Moses on Mount Sinai Helping the
people remember the Lord
Moses and the Israelites traveled
through the wilderness.
They came to a mountain called
Mount Sinai.
Moses climbed the mountain to
speak to the Lord.
The Lord told Moses that He wanted
to talk to the Israelites face to face.
The Israelites came to the base of
Mount Sinai, and the Lord caused a cloud of smoke to
surround the mountain.
The Lord was in the cloud.
He spoke to the Israelites and
gave them commandments.
The mountain shook as He talked.
The Israelites were afraid.
They asked Moses to speak with the
Lord so that Moses could tell them what the Lord wanted.
Moses took Aaron and 70 Israelite
elders to the mountain to receive more of the Lord’s teachings.
The Lord appeared to them.
Then the Lord told Moses to leave
the elders and go even higher up the mountain.
Moses obeyed.
The Lord used His finger to write
His law and commandments on stone tablets.
For 40 days, the Lord taught Moses
many things.
While Moses was on Mount Sinai,
the people of Israel got tired of waiting for him.
They told Aaron to make statues
for them to worship like they had in Egypt.
Aaron gathered all their gold and
made a statue of a calf.
The Israelites worshipped the
golden calf and offered sacrifices.
They said the golden calf, not the
Lord, freed them from Egypt.
The Lord knew the Israelites were
worshipping an idol
and forgetting Him.
He commanded Moses to go back and
tell the people to repent.
Moses came down from Mount Sinai
and saw the Israelites
worshipping the golden calf.
He was very upset.
The people weren’t ready to obey
the law and commandments the Lord had written.
Moses broke the tablets and
destroyed the golden calf.
He helped the Israelites repent
and remember their true God.
Moses asked the Lord to forgive
the Israelites and to make promises with them again.
Moses promised to lead and teach
them.
The Lord asked Moses to create new
stone tablets and go back to Mount Sinai.
The Lord made a new promise with
the Israelites and gave them His Ten Commandments.