Exodus 34

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

2 Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.

3 No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

5 And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.

6 Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

8 Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

9 “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

10 And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

11 Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

12 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

13 Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

14 For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

16 And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

17 You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

18 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

19 The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.

20 You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

22 And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

25 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

26 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

29 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

30 Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.

31 But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

32 And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.

33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

35 and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

5 ¶ And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation].

8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 ¶ And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 ¶ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 ¶ And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

33 And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.

35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone, like unto the first, that I may write upon them the words which were in the first tables which thou didst break.

2 And be ready in the morning to go up early unto mount Sinai, and there to meet me in the top of the mountain.

3 And let no man go up with thee, that no man be seen round about all the mountain: neither let sheep nor ox feed against this mountain.

4 And Moses cut two tables of stone, as the first were, and rose up early in the morning, and went up into mount Sinai, as the LORD commanded him, and took the two tables of stone in his hand.

5 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and stood there with him, and preached the name of the LORD.

6 And when the LORD was passed over before his face, he cried, O LORD God, merciful, and gracious, and patient, and of great mercy and faithfulness;

7 Who showest mercy to a thousand generations, and forgivest iniquity, and transgression, and sin; before whom no man is innocent: who visitest the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation.

8 And Moses made haste, and bowed himself to the earth, and worshipped him,

9 And said, If I, O LORD, have found grace in thine eyes, let the LORD go with us: for they are a stiffnecked people, that thou wilt have mercy on us for our iniquity and for our sin, and let us be thine inheritance.

10 And he said, Behold, I will make a covenant before all thy people, and will do wonders such as are not made in all countries, nor among all people: and all the people that are among thee shall see the work of the LORD: for wonderful shall be the work that I will do in thee.

11 Keep that which I command thee this day. Behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

12 Beware lest thou make a league with the inhabitants of the land, when thou comest in, lest they be a nuisance unto thee among you;

13 But thou shalt overthrow their altars, and break down their idols, and cut off their groves.

14 For thou shalt worship no other god. For the LORD is called a zealot, because he is a zealous God.

15 That, when thou makest a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, they may not invite thee, and thou mayest eat of their sacrifice;

16 And thou shalt take thy sons their daughters to be wives, and they shall whore after their gods, and make thy sons also to whore after their gods.

17 Thou shalt not make thee cast gods.

18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, about the time of the moon Abib: for in the moon Abib thou camest out of Egypt.

19 Every thing that first breaketh his mother is mine: that which shall be male in thy cattle which breaketh his mother, whether it be ox or sheep.

20 But the firstling of the ass shalt thou loose with a sheep. And if thou loose it not, then break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And let no man appear before me empty.

21 Six days shalt thou labour: on the seventh day shalt thou feast, both plowing and reaping:

22 The feast of weeks shalt thou keep with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering when the year is ended.

23 Three times in the year shall all the names of the men appear before the LORD, the LORD God of Israel.

24 When I cast out the heathen from before thee, and enlarge thy border, then shall no man desire thy land, while thou goest up three times in the year to appear before the LORD thy God.

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon the leavened bread: and the sacrifice of the passover shall remain until the morning.

26 The firstling of the firstfruits of thy field shalt thou bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil the kid while it is still at its mother's milk.

27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write these words: for according to these words have I made a covenant with thee, and with Israel.

28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights, eating one loaf, and drinking no water. And he wrote upon the tables this covenant, the ten words.

29 And Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in his hand, and knew not that the skin of his face shone because he had spoken unto him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw that the skin of his face shone, they feared to come near unto him.

31 And Moses called unto them, and they turned unto him, both Aaron, and all the rulers of the congregation: and he spake unto them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel drew nigh unto him. And he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken unto him in mount Sinai.

33 And when he spake all these things unto them, he put a covering upon his face.

34 And when he went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took off the covering, until he came out again. And when he came forth, and spake unto the children of Israel, as he was commanded,

35 Then the children of Israel looked upon his face, as the skin of his countenance shone: so he put the covering again upon his face, until he went in again to speak with him.