| 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. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
|
5 | 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. |
| 8 | And Moses
made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 13 | But ye shall
destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 21 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
