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// Chapter 6 
// Story: My Little Pony: Exodus 
// by HunterBrony101 
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Later, Moses brought his tribe, the Unicorns, and the Earth Ponies to the mountain where Amalthea tasked him. Amalthea wanted him there again. Moses went up the mountain with his young helper, Joshua. He stayed there 40 days and 40 nights. Back at the camp, everypony was beginning to doubt.

"Moses has been up there forever, he's probably dead!" A stallion shouted from the crowd.

The ponies frustrated by Moses' absence and Amalthea's inactivity had Aaron make them a god of their own: A Golden Calf. On the Mountain, Amalthea was speaking to Moses.

"Moses, I give to you the way to live. I give to you my Ten Commandments. Remember and teach them for the rest of time." Amalthea declared.

She then spoke her commandments, one by one she stated them and wrote them in stone with a word.

1: I am the Lady your Goddess, you will have no other gods before me. 

2: You will not worship any graven image. 

3: You will never take my name in vain. 

4: Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy. 

5: Honor your Father and your Mother.

6: You will not murder.

7: You will not commit adultery.

8: You will not steal.

9: You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10: You will not covet anything that is your neighbor's.

Moses then took them and walked back down to his tribe to present them, when he did, Joshua met him. 

"The light of Amalthea shines from you Moses."

"What is that?" Moses asked hearing something in the distance.

"Sounds like swords attacking."

"That's not war, it's celebration..."

Moses and Joshua went back to the source of the revelry.

Ponies were celebrating in sinful behaviors, all while paying tribute to the gold statue in drunken display of pagan worship and partying.

"It's Moses!" A pony shouted, this ceased all actions and eyes locked on Moses as he appeared, soon joy turned to fear, and amusement turned to shock as they felt convicted for their sin.

"What is this blasphemy I see before me?!" Moses roared in shock and anger. "You are not worthy of these Commandments that Amalthea has given me! Who is responsible for this?" 

Aaron knew that he was in trouble, he walked up to Moses with his head down.

" I am..." He confessed.

"Aaron? Why?"

"Everypony made me do it, they were afraid."

"Afraid of what?"

"They thought you were dead. They wanted a god who would lead them to happiness."

"Amalthea would provide for us! And you decide to commit heresy with this??"

Aaron hung his head in sadness and shame in reply.

"This is what I think of your golden god!" Moses stated as he threw the tablets at the calf.

The tablets shattered and the golden calf melted, suddenly, there was an earthquake. The earth opened and swallowed the sinners, they went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them, they died before Amalthea.

Much later after the display of anger on Amalthea's part, miles away, Star Swirl reported the destruction of the Laws.

"Amalthea's laws have been destroyed."

"How?" Solaris asked.

"Ask Moses..." He replied flatly.

"He destroyed them??"

"He did."

"Why would he do that?"

"It was because of the sins the ponies did."

"They would have to be terrible for such an act...."

Back on the mountain, Amalthea gave Moses another set of tablets. Moses came back down from the mountain and told the Commandments to the ponies. Amalthea then gave the ponies instructions to build an ark to house the tablets. They were to also to build a tabernacle. It was done. The tabernacle was ornate. And so was the Ark. 

Inside the tabernacle, Moses was speaking with Amalthea.

"How long will these ponies disobey me? How long will they turn their backs on all I have done for them? Perhaps I should just abandon them."

"Please...Do not forsake them....They need guidance."

"I will pardon them Moses, but not one of them will see the promised land, they must all wonder the wilderness until the last of their generations are gone. Their children, and their children's children will make the final journey without them."

"Yes Amalthea."

Because of the ponies' sins, they were forced to wander the wilderness for 40 years, until the older generation passed on.

To Be Continued.....