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 26:3-5
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
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.
Leviticus 19:17-18
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.
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.”
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 26
The Tabernacle.
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.
Exodus 24:16-17
The Covenant Sealed.
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
'Cana - View of Sunset'. Colour lithograph of sun setting over landscape with Cana in the distance, Israel. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.
If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
"Widowed and Fatherless", 1888, oil on canvas, by Thomas Benjamin Kennington.
Exodus 20:18-19
Moses is given the Ten Commandments.
When all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
Exodus 19:10-11
Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
'The Ten Commandments',
Illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907
Exodus 18:20-21
Jethro's advice to Moses.
Illustration by Jan van Bronchorst, 'Jethro Advising Moses' - painting, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, 1659.
Exodus 17:3-6
"What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!"
Exodus 16:17-18
Manna from Heaven.
Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) - The Hebrews Gathering Manna in the Wilderness (c. 1740), oil on canvas, 92 x 67 cm. This amazing painting appears to be a study for a later work, The Gathering of the Manna (1738-42). The study buzzes with energy missing from the latter.
Exodus 15:24-25
It only took three days.
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
Painting by Nicolas Poussin, 1628 - Moses Sweetening the Bitter Waters of Marah.