Exodus 34

¹ Yahweh said to Moses: "Carve for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words which came to be on the first tablets which you broke. ² Be ready tomorrow morning, and you will ascend in the morning to Mount Sinai and station yourself for Me there on the summit of the mountain. ³ No man shall ascend with you; indeed, let no man be seen in all the mountain. Moreover, the flock and the herd must not be grazing toward that mountain." ⁴ So he carved two stone tablets like the first ones. And Moses rose early in the morning and ascended to Mount Sinai, just as Yahweh had instructed him and took in his hands the two stone tablets. ⁵ Then Yahweh descended in a cloud and stationed Himself with him there; and he called the name of Yahweh. ⁶ Now Yahweh passed by before his face and called: "Yahweh, Yahweh El, Who is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and with much kindness and truth, ⁷ preserving kindness to thousands, bearing with depravity, transgression and sin, yet He is not immediately making innocent in order to make innocent, but visiting the depravity of the fathers on the sons and on the sons' sons, on the third and on the fourth generation." ⁸ Then Moses hastened, bowed his head toward the earth, bowed himself down, ⁹ and said: "I pray, if I find grace in Your eyes, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go among us, for they are a stiff-necked people, and You will pardon our depravity and our sins, and You will gain us an allotment." ¹⁰ Then He said: "Behold, I am contracting a covenant; in front of all your people shall I do marvels which have not been created on the entire earth, or among any of the nations. So all the people among whom you are will see the handiwork of Yahweh, for fear inspiring is that which I am doing with you. ¹¹ Observe for yourself what I am instructing you today. Behold Me driving out from your presence the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. ¹² Guard yourself lest you contract a covenant with the dwellers of the land, to which you are entering, lest it become a trap among you. ¹³ For their altars shall you break down, and their monuments shall you break, and their Asherah poles shall you cut down. ¹⁴ For you shall not bow yourself down to another el (for Yahweh, Jealous is His name; He is a jealous El) ¹⁵ lest you contract a covenant with the dweller of the land when they prostitute after their elohim and sacrifice to their elohim lest one call to you that you eat of his sacrifice. ¹⁶ If you would take of his daughters for your sons and give your daughters to their sons, then his daughters would prostitute after their elohim and cause your sons to prostitute after their elohim. ¹⁷ Molten elohim you shall not make for yourself. ¹⁸ The celebration of unleavened cakes shall you observe seven days. You shall eat unleavened cakes just as I have instructed you for the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came forth from Egypt. ¹⁹ Everyone opening up the womb is Mine, everyone of your cattle, the one opening up of the kine and of the flockling. ²⁰ Yet the male opening up of a donkey you shall ransom with a flockling, and if you should not ransom it then you will break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall ransom. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed. ²¹ Six days shall you serve, and in the seventh day you shall cease; in plowing time and in harvest shall you cease. ²² The celebration of weeks shall you observe for yourself, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and the celebration of the ingathering at the revolution of the year. ²³ Three times in the year shall every male of yours appear before the Lord Yahweh, Elohim of Israel. ²⁴ For I shall evict nations from your presence and widen your boundary. No man shall covet your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your Elohim three times in the year. ²⁵ You shall not slay the blood of My sacrifice with what is leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the passover celebration lodge unto the morning. ²⁶ The first of the firstfruits of your ground shall you bring to the house of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother." ²⁷ Yahweh said to Moses: "Write for yourself these words, for at the bidding of these words I contract with you a covenant and with Israel." ²⁸ And he came to be there before Yahweh, forty days and forty nights. Bread he did not eat and water he did not drink. Thus he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words. ²⁹ It came to be when Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in Moses' hands, when he descended from the mount, that Moses did not realize that the skin of his face gleamed because of His speaking to him. ³⁰ Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face gleamed. So they feared to come close to him. ³¹ Yet Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the princes in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³² Afterward all the sons of Israel came close to him; and he instructed them in all that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³ When Moses finished speaking with them, then he put a covering on his face. ³⁴ Yet whenever Moses entered before Yahweh to speak with Him he took away the covering until he went forth. When he came forth, then he spoke to the sons of Israel that which he was instructed. ³⁵ And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses's face gleamed. Yet Moses restored the covering on his face until he entered to speak with Him.