Exodus 34:5
And the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him, and Moses called on the name of the Lord.
And the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him, and Moses called on the name of the Lord.
So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first, and, with the two tablets of stone in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai in the early morning, as the Lord had commanded.
No one will go up with you, and no one is to be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the sheep and the cattle are not to graze near the mountain.”
Be ready in the morning, come up to Mount Sinai, and wait for me on the top of the mountain.
New covenant – Passage of Glory The Lord said to Moses: “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
I answered them: “The God of heaven shall grant us success. We, his servants, are now going to build. But as for you, you have neither right nor inheritance nor anything to do with Jerusalem.”
Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite officer, and Geshem the Arab heard of this. They laughed at us and came to tell us: “What are you doing? You are rebelling against the king.”
And I recounted to them how the good hand of God had helped me and what the king had told me. Everyone said: “Let us begin the work.” And they encouraged one another to make this good work a reality.
Then I said to them: “You yourselves see the misery we are in because Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates are burned. Come, let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and end this humiliating situation.”