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Exodus 34:1-35 — The New Stone Tablets

Exod.34.1-35

¹Yahweh said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.” ²Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. ³No one shall come up with you, and no one shall be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds must not graze in front of that mountain. ⁴So he cut out two stone tablets like the first ones, and Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Yahweh. ⁶Yahweh passed before him and proclaimed, “Yahweh, Yahweh, a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and truth,” ⁷“keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on children and grandchildren, to the third and fourth generation.” ⁸Moses quickly bowed to the earth and worshiped. ⁹And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked people; forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.” ¹⁰And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders such as have not been created in all the earth or among any nation. And all the people among whom you are will see the work of Yahweh, for what I am doing with you is an awesome thing.” ¹¹Keep what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ¹²Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. ¹³Instead, you shall tear down their altars, shatter their pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles. ¹⁴For you shall not bow down to another god, because Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. ¹⁵Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they prostitute themselves after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you and you eat from his sacrifice. ¹⁶And you take some of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods and make your sons prostitute themselves after their gods. ¹⁷You shall not make cast-metal gods for yourselves. ¹⁸You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib , for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt. ¹⁹Every first offspring of the womb is mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. ²⁰You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty-handed. ²¹Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ²²You shall observe the Festival of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ²³Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel. ²⁴For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in the year. ²⁵You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and the sacrifice of the Festival of the Passover shall not remain until morning. ²⁶You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. ²⁷And Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸And he was there with Yahweh 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 Words . ²⁹When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been speaking with him. ³⁰When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³²Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³And when Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. ³⁴But whenever Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and when he came out, he spoke to the people of Israel what he had been commanded. ³⁵And the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with him.

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4/11/2026

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