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The Book of Exodus Chapters 33 & 34. ESV Version.

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#17 Exodus chapters 33  & 34.


Chapter 33

Closing Time
  • God tells Moses to peace and that the land of Canaan will be his for the taking.
  • He also tells Moses that he, God, will no longer be personally accompanying the people. He's kind of sick of them: "Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

    • Chapter 34

    Moses Becomes Stanley Kubrick and Everyone Goes Home Semi-Happy
    • God tells Moses to recut some stones for new tablets and meet him on the mountain alone. Spooky much?
    • God proclaims his power with this nifty poem in 34:6-8:
    • "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,/ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."
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