13「耶和华又对我说：『我看这百姓是硬着颈项的百姓。
14你且由着我，我要灭绝他们，将他们的名从天下涂抹，使你的后裔比他们成为更大更强的国。』
15于是我转身下山，山被火烧着，两块约版在我两手之中。
16我一看见你们得罪了耶和华－你们的 神，铸成了牛犊，快快地偏离了耶和华所吩咐你们的道，
17我就把那两块版从我手中扔下去，在你们眼前*摔碎了。
18因你们所犯的一切罪，行了耶和华眼中看为恶的事，惹他发怒，我就像从前俯伏在耶和华面前四十昼夜，没有吃饭，也没有喝水。
19我因耶和华向你们大发烈怒，要灭绝你们，就甚害怕；但那次耶和华又应允了我。
20耶和华也向亚伦甚是发怒，要灭绝他；那时我又为亚伦祈祷。
21我把那叫你们犯罪所铸的牛犊用火焚烧，又捣碎磨得很细，以致细如灰尘，我就把这灰尘撒在从山上流下来的溪水中。
13And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!
14Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
15So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
16When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
17So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.
18Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.
19I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me.
20And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.
21Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.
1.神对摩西说，要如何对待这些硬着颈项的以色列百姓？（14, 16节）
2.摩西为以色列百姓和亚伦做了什么事？（18~20节）
3.为什么神原本愤而想要除灭以色列人，最终还是听了摩西的祷告？
4.摩西为了拯救以色列人和亚伦，跪在神面前禁食祷告，对此你有何感受？
5.你最近想为其恳切代祷的灵魂是谁？
6.为了那需要神的怜悯和救恩的灵魂，你需要做什么？
摔碎了（17节）： 意表以色列百姓破坏了他们与神所立的约。
诗106:23 “因此，他说要灭绝他们；若非他所拣选的摩西在他面前站在破裂之处，使他的愤怒转消，恐怕他就灭绝他们了。”
结18:23 “恶人死亡，岂是我所喜悦的呢？我岂不是喜悦他回转离开所行的道而存活吗？这是主耶和华说的。”
摩西上何烈山拿两块石版的期间，以色列百姓却悖逆了神，为自己造一个金牛犊（16节）。这时摩西愤而在百姓面前摔碎了两块约版，象征神与百姓之间的约已被破坏（17节）。并且，神震怒于以色列的罪恶与偶像崇拜，声称要除灭他们（14节）。然而，摩西却为这些危在旦夕的以色列百姓与亚伦，在神面前长达40昼夜禁食祷告，因为摩西明白自己的使命就是代替以色列人在神面前求怜悯（参诗106:23）。至终，神听了摩西的祷告，收回祂的震怒（19节），因为神并不乐见毁灭一切，而是希望他们回转离开所行的恶（参结18:23）。因此，作为一个基督徒，我们要看见其他人与所属群体在灵性上的需要，并以怜悯恳切的心为此祷告。
求神让我为自己也为他人祈求祢的怜悯与恩典，并为此恳切祷告。
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