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Chapter 34 |
| 1 | And the LORD
said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will
write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou
brakest. |
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| And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning
unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the
mount. |
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And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be
seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before
that mount. |
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| And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and
Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD
had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. |
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And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed
the name of the LORD. |
| 6 | And the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth, |
| 7 | Keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear
the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon
the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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| 8 | And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshipped. |
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| And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O
LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people;
and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
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| 10 | And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and
all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a
terrible thing that I will do with thee. |
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11 | Observe thou that which I
command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. |
| 12
| Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst
of thee: |
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| But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images,
and cut down their groves: |
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14 | For thou shalt worship no other god:
for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: |
| 15 | Lest thou
make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after
their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat
of his sacrifice; |
| 16 | And 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. |
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17 | Thou shalt make thee no molten
gods. |
| 18 |
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib:
for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. |
| 19 | All that
openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or
sheep, that is male. |
| 20 | But the firstling of an ass thou shalt
redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.
All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before
me empty. |
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| Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. |
| 22 | And thou
shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the
feast of ingathering at the year's end. |
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23 | Thrice in the year shall
all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. |
| 24 |
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither
shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD
thy God thrice in the year. |
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25 | Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover
be left unto the morning. |
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26 | The first of the firstfruits of thy
land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe
a kid in his mother's milk. |
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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. |
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28 | And he was there with the LORD forty
days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote
upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. |
| 29 |
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables
of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist
not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. |
| 30 | And
when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. |
| 31 | And Moses
called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned
unto him: and Moses talked with them. |
| 32 | And afterward all the
children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD
had spoken with him in mount Sinai. |
| 33 | And till Moses had done
speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. |
| 34 | But when
Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he
came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he
was commanded. |
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35 | And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses,
that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again,
until he went in to speak with him. |
