Loggia di Raffaello: 31 - 36
Loggia di Raffaello: 31 - 36
31 - Passing through the Red Sea - 324K ;
small image - 42K.
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord swept the sea
with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land.
When the water was thus divided, the Israelites marched into the midst of
the sea on dry land, with the water like a wall to their right and to their
left.
The Egyptians followed in pursuit; all Pharoah's horses and chariots and
charioteers went after them right into the midst of the sea.
In the night
watch just before dawn the Lord cast through the column of the firey cloud
upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic; and he so
clogged their chariot wheels that they could hardly drive.
With that the
Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel, because the Lord was fighting
for them against the Egyptians.
Then the Lord told Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the
water may flow back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and their
charioteers."
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn
the sea flowed back to its normal depth. The Egyptians were fleeing head
on toward the sea, when the Lord hurled them into its midst. (Ex 14:21-27)
32 - The Water rushing from the Rock - 304K ;
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From the desert of Sin the whole Israelite community journeyed by stages,
as the Lord directed, and encamped at Rephidim.
Here there was no water for the people to drink. They quarreled, therefore,
with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you
quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to a test?"
Here, then, in their
thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "Why did you
ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with
our children and our livestock?"
So Moses cried out to the Lord, "What
shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!"
The
Lord answered Moses, "Go over there in front of the people, along with
some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff
with which you struck the river.
I will be standing there in front of you on
the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for
the people to drink." This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of
Israel. (Ex 17:1-6)
33 - Moses receives the Tablets of Law - 299K ;
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When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the
two tablets of the commandments, the stone tablets inscribed by God's own
finger. (Ex 31:18)
34 - Adoring the Golden Calf - 342K ;
small image - 45K.
So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron, who
accepted their offering, and fashioning this gold with a graving tool,
made a molten calf.
Then they cried out, "This is your God, O Israel,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt." On seeing this, Aaron built
an altar before the calf and proclaimed, "Tomorrow is a feast of the
Lord."
Early the next day the people offered holocausts and brought
peace offerings. Then they sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
revel. (Ex 32:3-6)
35 - The Column of Cloud - 325K ;
small image - 38K.
Having come down in a cloud, the Lord stood with him there and proclaimed
his name, "Lord."
Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, "The
Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in
kindness and fidelity, continuing his kindness for a thousand generations,
and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty
guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and
fourth generation for their fathers' wickedness!"
Moses at once bowed down
to the ground in worship. Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord,
do come along in our company.
This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet
pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own." (Ex 34:5-9)
36 - Moses shows his People the Tablets of Law - 316K ;
small image - 42K.
So Moses stayed there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights,
without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets
the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments
in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant
while he conversed with the Lord.
When Aaron, then, and the other Israelites
saw Moses and noticed how radiant the skin of his face had become, they
were afraid to come near him. Only after Moses called to them did Aaron
and all the rulers of the community come back to him.
Moses then spoke to
them. Later on, all the Israelites came up to him, and he enjoined on them
all that the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai. (Ex 34:28-32)
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