Exodus 34

1 And YHWH said to Moses, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets which you have broken. 2 And be prepared at morning, and you come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and stand before Me there, on the top of the mountain, 3 and no man comes up with you, and also no man will be seen in all the mountain, also the flock and the herd do not feed toward the front of that mountain.” 4 And he hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and Moses rose early in the morning, and goes up to Mount Sinai as YHWH commanded him, and took the two tablets of stone in his hands. 5 And YHWH came down in a cloud, and stationed Himself with him there, and called in the name of YHWH, 6 and YHWH passed over before his face, and called: “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons and on sons’ sons, on a third and on a fourth generation.” 8 And Moses hurried, and bowed to the earth, and payed respect, 9 and said, “Now if I have found grace in Your eyes, O my Lord, please let my Lord go in our middle (for it is a stiff-necked people), and you have forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and have inherited us.” 10 And He said, Look, I am making a covenant. I do wonders before all your people, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation, and all the people in whose middle you are in have seen the work of YHWH, for it is fearful—that which I am doing with you. 11 Observe for yourself that which I am commanding you today. Look, I am throwing out from before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your middle. 13 For you must break down their altars, and you must shatter their standing pillars, and you must cut down its Asherim. 14 For you do not bow yourselves to another god—for YHWH, whose name is Zealous, is a zealous God. 15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and one has called to you, and you have eaten of his sacrifice, 16 and you have taken of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters have gone whoring after their gods, and have caused your sons to go whoring after their gods. 17 You do not make a molten god for yourself. 18 You keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things. For seven days you eat unleavened things, as I have commanded you, at an appointed time, in the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 All opening a womb are Mine, and every firstling of your livestock born a male, whether ox or sheep. 20 And you ransom the firstling of a donkey with a lamb. And if you do not ransom, then you behead it. You ransom every firstborn of your sons, and they do not appear before Me empty. 21 For six days you work, and on the seventh day you rest. In plowing-time and in harvest you rest. 22 And you observe the Celebration of Weeks for yourself, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest. And the Celebration of Ingathering at the revolution of the year. 23 Three times in a year all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel. 24 For I dispossess nations from before you, and enlarge your borders, and no man will desire your land in your going up to appear before your God YHWH three times in a year. 25 You do not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with a fermented thing. And the sacrifice of the Celebration of the Passover will not remain until morning. 26 You bring the first of the first-fruits of the land into the house of your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.” 27 And YHWH said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel according to the tenor of these words.” 28 And he was there with YHWH 40 days and 40 nights. He had not eaten bread, and he had not drunk water. And he wrote on the tablets the matters of the covenant—the Ten Commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in the hands of Moses in his coming down from the mountain), that Moses had not known that the skin of his face shone in His speaking with him, 30 and Aaron saw—all the sons of Israel also—Moses, and look, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him. 31 And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the princes in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32 And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he charged them with all that YHWH had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And Moses finished speaking with them, and put a veil on his face. 34 And in the going in of Moses before YHWH to speak with Him, he turned aside the veil until his coming out. And he came out and had spoken to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the sons of Israel had seen the face of Moses, that the skin of the face of Moses shone, and Moses put back the veil on his face until his going in to speak with Him.