34:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone
like the first; and I will write upon [these] tables the words
that were in the first tables which thou didst break.
34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the
mount.
34:3 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.
34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone, like the first; and Moses
rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as
the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables
of stone.
34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him
there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
34:6 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.
34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, 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, to the third and to
the fourth [generation].
34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head towards the earth,
and worshiped.
34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O
LORD, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us (for it [is] a
stiff-necked people) and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and
take us for thy inheritance.
34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy
people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the
earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou
[art], shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible
thing that I will do with thee.
34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: Behold, I
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a
snare in the midst of thee:
34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and
cut down their groves.
34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose
name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land, and they go astray after their gods, and do sacrifice to
their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
34:16 And thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their
daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go
astray after their gods.
34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days
shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the
time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out
of from Egypt.
34:19 Every first-born [is] mine: and every firstling among thy
cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].
34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb:
and if thou shalt not redeem him, then shalt thou break his
neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And
none shall appear before me empty.
34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: in time of plowing and in harvest thou shalt rest.
34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of in-gathering at
the year's end.
34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear
before the LORD GOD, the God of Israel.
34:24 For I will drive out the nations before thee, and enlarge
thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou
shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God, thrice in the
year.
34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leaven, neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left until the morning.
34:26 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring
to the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid
in his mother's milk.
34:27 And the LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee, and with Israel.
34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty
nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water: and he wrote upon
the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
34:29 And it came to pass when Moses came down from mount Sinai
(with the two tables of testimony in Moses's hand, when he came
down from the mount) that Moses knew not that the skin of his
face shone, while he talked with him.
34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to
come nigh him.
34:31 And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of
the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.
34:32 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.
34:33 And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a
vail on his face.
34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him,
he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out and
spoke to the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.
34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the
skin of Moses's face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his
face again, until he went in to speak with him.
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