“1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like
unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were
in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready in the morning,
and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there
to me in the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee,
neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the
flocks nor herds feed before that mount. 4 And he hewed two tables of
stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and
went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his
hand the two tables of stone.”
“5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him,
and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will
by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and
to the fourth [generation]. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head
toward the earth, and worshipped. 9 And he said, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for
it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and
take us for thine inheritance.”
“10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I
will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any
nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of
the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out
before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to thyself,
lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou
goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13 But ye shall
destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is]
Jealous, [is] a jealous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice; 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring
after their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
“18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the
month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 19 All
that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy cattle,
[whether] ox or sheep, [that is male]. 20 But the firstling of an ass
thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt
thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem.
And none shall appear before me empty. 21 Six days thou shalt work, but
on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou
shalt rest. 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s
end. 23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the
Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out the nations before
thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land,
when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
year. 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto
the morning. 26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt
bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother’s milk. 27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these
words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel.”
“28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did
neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the
words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 And it came to pass,
when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony
in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not
that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when
Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called
unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned
unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the children
of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD
had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And [till] Moses had done
speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. 34 But when Moses went in
before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came
out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which
he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses,
that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face
again, until he went in to speak with him.” (Ex 34:1-35 AV)
© 2011-2018 Kathy L. McFarland. All Rights Reserved Privacy Policy