Monday 29 July 2013

15Moses turned, and went down from the mountain,with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand;tablets that were written on both their sides.They were written on one side and on the other.16The tablets were the work of God,and the writing was the writing of God,engraved on the tablets.

17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”

18He said, “It isn’t the voice of thosewho shout for victory.It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome;but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”19As soon as he came near to the camp,he saw the calf and the dancing.Then Moses’ anger grew hot,and he threw the tablets out of his hands,and broke them beneath the mountain.20He took the calf which they had made,and burned it with fire,ground it to powder,and scattered it on the water,and made the children of Israel drink it.

21Moses said to Aaron,“What did these people do to you,that you have brought a great sin on them?”

22Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot.You know the people, that they are set on evil.23For they said to me,‘Make us gods, which shall go before us.As for this Moses,the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,we don’t know what has become of him.’24I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold,let them take it off.’So they gave it to me;and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

· · · verses 25–29 are not read30On the next day, Moses said to the people,“You have sinned a great sin.Now I will go up to the Lord.Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

31Moses returned to the Lord,and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin,and have made themselves gods of gold.32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your bookwhich you have written.”

33The Lord said to Moses,“Whoever has sinned against me,I will blot him out of my book.34Now go, lead the people to the place ofwhich I have spoken to you.Behold, my angel shall go before you.Nevertheless, in the day when I punish,I will punish them for their sin.”

19They made a calf in Horeb,and worshiped a molten image.20Thus they exchanged their gloryfor an image of a bull that eats grass.

21They forgot God, their Savior,who had done great things in Egypt,22wondrous works in the land of Ham,and awesome things by the Red Sea.

23Therefore he said that he would destroy them,had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary,to console them concerning their brother.20Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming,she went and met him,but Mary stayed in the house.21Therefore Martha said to Jesus,“Lord, if you would have been here,my brother wouldn’t have died.22Even now I know that whatever you ask of God,God will give you.”

23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24Martha said to him,“I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.Do you believe this?”

27She said to him, “Yes, Lord.I have come to believe that you are the Christ,God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”