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Exodus 34
The New Stone Tablets
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the
first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first
tablets, which you broke.
2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself
to me there on top of the mountain.
3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not
even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."
4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went
up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and
he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.
5 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed
his name, the LORD .
6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD , the LORD
, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love
and faithfulness,
7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and
sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children
and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth
generation."
8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
9 "O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes," he said, "then
let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive
our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
10 Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all
your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the
world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that
I, the LORD , will do for you.
11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites,
Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where
you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
13 Break down their
altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD , whose name is Jealous,
is a jealous God.
15 "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land;
for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them,
they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons
and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead
your sons to do the same.
17 "Do not make cast idols.
18 "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread
made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time
in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 "The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all
the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it,
break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
"No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;
even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
22 "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat
harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign
LORD , the God of Israel.
24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and
no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear
before the LORD your God.
25 "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything
containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover
Feast remain until morning.
26 "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of
the LORD your God.
"Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
27 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance
with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating
bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the
covenant-the Ten Commandments.