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(4) Fiery Serpents and Bronze serpent

  (4) Fiery Serpents and Bronze serpent Numbers 21:5-9 『 And the people spake against God and against Moses, saying, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and we loathe this worthless food.' So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many Israelites died. Then the people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD to take the serpents away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent, and put it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.' So Moses made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.'" When the Israelites left Egypt, they disobeyed God, so God sent fiery serpents to kill them. But when Moses...

(3) The Two Stone Tablets Incident

  (3) The Two Stone Tablets Incident ① The Meaning of the Two Stone Tablets Exodus 20:2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." Exodus describes Moses leading the Israelites to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God. Exodus 20:2 refers to the two stone tablets God had initially created. However, when Moses went up Mount Sinai and did not come down for a considerable period of time, the people, led by Aaron, made a golden calf and began to worship idols. Exodus 32:1-4 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered together and said to Aaron, “ Up, make us gods who will go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. ” Aaron said to them, “ Take off the gold rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. ” Then all the people took the gold rings fro...