Exodus 34 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Two Tablets Replaced

(Deu 10:1–5 )

Exo 34:1The LORD said to Moshe, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exo 34:2

Exo 34:2Be 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.

Exo 34:3

Exo 34:3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

Exo 34:4

Exo 34:4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

Exo 34:5

Exo 34:5The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

Exo 34:6

Exo 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD! the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

Exo 34:7

Exo 34:7keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that 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."

Exo 34:8

Exo 34:8Moshe hurried and bowed his head toward the eretz, and worshiped.

Exo 34:9

Exo 34:9He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

The Covenant Renewed

(Exo 23:14–19; Deu 7:1–6; 16:1–17 )

Exo 34:10

Exo 34:10He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the eretz, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

Exo 34:11

Exo 34:11Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Hittite, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi.

Exo 34:12

Exo 34:12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:

Exo 34:13

Exo 34:13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

Exo 34:14

Exo 34:14for you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Exo 34:15

Exo 34:15Don'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;

Exo 34:16

Exo 34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

Exo 34:17

Exo 34:17You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

Exo 34:18

Exo 34:18"You shall keep the feast of matzah. Seven days you shall eat matzah, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Aviv; for in the month Aviv you came out from Mitzrayim.

Exo 34:19

Exo 34:19All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

Exo 34:20

Exo 34:20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

Exo 34:21

Exo 34:21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Exo 34:22

Exo 34:22You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the Hag-HaKatzir at the year's end.

Exo 34:23

Exo 34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Yisra'el.

Exo 34:24

Exo 34:24For 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 the LORD, your God, three times in the year.

Exo 34:25

Exo 34:25"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Pesach be left to the morning.

Exo 34:26

Exo 34:26You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

Exo 34:27

Exo 34:27The LORD said to Moshe, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Yisra'el."

Exo 34:28

Exo 34:28He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten mitzvot.

Moses' Face Shines

Exo 34:29

Exo 34:29It happened, when Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moshe's hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moshe didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

Exo 34:30

Exo 34:30When Aharon and all the children of Yisra'el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

Exo 34:31

Exo 34:31Moshe called to them, and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moshe spoke to them.

Exo 34:32

Exo 34:32Afterward all the children of Yisra'el came near, and he gave them all of the mitzvot that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

Exo 34:33

Exo 34:33When Moshe was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

Exo 34:34

Exo 34:34But when Moshe went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Yisra'el that which he was commanded.

Exo 34:35

Exo 34:35The children of Yisra'el saw Moshe's face, that the skin of Moshe's face shone: and Moshe put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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