Moses and the Burning Bush

3 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,^[a] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,^[b] the mountain of God.^(A)

¹⁰ The day you stood before the Lord your God^(A) at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me^(B) all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

Worshiping the True God

¹⁵ “Diligently watch yourselves—because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb—

² The Lord our God made a covenant^(A) with us at Horeb.

¹⁶ This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ ^(A)

⁹ Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb,^[a](A) where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.^(B)

⁸ So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights^(A) to Horeb, the mountain of God.^(B)

A Final Warning

⁴ “Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb^(A) for all Israel.