GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN

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18. God chooses a people

The people of Israel wandered through the desert from one stopping-place to another. During the third month they were camped on Mount Sinai. Moses climbed up the mountain to God. God commanded him: Say this to the people of Israel: You have seen that I am mightier than the Egyptians. I have carried you here on eagle’s wings. If you listen to what I say and keep my Covenant, then you will become a people that is closer to me than all the other peoples. But you must belong to me like priests who are ready to serve me. You are a chosen, holy people.

When Moses came down from the mountain and told the people what God had commanded, they all shouted with one voice: We are ready! We want to do all that God had said. We want to live as he wishes us to. On Sinai God gave his people commandments. They are for all people and for all time. All who are faithful to God will see God is faithful to them. God said: I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

1. You shall have no gods except me. You shall not make any images of God. You shall serve none except me.

2. You shall not utter God’s name to misuse it.

3. Remember the seventh day and keep it holy. No one shall work on that day.

4. Honour your father and your mother.

5. You shall not murder.

6. You shall not commit adultery.

7. You shall not steal.

8. You shall not say anything untrue about your fellow man.

9. You shall not covert another man’s wife.

10. You shall not covet another person’s goods.

Moses carved the commandments that God had given his people onto two tablets of stone. He laid these tablets in the sacred Ark of the Covenant. They are the pledge of the Covenant which God has made with his people, Israel.

(Ex 19 – 20)

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