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And Moses said, "When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and your fill of bread in the morning, because the Lord has heard the complaining that you utter against him—what are we? Your complaining is not against us but against the Lord ."

He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord , saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them."

Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.

They themselves shall eat the food by which atonement is made, to ordain and consecrate them, but no one else shall eat of them, because they are holy.

If any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people.

Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf—the one that Aaron made.

(for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord , whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the offerings by fire to the Lord ; for so I am commanded.

Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which remains with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.

All who eat it shall be subject to punishment, because they have profaned what is holy to the Lord ; and any such person shall be cut off from the people.

I myself will set my face against them, and will cut them off from the people, because they have given of their offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her.

But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the Lord ; I sanctify them.