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Then ^(C1)Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

"Why should ^(C1)the Egyptians talk, saying, 'With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people.

"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You ^(C1)swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will ^(C2)multiply your ^(F1)descendants as the stars of the heavens, and ^(C3)all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your ^(F1)descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

^(C1)So the LORD relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

^(C1)Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, ^(C2)tablets which were written on both ^(F1)sides; they were written on one side and the other.

The tablets were God's work, and the writing was God's writing engraved on the tablets.

Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people ^(F1)as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a sound of war in the camp."

But he said, "It is not the sound of the cry of victory, Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat; But I hear the sound of singing."