EXODUS 34

Then Yehowah said to Moses, Hew two tablets of stone like the first ones; and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you smashed. 2 And be ready by the morning; and in the morning, climb Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. 3 And no one shall come up with you; and let no one he seen on all the mountain, and let no flock or herd feed before that mountain. 4 So he hewed two tablets of stone like the first ones; and Moses got up early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai, as Yehowah had commanded him and took the two tablets of stone in his hands. 5 Then Yehowah descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yehowah. 6 And Yehowah passed before him, and proclaimed, Yehowah, Yehowah, God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy and truth; 7 keeping mercy for thousands, removing iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means acquitting the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons and on the sons' sons, to the third and fourth generations. 8 And Moses hastened and bowed his head to the earth, and worshipped. 9 And he said, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, O Lord, please then let my Lord go in our midst although they are a stiffnecked people; but pardon our iniquity and our sin, and make us thine inheritance.

10 And he said, See, I make a covenant: I will do wonders before all your people, such as have not been wrought on all the earth nor among all the nations. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yehowah, for what I will do with you is to be regarded with awe.

11 Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out from before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 Take good care not to make any covenant with the inhabitants of the hand where you are going, or else it will be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, you shall break down their pillars, and you shall cut down their asherim* 14(for you shall not bow down to any other god, for Yehowah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God). 15 For if you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, then, when they commit adultery with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone will call you, and you will eat of his sacrifices; 16 and if you take his daughters for your sons, then, when his daughters commit adultery with their gods, they will persuade your sons to commit adultery with their gods. * That is sacred poles

17 You shall not make for yourselves any gods of cast metal.

18 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. 19 All that opens the womb is mine, even all your male cattle, the firstborn of cows or sheep. 20 And you shall redeem the firstborn of an ass with a lamb; but if you will not redeem it, you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. And my face shall not be seen by the empty-handed.

21 You shall work for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in ploughing time and at harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks, with the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year. 23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord, Yehowah the God of Israel. 24 For I will drive out the nations from before you, and enlarge your country; and no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before Yehowah your God three times in the year.

25 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened; and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not remain overnight till the morning. 26 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yehowah your God.

You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk.

27 And Yehowah said to Moses, Write these words; for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel according to the tenor of these words. 28 And he was there with Yehowah for forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he spoke with God. 30 And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and the skin of his face was shining, they were afraid to go near him. 31 But Moses called out to them, and Aaron and all the princes of the congregation turned back to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32 And afterwards all the sons of Israel came near, and he gave them as a commandment all that Yehowah had told him on Mount Sinai. 33 Then when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face; 34 but whenever Moses went in before Yehowah to speak with him he took off the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he told the sons of Israel what he was commanded; 35 and the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of his face shone; so Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.