Moses speaks to his fellow Israelites:
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.-Deuteronomy 4:7-19***Before the Lord God sent Moses and Moses' brother Aaron to speak to the enslaved Israelite elders and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, Moses spoke to the Lord God and described misgivings and inabilities. The Lord God told Moses that Moses was to speak the words of the Lord God to Aaron, and Aaron was to repeat the words to the Israelites and to Pharaoh. Moses and Aaron went to the Israelite elders, and Aaron spoke the words and Moses did the signs that the Lord God commanded. The Israelites believed, bowed and worshiped. Pharaoh did not believe and did not let the Israelites go into the desert wilderness and offer sacrifices and hold a feast to the Lord God. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and told them to get the Israelites and their animals and go serve the Lord God. Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Marah. Months thereafter, in the desert wilderness of Sinai, Moses, in the region of Mount Sinai (Horeb), the Lord God spoke to Moses. The Lord God told Moses that he would come in a thick cloud and speak to Moses so that the Israelites would hear him speaking to Moses and the Lord God commanded Moses to consecrate the Israelites. On the third day, after the Israelites were consecrated and their clothes were washed according to the commands of the Lord God, there was thunder, lightning, a thick cloud, and the sound of a trumpet. Mount Sinai was smoky, and the Lord God came down upon Mount Sinai in fire. The smoke continued to rise, the mountain shook, the steady sound of the trumpet grew louder, and the Lord God called Moses to the top of Mount Sinai. The Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites. During the 40th year of their journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried upon Mount Hor. Shortly thereafter, Moses began speaking his last messages to the Israelites. The Lord God commanded Moses to write down the words to a song and teach the song to the Israelites. Thus, Moses and Joshua, his successor, taught the song to the Israelites, and Moses spoke to the Israelites and blessed them. When 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Over 1,400 years after Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 1:1-5:33, 9:1-29, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.-Exodus 31:18