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Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.

"Each year bring to the house of the Lord your God the first grain that you harvest. "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses.

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was what looked like a pavement of sapphire, as blue as the sky.

God did not harm these leading men of Israel; they saw God, and then they ate and drank together.

I will live among the people of Israel, and I will be their God.

They will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the Lord their God.

When God had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets on which God himself had written the commandments.

When the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain but was staying there a long time, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "We do not know what has happened to this man Moses, who led us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us."

He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf. The people said, "Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt!"

They have already left the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made a bull-calf out of melted gold and have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They are saying that this is their god, who led them out of Egypt.

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God and said, " Lord , why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?

God himself had made the tablets and had engraved the commandments on them.

They said to me, ‘We don't know what has happened to this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us.'

and he said to them, "The Lord God of Israel commands every one of you to put on your sword and go through the camp from this gate to the other and kill your brothers, your friends, and your neighbors."

Moses then returned to the Lord and said, "These people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a god out of gold and worshiped it.

The Lord then passed in front of him and called out, "I, the Lord , am a God who is full of compassion and pity, who is not easily angered and who shows great love and faithfulness.

"Do not worship any other god, because I, the Lord , tolerate no rivals.

"Three times a year all of your men must come to worship me, the Lord , the God of Israel.

the table, its poles, and all its equipment; the bread offered to God;