Exodus 24:12

 

From The New American Bible, I will quote verse Exodus 24:12, which recites how Moses is invited by Yahweh to come up to Him on the mountain, and God will give Moses the Ten Commandments. This seems remarkable to me: it is a morally perfect great deity that wants a covenant between his children and Himself, and being a good and just deity, he wants their faithfulness, steadfastness, obedience and worship, but none of that matters if they are not ethically good too, thus the importance of Yahweh handing to Moses the stone tablets with the moral laws—the Ten Commandments—to live in accordance with.

 

Yahweh is instructing his people that a person is a delight to God if he is spiritually and morally good at the same time, and that one cannot be one without the other. He who professes to be holy but is a hypocrite, or, worse and openly, brazen dedicated sinner consciously violating God’s commandments for worldly gain, that person offends and angers God and will not go unpunished.

 

Here is the verse from The New American Bible: “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Come up to me on the mountain, and, while you are there, I will give you the stone tablets on which I have written the commandments intended for their instruction.’ “

 

Here is this same verse from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written, and thou mayest teach them.”