CHAPTER 34
Then the LORD
said
to
Moses,
“Chisel out
two
stone
tablets
like the original ones,
and I will write
on
them
the words
that
were
on
the first
tablets,
which
you broke.
Be
ready
in the morning,
and come up
on Mount
Sinai
to present yourself
before Me
on
the mountaintop.
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.”
So Moses
chiseled
two
stone
tablets
like the originals.
He rose early
in the morning,
and taking
the two
stone
tablets
in his hand,
he ascended
Mount
Sinai
as
the LORD
had commanded him.
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 truth,
maintaining
loving devotion
to a thousand generations,
forgiving
iniquity,
transgression,
and sin.
Yet He will by no
means
excuse the guilty;
He will visit
the iniquity
of the fathers
on
their children
and grandchildren
to
the third
and fourth generations.”
“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.”
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.
Observe
what
I
command you
this day.
I will drive out
before you
the Amorites,
Canaanites,
Hittites,
Perizzites,
Hivites,
and Jebusites.
Be careful
not
to make
a treaty
with the inhabitants
of the land
you
are entering,
lest
they become
a snare
in your midst.
Rather,
you must tear down
their altars,
smash
their sacred stones,
and chop down
their Asherah poles.
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;
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.
You are to observe
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.
The first offspring
of every
womb
belongs to Me,
including all
the firstborn
males
among your livestock,
whether cattle
or sheep.
You must redeem
the firstborn
of a donkey
with a lamb;
but if
you do not
redeem it,
break its neck.
You must redeem
all
the firstborn
of your sons.
No
one shall appear
before Me
empty-handed.
Six
days
you shall labor,
but on the seventh
day
you shall rest;
even in plowing
and harvesting seasons,
you must rest.
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.
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.
Do not
offer
the blood
of My sacrifice
along with
anything leavened,
and do not let
any of the sacrifice
from the Passover
Feast
remain
until morning.
Bring
the best
of the firstfruits
of your soil
to the house
of the LORD
your God.
You shall not
cook
a young goat
in its mother’s
milk.”
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.”
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.
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.
Aaron
and all
the Israelites
looked at
Moses,
and behold,
his face
was radiant.
And they were afraid
to approach
him.
But Moses
called out
to them;
so Aaron
and all
the leaders
of the congregation
returned
to him,
and Moses
spoke
to them.
And after
this
all
the Israelites
came near,
and Moses commanded
them to do everything
that
the LORD
had told him
on Mount
Sinai.
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,
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.