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The Holy Bible Exodus 34.5-18 by Robert Alter Lyrics

Genre: misc | Year: 2019

And the Lord cam down in the cloud and stationed Himself with him there, and He invoked the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and He called out: "The Lord, the Lord! A compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in kindness and good faith, keeping kindness for the thousandth generation, bearing crime, trespass, and offense, yet He does not wholly acquit, reckoning the crime of fathers with sons and sons of sons, to the third generation and the fourth." And Moses hastened and prostrated himself on the ground and bowed down. And he said, "If, pray, I have found favor in Your eyes, my Master, may my Master,pray, go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked people, and you shall forgive our crime and our offense, and claim us as Yours." And He said, "Look, I am about to seal a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders that have not been created in all the earth and in all the nations, and all the people in whose midst you are shall see the Lord's doing, for fearsome is that which I do with you. Watch you that which I charge you today. Look, I am about to drive out before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, Watch yourself, lest you seal a covenant with the inhabitant of the land against which you come, lest he become a snare in your midst. For their altars you shall shatter and their pillars you shall smash and their cultic poles you shall cut down. For you shall not bow to another god, for the Lord, His name is Jealous, a jealous God He is. Lest you seal a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and he calls you, and you eat of his sacrifice, and you take from his daughters for your sons, and his daughters whore after their gods, and make your sons whore after their gods. No molten gods shall you make for yourselves.