Exodus 18 to 20: take two tablets and call me in the morning...

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law rocks up.

Verse 7 “And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.”

Jethro looks at Moses' workload

Verse 17-8 “... The thing that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee: thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.”

Jethro tulls, sorry, tells Moses how to delegate.

Verse 21 “Moreover thous shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness: and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”

Moses does as he is told.

Exodus 19

God tells Moses the new deal

Verse 7 "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation. These are to the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”

And says People Get Ready (wash clothes, no shagging for three days) Or rather, no bukkake-

Verse 15 “And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.”

And things get hot.

Verse 18 “And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.”

Sigh. Dry ice machines are SO 1980s...

God tells Moses that he and Aaron are on the guestlist, but the riff-raff cannae come up t'mountain.

Exodus 20

These verses seem vaguely familiar. Oh, yeah, it's the Ten Frigging Commandments.

Verse 18 “And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings [very very frightenings], and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountains smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood far off.”

God gets tetchy with the other gods thing, and specifies

Verse 25 “And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for it thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”

So, all those cathedrals I've gotten chronic unremitting Cathedral-fatigue from? Level them all, let God sort them out...