First ReadingExodus 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28
From the Book of Exodus
7Now Moses used to take the tentand pitch it outside the camp,far away from the camp,and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.”Everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tent of Meeting,which was outside the camp.8When Moses went out to the Tent,all the people rose up,and stood, everyone at their tent door,and watched Moses,until he had gone into the Tent.9When Moses entered into the Tent,the pillar of cloud descended,stood at the door of the Tent,and the Lord spoke with Moses.10All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent,and all the people rose up and worshiped,everyone at their tent door.11The Lord spoke to Moses face to face,as a man speaks to his friend.He turned again into the camp,but his servant Joshua,the son of Nun, a young man,didn’t depart from the Tent. some verses are not read5The Lord descended in the cloud,and stood with him there,and proclaimed the Lord’s name.6The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord!The Lord, a merciful and gracious God,slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,7keeping loving kindness for thousands,forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin;and who will by no means clear the guilty,visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,and on the children’s children,on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8Moses hurriedand bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight,Lord, please let the Lord go among us,even though this is a stiff-necked people;pardon our iniquity and our sin,and take us for your inheritance.”
verses 10–27 are not read28He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights;he neither ate bread, nor drank water.He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant,the ten commandments.