Moses

Moshe got up, also Y'hoshua his assistant; and Moshe went up onto the mountain of God.

Moshe went up onto the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. (A: Maftir)

The glory of ADONAI stayed on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moshe out of the cloud.

Moshe entered the cloud and went up on the mountain; he was on the mountain forty days and nights.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take aromatic plant substances - balsam resin, sweet onycha root and bitter galbanum gum - these spices along with frankincense, all in equal quantities;

ADONAI said to Moshe,

ADONAI said to Moshe,

When he had finished speaking with Moshe on Mount Sinai, ADONAI gave him the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

When the people saw that Moshe was taking a long time to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aharon and said to him, "Get busy; and make us gods to go ahead of us; because this Moshe, the man that brought us up from the land of Egypt - we don't know what has become of him."

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Go down! Hurry! Your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have become corrupt!

ADONAI continued speaking to Moshe: "I have been watching these people; and you can see how stiffnecked they are.

Moshe pleaded with ADONAI his God. He said, "ADONAI, why must your anger blaze against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?

Moshe turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets inscribed on both sides, on the front and on the back.

When Y'hoshua heard the noise of the people shouting he said to Moshe, "It sounds like war in the camp!"

Moshe said to Aharon, "What did these people do to you to make you lead them into such a terrible sin?"

So they said to me, 'Make us gods to go ahead of us; because this Moshe, the man that brought us up from the land of Egypt - we don't know what has become of him.'

When Moshe saw that the people had gotten out of control - because Aharon had allowed them to get out of control, to the derision of their enemies -

Moshe stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "Whoever is for ADONAI, come to me!"All the descendants of Levi rallied around him.

The sons of Levi did what Moshe said, and that day three thousand of the people died.

Moshe said, "You have consecrated yourselves today to ADONAI, because every one of you has been against his own son and against his own kinsman, in order to bring a blessing on yourselves today."

The next day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to ADONAI ; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."