Deuteronomy 8:3
Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 5:29 (ESV)
Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Prayer of Moses After the Crossing of the Israelites Through the Black Sea, 1861
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy (Russian, 1837-1887)
Deuteronomy 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy 5:13-14
Six days you shall labour and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
Wigmore Church near Ludlow (panel in the Everitt Cabinet)
Samuel Henry Baker (1824-1909)
Birmingham Museums Trust
Deuteronomy 5:11
Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.
Image from a 1889 oil sketch of Friedrich Nietzsche on his sick bed by Hans Johann Wilhelm Olde. Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Germany.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today,
and take it to your heart,
that the Lord,
He is God in heaven above and on the earth below;
there is no other.
This beautiful painting is by American landscape artist Albert Bierstadt.
Rocky Mountains, "Lander's Peak", 1863
Bierstadt had an extraordinary ability to capture the majesty of wild America - and painting with light.
Deuteronomy 4:30-31 (ESV)
When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God.
'Despair' by Frank Holl. 1881. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Southampton City Art Gallery. Catalogue no. 21 in the 2013 Watts Gallery exhibition, Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows.
Deuteronomy 4:11-13
And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire...
'The Giving of the Law from Mt. Sinai', drawing by W. G. Phillips, engraving by Alonzo Chappel. My own colorisation.
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 15:37-39
Later, the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel..."
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
may the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
may the Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.
Leviticus 23:3
For six days work may be done,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest,
a day of sacred assembly.
You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord.
Painting by Edward Hopper
Early Sunday Morning
1930
Leviticus 20:26
You are to be holy to Me because I, the Lord, am holy,
and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbour, lest you incur sin because of him.
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
The Neighbours,1859
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)
Leviticus 16:20-22
Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.
As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people's sins upon itself into a desolate land.
Leviticus 5:7. Two turtledoves.
Rich or poor, all had their atoning sacrifice.
As Jesus said in Mark 12:44 - For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
Leviticus 5:17-19
If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
Exodus 40:36-38
So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.
Illustration by Paul Hardy, 'The Pillar of Fire' from The Art Bible, 1896. My own colourisation.
Exodus 34:8-9 New Stone Tablets
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Moses Receiving the Law, 1868
João Zeferino da Costa (Portuguese, 1840-1915)
Exodus 32:1-4
Moses hasn't even got back, and Aaron helps Israel turn to idolatry.
Broken leaders and broken people.
Exodus 28:1-5
Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests - Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
Our adorning under the gospel is not to be of gold and costly array, but the garments of salvation, the robe of righteousness.
Exodus 25:22
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat,
between the two cherubim that are over the Ark of the Testimony;
I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
