HIGH PRIEST WITH SIN OFFERING.
Fourteenth Sunday.
THE GIVING OF THE LAW.
FIRST READING.
"Thou heardest His words out of the midst of the fire."—Deut. 4:36.
WHEN the children of Israel had come out of Egypt, God had told Moses to lead them to the foot of Mount Sinai. This was a high steep rocky mountain in the wilderness. And God told Moses to set bounds round the mountain, so that nobody should come and touch it; and the people were to pray, and wait round it for the holy and awful thing that was to happen.