Chapter 34
1 The LORD said to Moses , "Chisel two stone tablets like the first . I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets , which you broke .
2 Be ready by the morning , and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai , and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain .
3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain . Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain ."
4 He chiselled two tablets of stone like the first ; then Moses rose up early in the morning , and went up to Mount Sinai , as the LORD had commanded him , and took in his hand two stone tablets .
5 The LORD descended in the cloud , and stood with him there , and proclaimed the LORD ’s name .
6 The LORD passed by before him , and proclaimed , " The LORD ! The LORD , a merciful and gracious God , slow to anger , and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin ; and who will by no means clear the guilty , visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children , and on the children ’s children , on the third and on the fourth generation ."
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head towards the earth, and worshipped .
9 He said, " If now I have found favour in your sight , Lord, please let the Lord go amongst us , even though this is a stiff-necked people ; pardon our iniquity and our sin , and take us for your inheritance ."
10 He said, " Behold , I make a covenant : before all your people I will do marvels , such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation ; and all the people amongst whom you are shall see the work of the LORD ; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you .
11 Observe that which I command you today . Behold , I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite , the Hittite , the Perizzite , the Hivite , and the Jebusite .
12 Be careful , lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare amongst you ;
13 but you shall break down their altars , and dash in pieces their pillars , and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
14 for you shall worship no other god ; for the LORD , whose name is Jealous , is a jealous God .
15 "Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice ;
16 and you take of their daughters to your sons , and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
17 " You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
18 " You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread . Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread , as I commanded you , at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt .
19 " All that opens the womb is mine ; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep .
20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb . If you will not redeem it , then you shall break its neck . You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons . No one shall appear before me empty .
21 " Six days you shall work , but on the seventh day you shall rest : in ploughing time and in harvest you shall rest .
22 " You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest , and the feast of harvest at the year ’s end .
23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD , the God of Israel .
24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders ; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD , your God , three times in the year .
25 " You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread . The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning .
26 " You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God . " You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk ."
27 The LORD said to Moses , " Write these words ; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel ."
28 He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights ; he neither ate bread , nor drank water . He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant , the ten commandments .
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses ’ hand , when he came down from the mountain , Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him .
30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses , behold , the skin of his face shone ; and they were afraid to come near him .
31 Moses called to them , and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him ; and Moses spoke to them .
32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near , and he gave them all the commandments that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai .
33 When Moses was done speaking with them , he put a veil on his face .
34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him , he took the veil off , until he came out ; and he came out , and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded .
35 The children of Israel saw Moses ’ face , that the skin of Moses ’ face shone ; so Moses put the veil on his face again , until he went in to speak with him .