Exodus 34
34
Moses Gets New Tablets
1The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two more stone tablets like the first two. I will write the same words on them that were on the first two stones which you broke. 2Be ready tomorrow morning. Then come up on Mount Sinai. Stand before me there on the top of the mountain. 3No one may come with you. No one should even be seen any place on the mountain. Not even the sheep or cattle may eat grass near that mountain.”
4So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. Then early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai. He did this just as the Lord had commanded him. Moses carried the two stone tablets with him. 5Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with Moses. And the Lord called out his name, the Lord.
6The Lord passed in front of Moses and said, “I am the Lord. The Lord is a God who shows mercy and is kind. The Lord doesn’t become angry quickly. The Lord has great love and faithfulness. 7The Lord is kind to thousands of people. The Lord forgives people for wrong and sin and turning against him. But the Lord does not forget to punish guilty people. The Lord will punish not only the guilty people. He will also punish their children, their grandchildren, their great-grandchildren and their great-great-grandchildren.”
8Then Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped. 9Moses said, “Lord, if you are pleased with me, please go with us. I know that these are stubborn people. But forgive our evil and our sin. Take us as your own people.”
10Then the Lord said, “I am making this agreement with you. I will do miracles in front of all your people. These things have never before been done for any other nation on earth. The people with you will see my work. I, the Lord, will do wonderful things for you. 11Obey the things I command you today, and I will force your enemies to leave your land. I will force out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites ahead of you. 12Be careful. Don’t make any agreement with the people who live in the land where you are going. It will bring you trouble. 13But destroy their altars. Break their stone pillars. Cut down their Asherah idols. 14Don’t worship any other god. This is because I, the Lord, the Jealous One, am a jealous God.
15“Be careful. Don’t make any agreements with the people who live in that land. They will worship their false gods. And they will invite you to join them. Then you will join them, and you will eat their sacrifices. 16You might choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. Those daughters worship false gods. They might lead your sons to do the same thing.
17“Do not make gods of melted metal.
18“Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast as I commanded you. Do this during the month I have chosen, the month of Abib. This is because in that month you came out of Egypt.
19“Every firstborn cow or sheep that is born to each animal belongs to me. 20You may buy back a donkey by paying for it with a lamb. But if you don’t want to buy back a donkey, you must break its neck. You must buy back all your firstborn sons.
“No one is to come before me without a gift.
21“You must work for six days. But on the seventh day you must rest. You must do this even during the planting season and harvest season.
22“Celebrate the Feast of Weeks when you gather the first grain of the wheat harvest. And celebrate the Feast of Harvest in the fall.
23“Three times each year all your men must come before the Master, the Lord, the God of Israel. 24I will force out nations ahead of you. I will expand the borders of your land. You will go before the Lord your God three times each year. And at that time no one will try to take your land from you.
25“Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me with anything containing yeast. And do not leave any of the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover. It must not be left until the next morning.
26“Bring the best first crops that you harvest from your ground. Bring those things to the Tent of the Lord your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words. This is because with these words I have made an agreement with you and Israel.”
28Moses stayed there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights. During that time he did not eat food or drink water. And Moses wrote the words of the agreement—the Ten Commandments—on the stone tablets.
The Face of Moses Shines
29Then Moses came down from Mount Sinai. In his hands he was carrying the two stone tablets of the agreement. But Moses did not know that his face was shining because he had talked with the Lord. 30Aaron and all the people of Israel saw that Moses’ face was shining. So they were afraid to go near him. 31But Moses called to them. So Aaron and all the leaders of the people returned to Moses. Moses talked with them. 32After that, all the people of Israel came near him. And he gave them all the commands that the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
33When Moses finished speaking to the people, he put a covering over his face. 34Anytime Moses went before the Lord to speak with him, Moses took off the covering until he came out. Then Moses would come out and tell the people of Israel the things the Lord had commanded. 35The Israelites would see that Moses’ face was shining. So he would cover his face again. He did this until the next time he went in to speak with the Lord.
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Exodus 34
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The New Stone Tablets
1Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, # Ex 31:18; 32:16, 19 which you broke. 2Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. # Ex 19:20 3No one is to come up with you. Do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain, and the flocks or herds may not graze in front of the mountain.” # Ex 19:12–13, 21
4So he cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone. 5Then the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. # Ex 33:9, 19 6The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth, # Ne 9:17; Ps 86:15; Ro 2:4 7keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, # Job 10:14 visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” # Ex 20:5–6
8Moses made haste and bowed to the ground and worshipped. # Ex 4:31 9He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people. # Ex 32:9 Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” # Ps 33:12
The Covenant Renewed
10Then He said: Behold, I am making a covenant before all your people. # Dt 5:2–3 I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I will do with you. # Dt 10:21 11Obey what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. # Ex 33:2 12Watch yourself so that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. # Ex 23:32–33; Dt 7:2 13But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles # Ex 23:24; 2Ki 18:4 # 34:13 Carved images of a female deity. 14(for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), # Ex 20:3–5; Dt 4:24 15lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, # Jdg 2:17 and someone invites you to eat of his sacrifice. # Nu 25:2 16And then you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods. They will make your sons prostitute themselves after their gods. # Dt 7:3–4; 1Ki 11:2–4
17You shall make no molded gods for yourselves. # Ex 32:8; Lev 19:4
18You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came out of Egypt. # Ex 13:4; Lev 23:6
19Every firstborn of the womb belongs to Me, and every firstborn male among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. # Ex 13:2; 22:29 20But you must redeem with a lamb the firstborn of a donkey, and if you fail to redeem him, then you must break his neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.
No one may appear before Me empty-handed. # Ex 23:15; Dt 16:16
21You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. # Ex 23:12; 35:2 Even at the time of plowing and harvest you must rest.
22You must observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year. # Ex 23:16 23Three times in the year all your males must appear before the Lord God, # Ex 23:14, 17 the God of Israel. 24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. # Ex 33:2; Ps 78:55 No man will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25You must not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left until the following morning. # Ex 12:10; 23:18
26The first of the firstfruits of your land you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. # Dt 26:2
You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. # Ex 23:19; Dt 14:21
27Then the Lord said to Moses: Write down these words, # Ex 17:14; 24:4 for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. # Ge 7:4; Ex 24:18; Jon 3:4; Mt 4:2 He did not eat bread or drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. # Ex 31:18
Moses’ Radiant Face
29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in the hands of Moses, when he came down from the mountain, # Ex 32:15 Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. # Mt 17:2 30So when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32Afterward all the Israelites drew near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.
33When Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil off until he came out. # 2Co 3:16 Then he came out and spoke to the Israelites what he had been commanded. 35The Israelites saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, and then Moses put the veil over his face again until he went in to speak with Him.
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