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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 34
1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two
stone tablets like the first. I will write on
the tablets the words that were on the first
tablets, which you broke.
2 Be ready by the morning, and come
up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and
present yourself there to me on the top of
the mountain.
3 No one shall come up with you or be
seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not
let the flocks or herds graze in front of that
mountain.”
4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like
the first; then Moses rose up early in the
morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as
Yahweh had commanded him, and took in
his hand two stone tablets.
5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and
stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful
and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
7 keeping loving kindness for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience and
sin; and who will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 He said, “If now I have found favor
in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord
go among us, even though this is a stiffnecked people; pardon our iniquity and
our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant:
before all your people I will do marvels,
such as have not been worked in all the
earth, nor in any nation; and all the people
among whom you are shall see the work of
Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I
do with you.
11 Observe that which I command you
today. Behold, I will drive out before you
the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land where you
are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
13 but you shall break down their altars,
and dash in pieces their pillars, and you
shall cut down their Asherah poles;
14 for you shall worship no other god;
for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God.
15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the
prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to
their gods, and one call you and you eat of
his sacrifice;
16 andyoutake oftheirdaughters to your
sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons
play the prostitute after their gods.
17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
18 “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at
the time appointed in the month Abib; for
in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and
all your livestock thatis male, the firstborn
of cow and sheep.
20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a
donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem
it, then you shall break its neck. You shall
redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No
one shall appear before me empty.
21 “Six days you shall work, but on the
seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time
and in harvest you shall rest.
22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks
with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and
the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
23 Three times in the year all your males
shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the
God of Israel.
24 For I will drive out nations before you
and enlarge your borders; neither shall
any man desire your land when you go up
to appear before Yahweh, your God, three
times in the year.
25 “You shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be
left to the morning.
26 “You shall bring the first of the first
fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its
mother’s milk.”
27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these
words; for in accordance with these words
I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel.”
28 He was there with Yahweh forty days
and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor
drank water. He wrote on the tablets thewords of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 When Moses came down from Mount
Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant
in Moses’ hand, when he came down from
the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the
skin of his face shone by reason of his
speaking with him.
30 When Aaron and all the children of
Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come
near him.
31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and
all the rulers of the congregation returned
to him; and Moses spoke to them.
32 Afterward all the children of Israel
came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with
him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses was done speaking with
them, he put a veil on his face.
34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off,
until he came out; and he came out, and
spoke to the children of Israel that which
he was commanded.
35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face,
thatthe skinofMoses’face shone; soMoses
put the veil on his face again, until he went
in to speak with him.
Word English Bible
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