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DY GU U ID T E S Gives Us the Law 11 Keep these ideas in mind as you study Chapter 11.

✤ To keep the Chosen People safe, God had ✤ made a golden calf while was Moses and Aaron lead the people by a long, on the mountain. The people broke the First indirect route to the Promised Land. The Commandment by worshiping the calf. journey would take 40 years.  97 When Moses saw the golden calf, he grew so angry that he smashed the commandments ✤ The traveled without water through and melted down the calf.  99 the desert. The oasis known as had water, but it was bitter until God told Moses ✤ Moses had a special friendship with God. He how to make it fresh. Later, God told Moses prayed that God would forgive the people to strike a rock, from which water  owed. for their idolatry, and God listened. God The people complained again and again, but forgave his people, renewed the Covenant, God always took care of them.  97–98 and replaced the broken tablets.  99

✤ When the people had nothing to eat, God ✤ The Eucharist is a special gift, much like the sent them quail in the evening and manna in manna God provided for the Israelites. It the morning. Manna was called “bread from nourishes us during our spiritual journeys. .” This story foretells the Eucharist, It brings us into union with Christ and because Jesus refers to himself as the bread his saving Death and Resurrection.  100 that came down from heaven.  97 ✤ The Sacraments of Baptism, Con rmation, ✤ God gave Moses the and the Eucharist bring us into the on a mountain in Sinai. God said that Church. The Sacraments of Penance and the Israelites would be his people if they Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick followed his law. When Moses told the are ways that we can be healed. Everyone people the commandments, they were from time to time. The important grateful. They made a Covenant with God, thing to remember is that when we , promising to obey God’s law.  99 we should confess our sins in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.  100 ✤ The Ten Commandments were kept in the . The Ark was a For more games, activities, and resources related to sign of God’s presence and a reminder of Christ Our Life, please visit www.christourlife.com. the Covenant.  99 ©

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