a survey

[cellio]

If you are so inclined, I'm curious about your response to the following (replies initially screened; will unscreen and explain Wednesday):

Without looking, summarize what happened at Mount Sinai according to the torah, starting with God beginning to speak and ending with the golden calf. I'm looking for up to a few sentences, not detailed essays. (You can skip the building of the calf.)

If you like, please also say how you identify religiously (or that you don't).

Edit: Comments no longer initially screened. Also, there was one comment that the poster asked me to keep screened, which I thought I had done, but it's gone now. If I screwed that up, I apologize!

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[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Not that I've studied this since, like, high school... but my recollection is that God spoke to Moshe up on the mountain, giving him at least the first part of the Law (I don't remember if all 613 commandments were given out in this session) and inscribed the first ten on two stone tablets. Meanwhile, down in the valley, the Israelites were getting restless; some of them fashioned an idol out of gold (or out of something else and then gilded it, not sure which), and persuaded the others to worship it. This turned into something of a wild romp. Moshe came down the mountain as the romp was going on, saw what was happening, got pissed off and threw the stone tablets down on the ground, breaking them.

(now going for the nearest bible to see how far off I was...)