Israel drink of the water.

Exodus xxxii.

Moses' anger waxed hot, means that Moses' anger grew hot.

Chapter LVII.

GOD'S PEOPLE PARDONED AT MOSES' PRAYER.

THE children of Israel had broken their covenant with God. They had made an image, and worshipped it, which God had commanded them not to do. And Moses feared that God would cast them off, that He would not go with them, and would not let them be His people. So on the morrow Moses said unto the people, “Ye have sinned a great sin: now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin."

Then Moses returned unto the Lord, and he prayed and said, "Oh, this people have sinned 3

a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if Thou wilt, forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written."

Moses was willing that the Lord should punish him, and blot his name out from among the number of His chosen people, if He would spare the children of Israel, and forgive their sin.

But God would not let Moses suffer punishment instead of the children of Israel. God said, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book."

Then the Lord sent a plague upon the people to punish them for their sin. And the Lord said, that He would not go with the children of Israel any longer, because they were a wicked people, and had broken the covenant which He had made with them. And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on his ornaments.

Then Moses took a tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation.

And when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses. And as Moses went into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle. And the Lord talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy pillar standing at the tabernacle door, and they rose up and worshipped.

Then Moses prayed God that He would still go with them, and lead them in the way, and let the children of Israel be still His people.

And the Lord heard the prayer of Moses, and He forgave the sin of Aaron and of the children of Israel; and God said, "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."

Then the Lord said unto Moses, "Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest." Then Moses hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up unto Mount Sinai, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. And the Lord made again His covenant with His people.

Moses was in the mount with God forty days and forty nights. For forty days and forty nights he did neither eat bread nor drink water.

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the Lord wrote again upon the tables of stone the words of the ten commandments.

Exodus xxxii. to xxxiv.

The plague was a grievous sickness which made men die.
Tidings, are news. Evil tidings, are bad news.

A tabernacle is a tent which can be taken down and moved. The holy house of God was called a tabernacle, because it was so made that it could be taken down and moved, when the children of Israel journeyed. To pitch a tent or tabernacle, is to set it up.

Chapter LEX.

THE BUILDING OF GOD'S TABERNACLE, AND THE ANOINTING OF HIS PRIESTS.

AFTER Moses had come down from the mount, he told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him. Then he said, that those who had willing hearts to offer of the best of all

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they had to God for His tabernacle or holy house, might bring their offerings to him.

Then every one of the children of Israel who had a willing heart to give unto the Lord, brought his offering to Moses. They brought gold, silver, and brass, and precious wood, and blue and purple and scarlet cloth, and fine linen, for the tabernacle; and spices for the incense. And so many gladly brought unto the Lord the best of all that they had, that Moses had more than enough for the tabernacle, and for the altars, and for all that God had commanded him to make.

Then Moses chose men from among the children of Israel, and he taught them to make the sanctuary or tabernacle of God, according to the pattern which he had seen in the mount.

And when all the things which God had commanded were made, Moses set up the tabernacle, and he covered it with the curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of skins. Then he put the ark of the covenant with the golden mercy seat within the tabernacle; and he set up the vail before the ark, to divide the inner part of the tabernacle,

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