1 Now the Loʀᴅ said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself AEx 24:12; 31:18; 32:16, 19two stone tablets like the former ones, and BDeut 10:2, 4I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered. 2  “So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to AEx 19:11, 18, 20Mount Sinai, and 1Or place yourself beforepresent yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. 3  “AEx 19:12, 13No man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen 1Lit on allanywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain.” 4 So he cut out AEx 34:1two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Loʀᴅ had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand. 5 AEx 19:9; 33:9The Loʀᴅ descended in the cloud and stood there with him as 1Or he called out with the name of the Loʀᴅhe called upon the name of the Loʀᴅ. 6 Then the Loʀᴅ passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Loʀᴅ, the Loʀᴅ God, ANum 14:18; Deut 4:31; Neh 9:17; Ps 86:15; 103:8; 108:4; 145:8; Joel 2:13; Rom 2:4compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and 1Or faithfulnesstruth; 7 who AEx 20:5, 6; Deut 5:10; 7:9; Ps 103:3; 130:3, 4; 1 John 1:9keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He BEx 23:7; Deut 7:10; Job 10:14; Nah 1:3will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, CDeut 5:9visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8 Moses made haste 1Lit and bowed...worshipedAEx 4:31to bow low toward the earth and worship. 9 He said, “AEx 33:13If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though 1Lit it is a people stiff-neckedBEx 32:9the people are so obstinate, and CEx 34:7pardon our iniquity and our sin, and DDeut 4:20; 9:26, 29; 32:9; Ps 33:12take us as Your own 2Or inheritancepossession.”

10 Then 1Lit HeGod said, “Behold, AEx 34:27, 28; Deut 5:2I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people BDeut 4:32; Ps 72:18; 136:4I will perform miracles which have not been 2Lit createdproduced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people 3Lit in whose midst you areamong whom you live will see the working of the Loʀᴅ, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

11 “1Lit Observe for yourselfBe sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, AEx 33:2I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12  “AEx 23:32, 33Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13  “AEx 23:24; Deut 12:3But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their 1I.e. wooden symbols of a female deityBDeut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3fAsherim 14 —for AEx 20:3, 5; Deut 4:24you shall not worship any other god, for the Loʀᴅ, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— 15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and AEx 22:20; 32:8sacrifice to their gods, and someone BNum 25:1, 2; Deut 32:37, 38might invite you 1Lit and you eatto eat of his sacrifice, 16 and ADeut 7:3; Josh 23:12, 13; 1 Kin 11:1-4you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. 17  “AEx 20:4, 23; Lev 19:4; Deut 5:8You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

18 “You shall observe AEx 12:17; Lev 23:6; Num 28:16fthe Feast of Unleavened Bread. For BEx 12:15, 16seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, 1Or whichas I commanded you, at the appointed time in the CEx 12:2; 13:4month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

19 “AEx 13:2; 22:29fThe first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from 1Or oxencattle and sheep. 20  “AEx 13:13You shall redeem with a lamb the 1Lit first opening offirst offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem BEx 13:15; Num 3:45all the firstborn of your sons. 2Lit They shall notCEx 22:29; 23:15; Deut 16:16None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

21 “You shall work AEx 20:9f; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13fsix days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22  “You shall celebrate AEx 23:16; Num 28:26the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23  “AEx 23:14-17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered LoʀᴅGoᴅ, the God of Israel. 24  “For I will 1Or dispossessAEx 33:2; Ps 78:55drive out 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 the Loʀᴅ your God.

25 “AEx 23:18You shall not 1Lit slaughteroffer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, BEx 12:10nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to 2Lit remain overnightbe left over until morning.

26 “You shall bring AEx 23:19; Deut 26:2the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Loʀᴅ your God.

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You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the Loʀᴅ said to Moses, “AEx 17:14; 24:4Write 1Lit for yourselfdown these words, for in accordance with these words I have made BEx 34:10a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there with the Loʀᴅ AEx 24:18forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And 1Or He, i.e. The LoʀᴅBEx 31:18; 34:1he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, CDeut 4:13; 10:4the Ten 2Lit WordsCommandments.

29 It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the AEx 32:15two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that BMatt 17:2; 2 Cor 3:7the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and A2 Cor 3:7they 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 Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the Loʀᴅ had spoken 1Lit withto him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, A2 Cor 3:13he put a veil over his face. 34 But whenever Moses went in before the Loʀᴅ to speak with Him, A2 Cor 3:16he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, 35 A2 Cor 3:13the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.