Exodus 34

New Stone Tablets: A New Copy of the Laws

1The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out two stone tablets like the first ones. On these tablets I will write the same words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

2Be ready by morning, and come up to Mount Sinai in the morning. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.

3No one may come up with you. In fact, no person is to be seen anywhere on the entire mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”

4Moses cut out two stone tablets like the first ones. Moses got up early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hand.

5The Lord came down in the cloud. He took his stand there with Moses and proclaimed the name of the Lord .

6The Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed: “The Lord , the Lord , the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and overflowing with mercy and truth,

7maintaining mercy for thousands, forgiving guilt and rebellion and sin. He will by no means clear the guilty. He calls their children and their children's children to account for the guilt of the fathers, even to the third and the fourth generation.”

8Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshipped.

9He said, “If I have now found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go along with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our guilt and our sin, and accept us as your possession.”

The Covenant Repeated

10The Lord said,

The Covenant Festivals

27Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for these are the words with which I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[#34:28 Literally the Hebrew refers to Ten Words not Ten Commandments.]

Moses' Shining Face

29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not realize that the skin of his face was shining because he had been speaking with the Lord .

30When Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, they were amazed that the skin of his face was shining, so they were afraid to come close to him.

31Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the rulers of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

32Afterward, all the people of Israel came close to him, and he gave them all of the commands that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

33When Moses was finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

34But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off until he came out again. Then he would come out and tell the people of Israel what he had been commanded.

35Whenever the people of Israel saw Moses' face, they would see that the skin of Moses' face was shining. Then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord again.

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