Exodus - 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, longsuffering, 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.

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.

23 - Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren 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.

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 - .

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.