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the destruction of the law tablets
Dimensions: 297mmx 420mm
Gallery Serendipity Copyright Eric Morris 2006 |
TEXTS
When he had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai,
he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of
stone inscribed by the finger of God.
32: When the people saw that Moses was a long time before
coming down the mountain, they gathered round Aaron
and said to him, 'Get to work, make us a god to go at
our head; for that Moses, the man who brought us here from
Egypt - we do not know what has become of him.
Aaron replied, Strip off the gold rings in the ears of
your wives and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me .'
The people stripped off the gold rings from their ears
and brought them to Aaron. he received what they gave him,
melted it down in a mould and with it made the statue
of a calf.
Israel, the people shouted, ' here is your God who brought
you here from Egypt! . observing this Aaron built an altar
before the statue and made this proclamation ' tomorrow
will be a feast in Yahweh honour.Earlly next morning they
sacrificed burnt offerings and brought communion sacrifices.
the people then sat ddown to eat and drink, and
afterwards got up to revel.
Yahweh then said to Moses.' Go down at once, for your
peoople whom you brought here from Egyupt have become
corrupt. They have quickly left the way which I ordered
them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf,
worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting,
Israel here is your God who brought you here from Egypt!
Yaheweh then said to Moses,' I know these people;
I know how obstinate they are! So leave me now, so that my
anger can blaze at them and I can put an end to them!
I shall make a great nation out of you instead.'
v15 Moses tlurned and came down the mountain with the
two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed
on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back.
The tablets were the work of God and the writing on them was
God's writing, engraved on the tablets.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, There is the sound of battle in the camp!.
But he replied:
No song of victory is this sound,
no lament for defeat this sound;
but answering choruses I hear!
19 And there, as he approached the camp, he saw the calf
and groups dancing. Moses blazed with anger. he threw
down the tablets has holding, shattering them at the
foot of the mountain. He seized the calf they had made and
burned it, grinding it into powder which he scattered
on the water and made the israelites drink it.
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Exodus Ch.32 v 1 .....19
Constructed .19th NOV 2006
