Exodus 34: 29-30

 

I will print out two verses from Exodus which describes how Moses visited the Lord on Mount Sinai and came down with The Ten Commandments written on two tablets and his face was radiant and scary to the Hebrews for Moses had for 40 days been conversing with and in the presence of Yahweh.

 

These verses are remarkable in two ways. First, Moses was instructed by God to write down a moral code for the masses of Israel to live by. That a major Divinity would provide people with a moral code is a remarkable act, for it indicates that people are born sinners, and require ethical and spiritual reformation to be allowed to go to heaven.

 

Anyone seeking to dismiss the importance of The Ten Commandments is a fool.

 

Second, it is astounding that Moses spent time with God, so that his face was radiant as a consequence; that this godly aura accompanied a man of God is impressive, and that it was scary and somehow offensive to regular people does indicate that people travel not with God, nor converse with God easily or naturally.

 

Here are the two verses from The New American Bible: “As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the Lord. When, Aaron then, and the other Israelites saw Moses and noticed how radiant the skin of his face had become, they were afraid to come near him.”

 

Here are these same two verses from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone when talked with him.

 

And when Moses and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him..”