Exodus 34
Moses Makes New Tablets
The Lord said to Moses, a“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, band I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, cwhich you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me aon the top of the mountain. 3 No aone shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” 4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5 The Lord adescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and bproclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, a“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and bgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast clove and faithfulness, 7 akeeping steadfast love for thousands, bforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but cwho will by no means clear the guilty, dvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly abowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please alet the Lord go in the midst of us, for bit is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for cyour inheritance.”
The Covenant Renewed
10 And he said, “Behold, aI am making a covenant. Before all your people bI will do marvels, such as have not been created 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 cawesome thing that I will do with you.
11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, aI will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 aTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a bsnare in your midst. 13 You shall atear down their altars and bbreak their pillars and cut down their cAsherim 14 (for ayou shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 alest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they bwhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and cyou are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of atheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters bwhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
17 a“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
18 a“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in bthe month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 aAll that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 20 The afirstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And bnone shall appear before me empty-handed.
21 a“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 aYou shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. 23 aThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will acast out nations before you and benlarge your borders; cno one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25 a“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, bor let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. 26 aThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. bYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words aI have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 aSo he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he bwrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
The Shining Face of Moses
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with athe two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face bshone because he had been talking with God. 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face ashone, 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 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he acommanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a aveil over his face.
34 Whenever Moses awent in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was ashining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway,
a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.