previously on the chosen people.

Go down at once.

Your people, whom you brought up from Egypt, have acted corruptly.

They have quickly turned away from the way I commanded them,

making an image of a golden calf.

Whoever has sinned against me, I will erase from my book.

Now go.

Lead the people to the place I told you about.

I will go before you.

But on the day I said to the counts,

I will hold them accountable for their sin.

The plague had chipped away at their numbers significantly.

There was scarcely a family to be found among them who had not been affected.

Now, spread the word among the camp.

This place is to be called the Tent of Meeting.

Anyone who wants to consult our God to seek spiritual counsel can do so here.

The first time Aaron saw Moses enter the Tent of meeting, hope was rekindled in his heart.

He had never seen anything quite like it.

Moses would walk out to the remote tent, away from the rest of the camp, and people would stand at the entryways to their own tents to observe.

Moses would enter the tent, and the pillar of cloud, just like the one that guided them

through the desert after they escaped from Egypt, would come down and remain at the entrance

to the tent.

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