Exodus 34

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1. 1The LORD told Moses, "Chisel out 2 stone tablets just like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were on the tablets you broke."
2. 2"Be ready by morning. Come up Mount Sinai and stand before me at the top of the mountain."
3. 3"No one is allowed to come with you. No one should even be seen anywhere on the mountain. Don't let any flocks or herds graze near it."
4. 4So Moses chiseled out 2 stone tablets just like the originals. He got up early the next morning and climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded, carrying the 2 stone tablets in his hands.
5. 5The LORD came down in the cloud, stood there with him, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6. 6The LORD passed in front of Moses and declared: "The LORD! The LORD God — merciful and gracious, slow to anger, overflowing with goodness and truth,
7. 7"Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the children's children, to the 3rd and to the 4th generation."
8. 8Moses immediately bowed low to the ground and worshiped.
9. 9He said, "If I have now found grace in your sight, O LORD, please let my LORD go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
10. 10He said, "Look, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation, and all the people among whom you are will see the work of the LORD, for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you."
11. 11Obey everything I command you today. I am going to drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites ahead of you.
12. 12Be very careful not to make any treaty with the people living in the land you're entering, or they will become a trap for you.
13. 13But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.
14. 14You must never worship any other god, because the LORD — whose very name is Jealous — is a jealous God.
15. 15"Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants 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."
16. 16"And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods."
17. 17You must never make cast metal idols for yourselves.
18. 18Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For 7 days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib — because that's the month you came out of Egypt.
19. 19Every firstborn belongs to me — including every firstborn male from your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
20. 20You may buy back a firstborn donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you don't buy it back, you must break its neck. You must also buy back every firstborn son. No one is to come before me empty-handed.
21. 21Work for 6 days, but on the 7th day you must rest — even during plowing season and harvest.
22. 22Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the first fruits of your wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year.
23. 23Three times a year, all your males shall appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
24. 24I will drive out nations ahead of you and expand your territory. No one will even try to take your land during those times when you go to appear before the LORD your God 3 times a year.
25. 25Don't offer the blood of my sacrifice alongside anything made with yeast. Nothing from the Passover sacrifice should be left over until morning.
26. 26Bring the very best of the first fruits from your land to the house of the LORD your God. Never boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
27. 27Then the LORD told Moses, "Write down these words, because this covenant I've made with you and with Israel is based on exactly these terms."
28. 28Moses stayed there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights without eating any food or drinking any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the 10 commandments.
29. 29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in his hand, he didn't realize that the skin of his face was shining because he had been speaking with God.
30. 30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiating light, and they were afraid to go near him.
31. 31But Moses called out to them. Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke with them.
32. 32After that, all the Israelites came closer, and Moses gave them every command the LORD had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.
33. 33And until Moses had finished speaking with them, he kept a veil on his face.
34. 34Whenever Moses went into the LORD's presence to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came back out. Then he would tell the Israelites everything he had been commanded.
35. 35The Israelites could see that Moses' face was glowing. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until the next time he went in to speak with the LORD.