Exodus:34

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* And the LORD said to Moses , "Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones , and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke . * So be 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 . * And no man shall come up with you , and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain ; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain ." * So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones . Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai , as the LORD had commanded him ; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone . * Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there , and proclaimed the name of the LORD . * And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed , "The LORD , the LORD God , merciful and gracious , longsuffering , and abounding in goodness and truth , * keeping mercy for thousands , forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin , by no means clearing the guilty , visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children 's children to the third and the fourth generation ." * So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth , and worshiped . * Then he said , "If now I have found grace in Your sight , O Lord , let my Lord , I pray , go among us , even though we are a stiff-necked people ; and pardon our iniquity and our sin , and take us as Your inheritance ." * And He said : "Behold , I make a covenant . Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth , nor in any nation ; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD . For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you . * Observe what I command you this day . Behold , I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite . * Take heed to yourself , lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going , lest it be a snare in your midst . * But you shall destroy their altars , break their sacred pillars , and cut down their wooden images * (for you shall worship no other god , for the LORD , whose name is Jealous , is a jealous God ), * lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land , and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods , and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice , * and you take of his daughters for your sons , and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods . * "You shall make no molded gods for yourselves . * "The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep . Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread , as I commanded you , in the appointed time of the month of Abib ; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt . * "All that open the womb are Mine , and every male firstborn among your livestock , whether ox or sheep . * But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb . And if you will not redeem him , then you shall break his neck . All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem . "And none shall appear before Me empty-handed . * "Six days you shall work , but on the seventh day you shall rest ; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest . * "And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks , of the firstfruits of wheat harvest , and the Feast of Ingathering at the year 's end . * "Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord , the LORD God of Israel . * For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders ; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year . * "You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven , nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning . * "The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God . You shall not boil a young goat in its mother 's milk ." * Then the LORD said to Moses , "Write these words , for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel ." * So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights ; he neither ate bread nor drank water . And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant , the Ten Commandments . * Now it was so , when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses ' hand when he came down from the mountain ), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him . * So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses , behold , the skin of his face shone , and they were afraid to come near him . * Then Moses called to them , and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him ; and Moses talked with them . * Afterward all the children of Israel came near , and he gave them as commandments all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai . * And when Moses had finished speaking with them , he put a veil on his face . * But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him , he would take the veil off until he came out ; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded . * And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses , that the skin of Moses ' face shone , then Moses would put the veil on his face again , until he went in to speak with Him .

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