Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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After more than a month in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula, Moses finds that the Israelites are growing rebellious.
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Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with a constitution for a holy nation, to find it already broken.
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Since the Israelites could not bear seeing Moses go to the mountain, the God upon the mountain came down to the Israelites.
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Spies are sent out to scout the Promised Land, but their report shows that Israel is not yet ready to inherit it.
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Moses is allowed to look upon the Promised Land for the first and last time.
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Even as Moses is in the presence of God receiving the Ten Commandments, the people down below are already breaking the first of them.