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Then Mosesentreated the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does Your angerburn against Your peoplewhom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with greatpower and with a mightyhand?
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"Why should the Egyptiansspeak, saying, 'With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth '? Turn from Your burninganger and change Your mindabout doing harm to Your people.
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"RememberAbraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and allthisland of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.' "
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Then Mosesturned and wentdown from the mountain with the twotablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on bothsides; they were written on one side and the other.