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Revelation on Sinai
1 And it came to pass in the first
year of the exodus of the children of
Israel out of Egypt, in
the third month, on the sixteenth day of the
month, that God
spake to Moses, saying: "Come up to Me on the
Mount, and I
will give thee two tables of stone of the law and of the
commandment,
which I have written, that thou mayst teach them."
2 And
Moses went up into the mount of God, and the glory of the Lord
abode
on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.
3 And He
called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the
cloud,
and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming
fire
on the top of the Mount.
4 And Moses was on the Mount
forty days and forty nights, and God
taught him the earlier and
the later history of the division of all the days
of the law
and of the testimony.
5 And He said: "Incline thine heart
to every word which I shall speak to
thee on this Mount, and
write them in a book in order that their
generations may see
how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which
they have
wrought in transgressing the covenant which I establish
between
Me and thee for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.
6
And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon
them,
that they will recognize that I am more righteous than
they in all their
judgments and in all their actions, and they
will recognize that I have
been truly with them.
7 And do
thou write for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee
this
day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I
bring
them into the land of which I sware to their fathers, to
Abraham and to
Isaac and to Jacob, saying: "Unto your seed
will I give a land flowing with
milk and honey.
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And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to strange
gods, to
(gods) which cannot deliver them from aught of their
tribulation: "and
this witness shall be heard for a
witness against them.
9 For they will forget all My
commandments, (even) all that I command
them, and they will
walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness,
and after
their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove unto
them
an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
10
And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall
into
the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My
ordinances and
My commandments, and the festivals of My
covenant, and My sabbaths,
and My holy place which I have
hallowed for Myself in their midst, and
My tabernacle, and My
sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in
the midst of the
land, that I should set My name upon it, and that it
should
dwell (there).
11 And they will make to themselves high places
and groves and graven
images, and they will worship, each his
own (graven image), so as to go
astray, and they will sacrifice
their children to demons, and to all the
works of the error of
their hearts.
12 And I will send witnesses unto them, that I
may witness against them,
but they will not hear, and will slay
the witnesses also, and they will
persecute those who seek the
law, and they will abrogate and change
everything so as to work
evil before My eyes.
13 And I shall hide My face from them, and
I shall deliver them into the
hand of the Gentiles for
captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I
shall
remove them from the midst of the land, and I shall scatter them
amongst
the Gentiles.
14 And they will forget all My law and all My
commandments and all My
judgments, and will go astray as to new
moons, and sabbaths, and
festivals, and jubilees, and
ordinances.
15 And after this they will turn to Me from amongst
the Gentiles with all
their heart and with all their soul and
with all their strength, and I shall
gather them from amongst
all the Gentiles, and they will seek Me, so that
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shall be found of them, when they seek Me with all their heart and
with
all their soul.
16 And I shall disclose to them
abounding peace with righteousness, and I
shall †remove them
the plant of uprightness†, with all My heart and with
all My
soul, and they will be for a blessing and not for a curse, and
they
will be the head and not the tail.
17 And I shall
build My sanctuary in their midst, and I shall dwell with
them,
and I shall be their God and they will be My people in truth and
righteousness.
18
And I shall not forsake them nor fail them; for I am the Lord
their
God."
19 And Moses fell on his face and prayed
and said, "O Lord my God, do
not forsake Thy people and
Thy inheritance, so that they should wander
in the error of
their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their
enemies,
the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to
sin
against Thee.
20 Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be lifted up upon Thy
people, and create in
them an upright spirit, and let not the
spirit of Beliar rule over them to
accuse them before Thee, and
to ensnare them from all the paths of
righteousness, so that
they may perish from before Thy face.
21 But they are Thy
people and Thy inheritance, which Thou hast
delivered with Thy
great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in
them a
clean heart and a holy Spirit, and let them not be ensnared in
their
sins from henceforth until eternity."
22 And
the Lord said unto Moses: "I know their contrariness and
their
thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be
obedient till they
confess their own sin and the sin of their
fathers.
23 And after this they will turn to Me in all
uprightness and with all (their)
heart and with all (their)
soul, and I shall circumcise the foreskin of their
heart and
the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I shall create in
them
a holy spirit, and I shall cleanse them so that they shall
not turn away
from Me from that day unto eternity.
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And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and
they
will fulfil My commandments, and I shall be their Father and they
will
be My children.
25 And they will all be called children of the
living God, and every angel
and every spirit will know, yea,
they will know that these are My children,
and that I am their
Father in uprightness and righteousness, and that I
love
them.
26 And do thou write down for thyself all these words
which I declare
unto thee on this mountain, the first and the
last, which shall come to
pass in all the divisions of the days
in the law and in the testimony and in
the weeks and the
jubilees unto eternity, until I descend and dwell with
them
throughout eternity."
27 And He said to the angel of the
presence: "Write for Moses from the
beginning of creation
till My sanctuary has been built among them for all
eternity.
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And the Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all will know that
I am
the God of Israel and the Father of all the children of
Jacob, and King on
Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and
Jerusalem will be holy."
29 And the angel of the presence
who went before the camp of Israel took
the tables of the
divisions of the years --from the time of the creation--of
the
law and of the testimony of the weeks, of the jubilees, according
to
the individual years, according to all the number of the
jubilees
[according to the individual years], from the day of
the [new] creation
†when† the heavens and the earth shall be
renewed and all their creation
according to the powers of the
heaven, and according to all the creation
of the earth, until
the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on
Mount
Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace
and
for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be
from
that day and unto all the days of the earth.
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