Chapter 34
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two stone tablets
like the former, that I may write on them the commandments which were on the
former tablets that you broke. 2 Get ready for
tomorrow morning, when you are to go up Mount Sinai and there present yourself
to me on the top of the mountain. 3 No one shall
come up with you, and no one is even to be seen on any part of the mountain;
even the flocks and the herds are not to go grazing toward this mountain."
4 Moses then cut two stone tablets like the
former, and early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had
commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets. 5
Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with him there and proclaimed his
name, "LORD."
6 Thus the LORD
passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and
gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, 7 continuing his kindness for a thousand generations,
and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty
guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth
generation for their fathers' wickedness!" 8
Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. 9
Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our
company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and
sins, and receive us as your own."
10 "Here, then," said the LORD, "is the
covenant I will make. Before the eyes of all your people I will work such
marvels as have never been wrought in any nation anywhere on earth, so that
this people among whom you live may see how awe-inspiring are the deeds which
I, the LORD, will do at your side. 11 But you,
on your part, must keep the commandments I am giving you today. "I will
drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites. 12 Take care, therefore, not to
make a covenant with these inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; else
they will become a snare among you. 13 Tear down
their altars; smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.
14 You shall not worship any other god, for the LORD
is 'the Jealous One'; a jealous God is he. 15 Do
not make a covenant with the inhabitants of that land; else, when they render
their wanton worship to their gods and sacrifice to them, one of them may
invite you and you may partake of his sacrifice. 16
Neither shall you take their daughters as wives for your sons; otherwise, when
their daughters render their wanton worship to their gods, they will make your
sons do the same.
17 "You shall not make for yourselves molten
gods.
18 "You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread.
For seven days at the prescribed 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 "To me belongs every first-born male that
opens the womb among all your livestock, whether in the herd or in the flock. 20 The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with one
of the flock; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. The first-born
among your sons you shall redeem. "No one shall appear before me
empty-handed.
21 "For six days you may work, but on the seventh
day you shall rest; on that day you must rest even during the seasons of plowing
and harvesting.
22 "You shall keep the feast of Weeks with the
first of the wheat harvest; likewise, the feast at the fruit harvest at the
close of the year.
23 Three times a year all your men shall appear before
the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.
24 Since I will drive out the nations before you to
give you a large territory, there will be no one to covet your land when you go
up three times a year to appear before the LORD, your God.
25 "You shall not offer me the blood of sacrifice
with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover feast be kept
overnight for the next day.
26 "The choicest first fruits of your soil you
shall bring to the house of the LORD, your God. "You shall not boil a kid
in its mother's milk." #
27 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these
words, for in accordance with them I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel."
28 So Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days
and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote
on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 As Moses
came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his
hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he
conversed with the LORD. 30 When Aaron, then,
and the other Israelites saw Moses and noticed how radiant the skin of his face
had become, they were afraid to come near him. 31
Only after Moses called to them did Aaron and all the rulers of the community
come back to him. Moses then spoke to them. 32
Later on, all the Israelites came up to him, and he enjoined on them all that
the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai. 33 When he
finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34 Whenever Moses entered the presence of the LORD to
converse with him, he removed the veil until he came out again. On coming out,
he would tell the Israelites all that had been commanded. 35 Then the Israelites would see that the skin of
Moses' face was radiant; so he would again put the veil over his face until he
went in to converse with the LORD."
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