34Exodus 34

1Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.Select Exodus 34:1

2Be 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.Select Exodus 34:2

3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”Select Exodus 34:3

4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.Select Exodus 34:4

5Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.Select Exodus 34:5

6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,Select Exodus 34:6

7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that 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.”Select Exodus 34:7

8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.Select Exodus 34:8

9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”Select Exodus 34:9

10He 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 among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.Select Exodus 34:10

11Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.Select Exodus 34:11

12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in your midst:Select Exodus 34:12

13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;Select Exodus 34:13

14for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.Select Exodus 34:14

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;Select Exodus 34:15

16and 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.Select Exodus 34:16

17“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.Select Exodus 34:17

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.Select Exodus 34:18

19“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.Select Exodus 34:19

20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.Select Exodus 34:20

21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.Select Exodus 34:21

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.Select Exodus 34:22

23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.Select Exodus 34:23

24For 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 Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.Select Exodus 34:24

25“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.Select Exodus 34:25

26“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”Select Exodus 34:26

27Yahweh said to Moses, “Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”Select Exodus 34:27

28He was there with Yahweh 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.Select Exodus 34:28

29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony 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.Select Exodus 34:29

30When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.Select Exodus 34:30

31Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.Select Exodus 34:31

32Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.Select Exodus 34:32

33When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.Select Exodus 34:33

34But when Moses went in before Yahweh 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.Select Exodus 34:34

35The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.Select Exodus 34:35