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1 The
LORD said to
Moses, “Chisel two stone
tablets like the
first. I will
write on the
tablets the words
that were on
the first tablets,
which you broke.
2 Be
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.
3 No
one shall come
up with you
or be seen
anywhere on the
mountain. Do not
let the flocks
or herds graze
in front of
that mountain.”
4 He chiseled
two tablets
of stone like the
first; then Moses
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.
5 The
LORD descended in
the cloud, and
stood with him
there, and
proclaimed the
LORD’s
name.
6 The
LORD passed by
before him, and
proclaimed, “The
LORD! The LORD,
a merciful and
gracious God, slow
to anger, and
abundant in loving
kindness and truth,
7 keeping loving
kindness for thousands,
forgiving iniquity
and disobedience and
sin; and who
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.”
8 Moses
hurried and bowed
his head toward
the earth, and
worshiped.
9 He said, “If
now I have
found favor in
your sight, Lord,
please let the Lord
go among us,
even though this
is a stiff-necked
people; pardon our
iniquity and our
sin, and take
us for your
inheritance.”
10 He said, “Behold, I make a
covenant: before
all your people
I will do
marvels, such as
have not been
worked in all
the earth, nor in
any nation; and
all the people
among whom you
are shall see
the work of
the LORD; for
it is an
awesome thing that
I do with
you.
11 Observe
that which I
command you today.
Behold, I will
drive out before
you the Amorite,
the Canaanite, the
Hittite, the
Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
12 Be
careful, lest you
make a covenant
with the
inhabitants of the
land where you
are going, lest it
be for a
snare among you;
13 but
you shall break
down their altars,
and dash in pieces
their pillars, and
you shall cut
down their Asherah poles;
14 for
you shall worship
no other god; for
the LORD, whose
name is Jealous,
is a jealous
God.
15 “Don’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;
16 and
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.
17 “You
shall make no cast
idols for yourselves.
18 “You
shall keep the
feast of
unleavened bread.
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 of
Egypt.
19 “All
that opens the
womb is mine;
and all your
livestock that
is male, the
firstborn of cow
and sheep.
20 You
shall redeem the
firstborn of a
donkey with a
lamb. If you
will not redeem
it, then you
shall break its
neck. You shall
redeem all the
firstborn of your
sons. No one
shall appear
before me empty.
21 “Six
days you shall
work, but on
the seventh day
you shall rest:
in plowing time
and in harvest
you shall rest.
22 “You
shall observe the
feast of weeks
with the first
fruits of wheat
harvest, and the
feast of harvest
at the year’s
end.
23 Three
times in the
year all your
males shall appear
before the Lord
GOD, the God
of Israel.
24 For
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.
25 “You
shall not offer
the blood of
my sacrifice with
leavened bread.
The sacrifice of
the feast of
the Passover shall
not be left
to the morning.
26 “You
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.”
27 The
LORD said to
Moses, “Write
these words; for
in accordance with
these words I
have made a
covenant with you
and with Israel.”
28 He
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
commandments.
29 When
Moses came down
from Mount Sinai
with the two
tablets of
the covenant in
Moses’ hand, when
he came down
from the mountain,
Moses didn’t know
that the skin
of his face
shone by reason
of his speaking
with him.
30 When Aaron
and all the
children of Israel
saw Moses, behold,
the skin of
his face shone;
and they were
afraid to come
near him.
31 Moses
called to them,
and Aaron and all
the rulers of
the congregation
returned to him;
and Moses spoke
to them.
32 Afterward
all the children
of Israel came
near, and he
gave them all
the commandments that
the LORD had
spoken with him
on Mount Sinai.
33 When
Moses was done
speaking with them,
he put a
veil on his
face.
34 But
when Moses 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
Israel that which
he was commanded.
35 The
children of Israel
saw Moses’ face,
that the skin
of Moses’ face
shone; so Moses
put the veil
on his face
again, until he
went in to
speak with him.