Old Testament · Exodus

Exodus 34

New Stone Tablets

(Deuteronomy 10:1–11)

1And the LORD said to Moses, "Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the first tablets, which you broke. 2And be ready by the morning, and you shall come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and you shall present yourself to me there upon the top of the mount. 3And no man^a shall come up with you, and also let no man be seen in all the mount; also the flock and the herd shall not graze in front of that mount."

4And he hewed two tablets of stone like the first ones, and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded^b him, and he took in his hand two tablets of stone.

5And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed in the name of the LORD. 6And the LORD passed by before his face, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, God, merciful and gracious, long of nostrils, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

7keeping lovingkindness for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, and clearing he will not clear, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons and upon sons of sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generations."

8And Moses hastened, and bowed toward the earth, and worshipped. 9And he said, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord^c, let my Lord, I pray, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."

The LORD Renews the Covenant

(2 Corinthians 3:7–18)

10And he said, "Behold, I am cutting a covenant^d: before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been created in all the earth and in all the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is awesome which I am doing with you.

11Observe for yourself that which I am commanding you this day. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12Take heed to yourself, lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitant of the land which you are coming upon, lest it be for a snare in your midst. 13But you shall break down their altars, and you shall shatter their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim. 14For you shall not bow down to another god; for the LORD, Jealous is his name, is a jealous God.

15Lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you, and you eat of his sacrifice; 16and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

17Molten gods you shall not make for yourself.

18The feast^e of unleavened bread you shall keep; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time (mo-ed) of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

19Every opener of the womb is mine, and all your livestock, the male shall be set apart, the firstling of ox and sheep. 20And the firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a sheep; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And they shall not appear before my face empty.

21Six days you shall work^f, and on the seventh day you shall shabbat; in plowing and in harvest you shall shabbat.

22And the feast of weeks you shall make for yourself, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. 23Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the face of the Lord^g the LORD, the God of Israel. 24For I will dispossess nations before you, and I will enlarge your border; and no man shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the face of the LORD your God three times in the year.

25You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice^h upon leavened bread; and the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning. 📊 Chart

26The first of the firstfruits of your groundⁱ you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

27And the LORD said to Moses, "Write for yourself these words; for upon the mouth of these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel."

28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink. And he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

29And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, and the two tablets of the testimony^j were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mount, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he spoke with him. 30And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to draw near to him.

31And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the princes in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32And afterward all the sons of Israel drew near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

33And Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a veil upon his face. 34And when Moses went in before the face of the LORD to speak with him, he removed the veil ad(עד) he came out; and he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded. 35And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses put back the veil upon his face, ad(עד) he went in to speak with him.