August, 2023 — Quovadisworld

THE TABLE FOR SHOWBREAD AND THE LAMPSTAND

The table of showbread and the lampstand. See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.

THE ARK AND THE MERCY SEAT

You shall put the Mercy Seat on the top of the Ark, and in the Ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.

MOSES SHOWN GOD’S PLAN FOR THE TABERNACLE

Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

THE COVENANT MADE AND SEALED BY BLOOD

So Moses took the blood [which had been placed in the large basins] and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.

CONQUEST OF CANAAN PROMISED

When My Angel goes before you and brings you to [the land of] the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, I will reject them and completely destroy them.

LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP

ou shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice; nor shall you favor or be partial to a poor man in his dispute [simply because he is poor].

LAWS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE

You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
and My wrath shall be kindled and burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

LAWS ABOUT RESTITUTION

If it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he must make restitution of ox for ox, and the dead [animal] shall be his

LAWS ABOUT SLAVES

“If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.

LAWS ON IDOLS AND ALTARS

The People Fear-Idols and Altars. Now all the people witnessed the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the smoking mountain; and as they looked, the people were afraid, and they trembled [and moved backward] and stood at a [safe] distance.