Exodus 34

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1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like the first, and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tablets which you broke;
2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mountain;
3 but no one has come up with thee, and no one should be seen throughout all the mountain; even cattle, little and big, should not graze near the mountain this.
4 And Moses the two tablets of stone like the first, and rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand two tables of stone.

5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name.
6 And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 keeping mercy for thousands [of labor], forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children unto the third and fourth generation.
8 Moses immediately fell to the ground and worshiped [God]
9 and I said, if I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, yes Lord go in our midst; for stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 Then I said [God], Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such has not been in all the earth, nor in any nation; and see all the people among whom you work of the LORD; for a terrible thing that I will do for you;
eleven save that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
12 Look, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you enter, lest it become a snare among you.
13 Destroy their altars, crush their pillars, and cut down [sacred] their groves.
14 For thou shalt worship no other god but the Lord; because that is his name - is a jealous; He is a jealous God.
15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, so that when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to 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 your sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Do not make molten gods.

18 Observe Feast of Unleavened Bread: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib, for you came out of Egypt in the month Abib.
19 All that opens the womb, I like thy cattle male that opens the womb, ox or sheep;
20 firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, but if not, then redeem it; all the firstborn of the children you shall redeem; let none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; Rest and during sowing and reaping.
22 And do the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest feast and the feast of gathering [fruit] at the end of the year;
23 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God of Israel,
24 For I will cast out the nations from before thee, and enlarge thy borders, and no desire thy land, when you shall appear before the Lord your God three times a year.
25 Do not pour out the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the feast of Easter should not stay overnight until the morning.
26 The first of the fruits of thy land, bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he was there [Moses] 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 When Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he [God] has spoken to him.
thirty And Moses saw that Aaron and all the children of Israel, and, behold, his face shining, and they were afraid to approach him.
31 And Moses called to them, and they came to him Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation, and Moses talked with them.
32 After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord spoke to him on Mount Sinai.
33 And when Moses had 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 spake unto the children of Israel went out all that was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw that the shining face of Moses, and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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