Exodus Chapter 34

Exodus Chapter 34
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew
thee two tables of stone, like unto the
first, and I will write upon the tables the
words that were in the first tables, which
thou breakest in pieces.
2 And be ready in the morning, that thou
mayest come up early unto the mount of
Sinai, and wait there for me in the top of
the mount.
3 But let no man come up with thee,
neither let any man be seen throughout
all the mount, neither let the sheep nor
cattle feed before this mount. 4 Then
Moses hewed two tables of stone like
unto the first, and rose up early in the
morning, and went up unto the mount of
Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him,
and took in his hand 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 So the Lord passed before his face,
and cried, The Lord, the Lord, strong,
merciful, and gracious, slow to anger,
and abundant in goodness and truth, 7
Reserving mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity, and transgression and
sin, and not making the wicked innocent,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, and upon children’s
children, unto the third and fourth
generation.
8 Then Moses made haste and bowed
himself to the earth, and worshiped, 9
And said, O Lord, I pray thee, If I have
found grace in thy sight, that the Lord
would now go with us ( for it is a stiffnecked
people) and pardon our iniquity
and our sin, and take us for thine
inheritance.
10 And he answered, Behold, I will
make a covenant before all thy people,
and will do marvels, such as have not
been done in all the world, neither in all
nations: and all the people among whom
thou art, shall see the work of the Lord:
for it is a terrible thing that I will do
with thee. 11 Keep diligently that which
I command thee this day: Behold, I will
cast out before thee the Amorites, and
the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
12 Take heed to thyself, that thou make
no compact with the inhabitants of the
land whither thou goest, lest they be the
cause of ruin among you: 13 But ye shall
overthrow their altars, and break their
images in pieces, and cut down their
groves,
14 (For thou shalt bow down to none
other god, because the Lord, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God)
15 Lest thou make a compact with the
inhabitants of the land, and when they go
a whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, some man call
thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice:
16 And lest 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 gods of metal.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt
thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded thee,
in the time of the month of Abib: for in
the month of Abib thou camest out of
Egypt.
19 Every male, that first openeth the
womb, shall be mine: also all the
firstborn of thy flock shall be reckoned
mine, both of beeves and sheep. 20 But
the first of the ass thou shalt buy out with
a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then
thou shalt break his neck: all the
firstborn of thy sons shalt thou redeem,
and none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, and in the
seventh day thou shalt rest: both in
earing time, and in the harvest thou shalt
rest.
22 Thou shalt also observe the feast of
weeks in the time of the first fruits of
wheat harvest, and the feast of gathering
fruits in the end of the year. 23 Thrice in
a year shall all your men-children
appear before the Lord Jehovah God of
Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before
thee, and enlarge thy coasts, so that no
man shall desire thy land, when thou
shalt come 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 ought
of the sacrifice of the feast of Passover
be left unto the morning. 26 The first
ripe fruits of thy land thou shalt bring
unto the house of the Lord thy God: yet
shalt thou 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 So he was there with the Lord
forty days and forty nights, and did
neither eat bread nor drink water: and he
wrote in the tables the words of the
covenant, even the Ten Commandments.
29 So when Moses came down from
mount Sinai, the two tables of the
testimony were in Moses’ hand, as he
descended from the mount: (now Moses
wist not that the skin of his face shone
bright, after that God had talked with
him.
30 And Aaron and all the children of
Israel looked upon Moses, and behold,
the skin of his face shone bright, and they
were afraid to come near him) 31 But
Moses called them: and Aaron and all
the chief of the congregation returned
unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of
Israel came near, and he charged them
with all that the Lord had said unto him
in mount Sinai.
33 So Moses made an end of communing
with them, and had put a covering upon
his face.
34 But, when Moses came before the
Lord to speak with him, he took off the
covering until he came out: then 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, how the skin of Moses’
face shone bright: therefore Moses put
the covering upon his face, until he went
to speak with God.