THE BOOK OF EXODUS

 

Exodus Chapter 34

1 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses, Cut two tables of stone like the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were on the first tables, that you broke.

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning onto mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

3 And no man should come up with you, or be seen anywhere on the mountain; nor should the flocks or herds graze in front of the mountain.

4 And he cut two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up onto 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, as he called on the name of the Lord.

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

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet who will by no means overlook sin; 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 quickly bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray you, go among us; even though this is a stubborn people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.

10 ¶ And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do such wonders, as have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation: and all the people whom you are among shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a fearful and awe-inspiring thing that I will do with you.

11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you:

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

14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they go a whoring after their gods committing spiritual adultery, and sacrifice to their gods, one invite you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

16 And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

18 ¶ You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib: for you came out of Egypt in the month Abib.

19 All the males who open the womb are mine; including the firstborn of your livestock, whether ox or sheep.

20 But the firstborn of a donkey shall be redeemed with a lamb: and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. And none of you shall appear before me empty-handed.

21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: even in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

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

24 For I will cast out the 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 leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until morning.

26 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

27 And 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 ¶ And Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, or drank water. And he wrote on 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 the testimony in his hand, as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with the Lord.

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 near him.

31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him: and Moses talked with them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on mount Sinai.

33 And when Moses had finished 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 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with God.