Wisdom & Truth Verses

Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant {were} in my two hands.

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, {and} ground {it} very small, {even} until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down {at the first}; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

And I made an ark {of} shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD {is} his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.