Nehemiah 9:13

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

God spoke all these words, saying,

“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.

but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,