Exodus 34 - LSB Bible Online

Exodus 34

Stone Tablets like the Former Ones

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Carve out for yourself ^atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and ^bI will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered. 2 So be prepared by morning, and come up in the morning to ^aMount Sinai, and ¹present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. 3 ^aAnd no man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen ¹anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain.” 4 So he carved out ^atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand. 5 ^aThen Yahweh descended in the cloud and stood there with him, and ¹He called upon the name of Yahweh. 6 Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, ^acompassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and ¹truth; 7 who ^akeeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He ^bwill by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^cvisiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8 And Moses made haste ¹^ato bow low toward the earth and worship. 9 And he said, “^aIf now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though ¹^bthey are a stiff-necked people, and ^cpardon our iniquity and our sin, and ^dtake us as Your own inheritance.”

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Israel

10 Then ¹God said, “Behold, ^aI am going to cut a covenant. Before all your people ^bI will do wondrous deeds which have not been created in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ²among whom you live will see the working of Yahweh, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to do with you.
11 “¹Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^aI am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 ^aBeware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. 13 ^aBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ¹^bAsherim 14 —for ^ayou shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— 15 lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^asacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^binvite you ¹to eat of his sacrifice, 16 and ^ayou take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. 17 ^aYou shall make for yourself no molten gods.
18 “You shall keep ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^bseven days you shall eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^cmonth of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 “^aThe first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, even of all your male livestock, the first offspring from ¹cattle and sheep. 20 ^aAnd you shall redeem with a lamb the ¹first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^ball the firstborn of your sons. ²^cNone shall appear before Me empty-handed.
21 “You shall work ^asix days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall celebrate ^athe Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 ^aThree times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. 24 For I will ^adispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before Yahweh your God.
25 “^aYou shall not ¹offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^band the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not ²be left over until morning.
26 “You shall bring ^athe very first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “^aWrite ¹down these words, for in accordance with these words I have cut ^ba covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there with Yahweh ^aforty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ¹^bhe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^cthe Ten ²Commandments.

The Shining Face of Moses

29 Now it happened when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the ^atwo tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that ^bthe skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. 30 Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and ^athey were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. 32 And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them everything that Yahweh had spoken ¹to him on Mount Sinai. 33 Then Moses finished speaking with them and ^aput a veil over his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with Him, ^ahe would take off the veil until he came out; and then he would come out and speak to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, 35 ^aand the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would return the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

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