H9001–/וַ–v

And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

וָאֵ֗פֶן (וָ) va. “and”וָֽאֵרֵד֙ (וָֽ) va. “and”

And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

וָאֵ֗רֶא (וָ) va. “and”

And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

וָאֶתְפֹּשׂ֙ (וָ) va. “and”וָֽאַשְׁלִכֵ֔ם (וָֽ) va. “and”וָאֲשַׁבְּרֵ֖ם (וָ) va. “and”

And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

וָֽאֶתְנַפַּל֩ (וָֽ) va. “and”

For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע (וַ) va “and”

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

וָֽאֶתְפַּלֵּ֛ל (וָֽ) va. “and”

And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.

וָאֶשְׂרֹ֣ף (וָ) va. “and”וָאֶכֹּ֨ת (וָ) va. “and”וָֽאַשְׁלִךְ֙ (וָֽ) va. “and”

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

וַתַּמְר֗וּ (וַ) va. “and”

So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

וָֽאֶתְנַפַּ֞ל (וָֽ) va. “and”

And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.

וָאֶתְפַּלֵּ֣ל (וָ) va. “and”וָאֹמַר֒ (וָ) va. “and”

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

וְשַׂמְתָּ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

וָאַ֤עַשׂ (וָ) va. “and”וָאֶפְסֹ֛ל (וָ) va. “and”וָאַ֣עַל (וָ) va. “and”

And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם (וַ) va “and”

And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

וָאֵ֗פֶן (וָ) va. “and”וָֽאֵרֵד֙ (וָֽ) va. “and”וָֽאָשִׂם֙ (וָֽ) va. “and”וַיִּ֣הְיוּ (וַ) va “and”

(And the children of Israel went on from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: there death came to Aaron and he was put to rest in the earth; and Eleazar, his son, took his place as priest.

וַיִּקָּבֵ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַיְכַהֵ֛ן (וַ) va “and”

And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send destruction on you.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע (וַ) va “and”

Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers that I would give them.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

וַיִּבְחַ֞ר (וַ) va “and”

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם (וּ) u. “and”

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

וַאֲהַבְתֶּ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”

And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

וִֽידַעְתֶּם֮ (וִֽ) vi. “and”

And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages; how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day;

וַיְאַבְּדֵ֣ם (וַ) va “and”