Exodus 34

¹And the LORD said to Moses, 'Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the first tablets, which you broke.'

²And be ready by morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there before me on the top of the mountain.

³And let no man come up with you; let no man even be seen anywhere on the mountain; and let neither flocks nor herds graze opposite that mountain.

⁴And he hewed two tablets of stone like the first ones, and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

⁵And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and he called out in the name of the LORD.

⁶And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed: 'The LORD, the LORD, a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'

⁷keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.

⁸And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the ground and prostrated himself.

⁹And he said: If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let my Lord go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.

¹⁰And he said, Behold, I am about to cut a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders such as have not been created in all the earth or among all the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

¹¹Keep for yourself what I command you today. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²Take care lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

¹³For their altars you shall tear down, and their pillars you shall break to pieces, and their Asherim you shall cut down.

¹⁴For you shall not bow down to another god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

¹⁵Lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and one invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.

¹⁶and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and cause your sons also to go whoring after their gods.

¹⁷You shall not make for yourself gods of cast metal.

¹⁸The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

¹⁹Every firstborn that opens the womb is mine, and all your livestock that drops a male, the firstborn of cattle and sheep.

²⁰And the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a sheep; and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before me empty-handed.

²¹Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall cease; in plowing time and in harvest you shall cease.

²²And you shall observe for yourself the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

²³Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

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

²⁵You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; and the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left until morning.

²⁶The choicest firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

²⁷And the LORD said to Moses: Write for yourself these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

²⁸And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand — when he came down from the mountain — that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been speaking with him.

³⁰And Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

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

³²And afterward all the people of Israel drew near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

³³And when Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

³⁴But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the people of Israel what he had been commanded.

³⁵And the children of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses's face was radiant; and Moses would put the veil back over his face, until he went in to speak with him.