Exodus 34 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Two Tablets Replaced

(Deu 10:1–5 )

Exo 34:1The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.

Exo 34:2

Exo 34:2Be 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.

Exo 34:3

Exo 34:3No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain."

Exo 34:4

Exo 34:4So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

Exo 34:5

Exo 34:5And the 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 before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Exo 34:7

Exo 34:7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

Exo 34:8

Exo 34:8And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

Exo 34:9

Exo 34:9And he said, "If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance."

The Covenant Renewed

(Exo 23:14–19; Deu 7:1–6; 16:1–17 )

Exo 34:10

Exo 34:10And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.

Exo 34:11

Exo 34:11"Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

Exo 34:12

Exo 34:12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

Exo 34:13

Exo 34:13You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Ashe'rim

Exo 34:14

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

Exo 34:15

Exo 34:15lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,

Exo 34:16

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

Exo 34:17

Exo 34:17"You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

Exo 34:18

Exo 34:18"The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. 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 from Egypt.

Exo 34:19

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

Exo 34:20

Exo 34:20The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

Exo 34:21

Exo 34:21"Six 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 34:22And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

Exo 34:23

Exo 34:23Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

Exo 34:24

Exo 34:24For I will cast 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 leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning.

Exo 34:26

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

Exo 34:27

Exo 34:27And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Exo 34:28

Exo 34:28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Moses' Face Shines

Exo 34:29

Exo 34:29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Exo 34:30

Exo 34:30And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

Exo 34:31

Exo 34:31But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

Exo 34:32

Exo 34:32And afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

Exo 34:33

Exo 34:33And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face;

Exo 34:34

Exo 34:34but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

Exo 34:35

Exo 34:35the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses would put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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