The LORD said to Moses, "I will do just as you have asked, because I know you very well and I am pleased with you."

He said, "Lord, if you really are pleased with me, I ask you to go with us. These people are stubborn, but forgive our evil and our sin, and accept us as your own people."

Teach me your ways, O LORD; make them known to me.

Teach me, LORD, what you want me to do, and lead me along a safe path, because I have many enemies.

Teach me, LORD, what you want me to do, and I will obey you faithfully; teach me to serve you with complete devotion.

Teach me, LORD, the meaning of your laws, and I will obey them at all times.

Tell me, my love, Where will you lead your flock to graze? Where will they rest from the noonday sun? Why should I need to look for you among the flocks of the other shepherds?

Don't you know the place, loveliest of women? Go and follow the flock; find pasture for your goats near the tents of the shepherds.

If you wander off the road to the right or the left, you will hear his voice behind you saying, "Here is the road. Follow it."

Then Moses requested, "Please, let me see the dazzling light of your presence."

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.

Then you will be able to live as the Lord wants and will always do what pleases him. Your lives will produce all kinds of good deeds, and you will grow in your knowledge of God.

But continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, now and forever! Amen.

The LORD said to Moses, "Hurry and go back down, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have sinned and rejected me.

And I prayed, 'Sovereign LORD, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power.

After all, these are the people whom you chose to be your own and whom you brought out of Egypt by your great power and might.'

Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you? Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours.

You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people.

The priests, serving the LORD between the altar and the entrance of the Temple, must weep and pray: "Have pity on your people, LORD. Do not let other nations despise us and mock us by saying, 'Where is your God?' "

Because they reject the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for the sake of you Gentiles. But because of God's choice, they are his friends because of their ancestors.