The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

‘Who is on the Lord’s Side?’ Clay Lane

Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with a constitution for a holy nation, to find it already broken.

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© Berthold-Werner, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Heaven on Earth Clay Lane

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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© noa hen, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Moses and the Twelve Spies Clay Lane

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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© Roman Haselsberger, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Kiss of the Eternal Clay Lane

Moses is allowed to look upon the Promised Land for the first and last time.

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© Adergham2017, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stone Tablets and a Golden Calf

Even as Moses is in the presence of God receiving the Ten Commandments, the people down below are already breaking the first of them.

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From the Kaufmann Haggadah (14th century), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Moses and the Burning Bush Clay Lane

A reluctant Moses is sent back to Egypt on a delicate diplomatic mission.

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