Exodus 34Book 2 of 66 · 35 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. And the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
  2. So be prepared in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.
  3. And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds graze in front of that mountain.
  4. So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and Moses rose early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
  5. Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed his own name, the LORD.
  6. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
  7. Maintaining steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation.
  8. So Moses made haste and bowed low toward the earth, and worshiped.
  9. Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go along in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession."
  10. And He said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation, and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
  11. Be sure to observe what I command you this day, and behold, I am driving out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  12. Be careful that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.
  13. But you shall tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  14. You shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose very name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
  15. Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.
  16. And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons to play the harlot with their gods.
  17. You shall make no molten gods of cast metal for yourselves.
  18. You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
  19. All that open the womb belong to Me, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
  20. But the 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, and no one shall appear before Me empty-handed.
  21. Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
  22. You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
  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 the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet 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 anything leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left over until morning.
  26. The best of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God, and you shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
  27. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
  28. So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water, and 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 Testimony in his hand as he descended from the mountain, Moses did not realize that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with Him.
  30. So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone with radiance, and they were afraid to come near him.
  31. Then Moses called out to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.
  32. Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
  33. And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he covered his face with a veil.
  34. But 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 tell the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.
  35. And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was radiant, then Moses would replace the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with Him.