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Exodus
Chapter 34
1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Hew thee
two tables of stone like unto the first;
and I will write upon the tables the words
that were on the first tables, which thou
didst break. 2 And be ready by the
morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to
Me on the top of the mount. 3 And no man
shall come up with thee, neither let any
man be seen throughout all the mount;
neither let the flocks nor herds feed
before that mount.' 4 And he hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first; and
Moses rose up early in the morning, and
went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had
commanded him, and took in his hand two
tables of stone. 5 And the LORD descended
in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And
the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed: 'The LORD, the LORD, God,
merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth; 7 keeping
mercy unto the thousandth generation,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and
sin; and that will by no means clear the
guilty; visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, and upon the
children's children, unto the third and
unto the fourth generation.' 8 And Moses
made haste, and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshipped. 9 And he said: 'If
now I have found grace in Thy sight, O
Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the
midst of us; for it is a stiff necked
people; and pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.'
10 And He said: 'Behold, I make a
covenant; before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been wrought in
all the earth, nor in any nation; and all
the people among which thou art shall see
the work of the LORD that I am about to do
with thee, that it is tremendous. 11
Observe thou that which I am commanding
thee this day; behold, I am driving out
before thee the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. 12 Take heed to thyself, lest
thou make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land whither thou goest, lest they
be for a snare in the midst of thee. 13
But ye shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall
cut down their Asherim. 14 For thou shalt
bow down to no other god; for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God;
15 lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go
astray after their gods, and do sacrifice
unto their gods, and they call thee, and
thou eat of their sacrifice; 16 and thou
take of their daughters unto thy sons, and
their daughters go astray after their
gods, and make thy sons go astray after
their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no
molten gods. 18 The feast of unleavened
bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, at the time appointed in the month
Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest
out from Egypt. 19 All that openeth the
womb is Mine; and of all thy cattle thou
shalt sanctify the males, the firstlings
of ox and sheep. 20 And the firstling of
an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and
if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou
shalt break its neck. All the first-born
of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none
shall appear before Me empty. 21 Six days
thou shalt work, but on the seventh day
thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in
harvest thou shalt rest. 22 And thou shalt
observe the feast of weeks, even of the
first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the
feast of ingathering at the turn of the
year. 23 Three times in the year shall all
thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the
God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out
nations before thee, and enlarge thy
borders; neither shall any man covet thy
land, when thou goest up to appear before
the LORD thy God three times in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither
shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left unto the morning. 26
The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou
shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy
God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its
mother's milk.'
27 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write
thou these words, for after the tenor of
these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel.' 28 And he was there
with the LORD forty days and forty nights;
he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.
And he wrote upon the tables the words of
the covenant, the ten words. 29 And it
came to pass, when Moses came down from
mount Sinai with the two tables of the
testimony in Moses' hand, when he came
down from the mount, that Moses knew not
that the skin of his face sent forth beams
while He talked with him. 30 And when
Aaron and all the children of Israel saw
Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent
forth beams; and they were afraid to come
nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them;
and Aaron and all the rulers of the
congregation returned unto him; and Moses
spoke to them. 32 And afterward all the
children of Israel came nigh, and he gave
them in commandment all that the LORD had
spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And
when Moses had done speaking with them, he
put a veil on his face. 34 But when Moses
went in before the LORD that He might
speak with him, he took the veil off,
until he came out; and he came out; and
spoke unto 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 sent forth
beams; and Moses put the veil back upon
his face, until he went in to speak with
Him.
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