MOSES DESTROYS THE TABLES OF THE LAW.—Ex. 32:19.
QUESTIONS.
1. What was given on Mount Sinai? 2. Who spoke the Commandments? 3. To whom did God give them? 4. What were they written on? 5. Who wrote them? 6. Where were they to be kept? 7. What was the chest like? 8. What was the chest called? 9. Where was Moses to put the chest? 10. What was the room called? 11. Who might go near the Holy of Holies? 12. Who was the first High Priest? 13. Who was Aaron? 14. What was Aaron to wear? 15. Why might not the people come near?
THIRD READING.
"Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God."—Deut. 7:9.
WHEN Moses went up into the awful cloud upon Mount Sinai, he stayed there forty days.
But all the Israelites below were impatient. They could not think what had become of Moses; and though they had so lately heard God's own Voice speaking to them, they would not wait as they had been told to do. They cried out that they wanted something instead of Moses, whom they had lost.