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At Mount Sinai
 
The children of Israel once more packed up and moved camp. They left Rephidim and pitched camped in the wilderness of Sinai, at the base of a mountain. This was not just any mountain it was the Mount of God or Mount Sinai. It had taken the children of Israel 3 whole months to reach Mount Sinai from Egypt. This was near the place where God had spoken to Moses at the burning bush. God has said, "When thou has brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain."

Moses went up on the mountain and talked with God. God told Moses to tell the people to take notice of what He had already done for them in their escape from the Egyptians. He also said that if the people obeyed Him and kept His covenant, then they would be His special people, a very prized treasure.

Moses went back down to the people and gathered all the elders and told them what God has said. They all replied, "All that they Lord hath spoken we will do." So Moses went back up the mountain and told God their reply.

God then instructed Moses to prepare the people because on the third day He would come down in the sight of all the people upon the mountain. The people were to purify or clean themselves, wash their clothes, and build a barrier around the mountain that no one should tough it. If any man or animal should touch the mountain while God was there they would die.

The next three days were very busy days. Mothers and daughters were busy washing clothes. Fathers and sons were busy making the barrier. Everyone was making sure that they had confessed their sins, and made sure that they were totally clean. Everything had to be done just right.

On the third day everyone assembled at the base of the mountain. Everyone was ready and excited at the thought of what might happen that day. The whole mountain looked like it was smoking, because God came down in a fire. The mountain also shook. Then there was a sound like a long blast on a trumpet which kept on getting louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God replied by a voice.

God called Moses up to the top of the mountain, and he went up. God told him to go back down to the people and remind them that they were not to touch the mountain, that the barrier was there for their protection. Should anyone disobey and break through, they would die. Moses went back down and reminded the people.

Then God told them who He was. He said, "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." He then proceeded to say the Ten Commandments.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

All the people saw the thunderings and lightnings, the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. They were very much afraid. They all backed away from the mountain. They asked Moses to speak to them and they would listen, but they did not want to listen to God again in case they died.

This must have made God very sad. He wanted to be close to these people, and He wanted them close to Him. But they were afraid of Him and His holiness. Are we sometimes afraid that we are too bad or naughty to come to God? If we are truly sorry for what we have done, God will never turn us away.

(Exodus 19:1-25, 20:1-19.)

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