Tuesday, September 2 You yourselves will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.—Ex. 19:6. Jehovah began to fulfill his side of the Law covenant by arranging for a tent of worship and a priesthood that made it possible for sinful humans to approach him. Israel, on the other hand, quickly forgot their dedication to God and “pained even the Holy One of Israel.” (Ps. 78:41) For example, while Moses was busy receiving further instructions on Mount Sinai, the Israelites became impatient and began to lose faith in God, thinking that Moses had deserted them. So they made a golden image of a calf and said to the people: “This is your God, O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.” (Ex. 32:1, 4) Then they held what they called “a festival to Jehovah” and bowed down and sacrificed to their man-made image. Upon seeing that, Jehovah told Moses: “They have turned aside in a hurry from the way I have commanded them to go.”—Ex. 32:5, 6, 8. w12 10/15 3:10, 12 Exodus 19:6 6 You will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.” Psalm 78:41 41 Again and again they put God to the test, And they grieved* the Holy One of Israel. Exodus 32:1,4 32 Meanwhile, the people saw that Moses was taking a long time coming down from the mountain. So the people gathered around Aaron and said to him: “Get up, make for us a god who will go ahead of us, because we do not know what has happened to this Moses, the man who led us up out of the land of Egypt.”4 Then he took the gold from them, and he formed it with an engraving tool and made it into a statue* of a calf. They began to say: “This is your God, O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.” Exodus 32:5, 6 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. Then Aaron called out: “There is a festival to Jehovah tomorrow.” 6 So they got up early on the next day and began offering up burnt offerings and presenting communion sacrifices. After that the people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to have a good time. wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2014/9/2
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