Today is the fourth day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together.

Our next step leads us back into the book of Exodus, where we are in the wilderness with the children of Israel.

We have been reading from the New English translation this week, which is what we will continue to do today.

Exodus, Chapter 19, verse 16, through 21, verse 21.

On the third day, in the morning, there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn.

All the people who were in the camp trembled. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking, and God was answering him with a voice.

The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

The Lord said to Moses, go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

Let the priests also, who approached the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through against them.

Moses said to the Lord, the people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai because you solemnly warned us, set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.

The Lord said to him, go, get down, and then come up, and err in with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the Lord, lest he break through against them.

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

God spoke all these words.

I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water below.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them.

For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

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