Bible: Ex 34

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The New Tablets of the Covenant

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The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out 2  two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write 3  on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed. 34:2 Be prepared 4  in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself 5  for me there on the top of the mountain. 34:3 No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.” 34:4 So Moses 6  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; 7  early in the morning he went up 8  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

34:5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name. 9  34:6 The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: 10  “The Lord, the Lord, 11  the compassionate and gracious 12  God, slow to anger, 13  and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 14  34:7 keeping loyal love for thousands, 15  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression 16  of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”

34:8 Moses quickly bowed 17  to the ground and worshiped 34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord 18  go among us, for we 19  are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

34:10 He said, “See, I am going to make 20  a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done 21  in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you. 22 

34:11 “Obey 23  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out 24  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 34:12 Be careful not to make 25  a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare 26  among you. 34:13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. 27  34:14 For you must not worship 28  any other god, 29  for the Lord, whose name 30  is Jealous, is a jealous God. 34:15 Be careful 31  not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when 32  they prostitute themselves 33  to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, 34  you will eat from his sacrifice; 34:16 and you then take 35  his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well. 34:17 You must not make yourselves molten gods.

34:18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days 36  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this 37  at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

34:19 “Every firstborn of the womb 38  belongs to me, even every firstborn 39  of your cattle that is a male, 40  whether ox or sheep. 34:20 Now the firstling 41  of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. 42  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed. 43 

34:21 “On six days 44  you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; 45  even at the time of plowing and of harvest 46  you are to rest. 47 

34:22 “You must observe 48  the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end 49  of the year. 34:23 At three times 50  in the year all your men 51  must appear before the Lord God, 52  the God of Israel. 34:24 For I will drive out 53  the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet 54  your land when you go up 55  to appear before the Lord your God three times 56  in the year.

34:25 “You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning. 57 

34:26 “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God.

You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” 58 

34:27 The Lord said to Moses, “Write down 59  these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; 60  he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 61 

34:29

The Radiant Face of Moses

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Now when Moses came down 63  from Mount Sinai with 64  the two tablets of the testimony in his hand 65  – when he came down 66  from the mountain, Moses 67  did not know that the skin of his face shone 68  while he talked with him. 34:30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; 69  and they were afraid to approach him. 34:31 But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them. 34:32 After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. 34:33 When Moses finished 70  speaking 71  with them, he would 72  put a veil on his face. 34:34 But when Moses went in 73  before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. 74  Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded. 75  34:35 When the Israelites would see 76  the face of Moses, that 77  the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord. 78 
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