The Lord said to Moses. The brief transition marks the divine response to the gathering of the community. God speaks to Moses at the moment the community has been assembled before Him. The sequence — Moses summons, Aaron speaks, community gathers, glory appears, God speaks — is the liturgical structure of covenant encounter: approach, presence, word. Every subsequent liturgical gathering in Israel's worship will follow variations of this structure, from the covenant ceremony of Exodus 24 to the temple dedication of 1 Kings 8 to the New Testament gathering in Hebrews 10:22–25. The God who speaks at the moment of communal gathering is the God whose word defines what the gathering is for.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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