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Exodus 34

The Two Tablets Replaced

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Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself  atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and  bI will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.

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"So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to  aMount Sinai, and  1present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

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aNo man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen  1anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain."

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So he cut out  atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.

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 aThe LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as  1he called upon the name of the LORD.

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Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God,  acompassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and  1truth;

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who  akeeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He  bwill by no means leave the guilty unpunished,  cvisiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."

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Moses made haste  1 ato bow low toward the earth and worship.

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He said, " aIf now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though  1 bthe people are so obstinate, and  cpardon our iniquity and our sin, and  dtake us as Your own  2possession."

The Covenant Renewed

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Then  1God said, "Behold,  aI am going to make a covenant. Before all your people  bI will perform miracles which have not been  2produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people  3among whom you live will see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

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1Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold,  aI am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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aWatch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

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aBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their  1 bAsherim

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--for  ayou shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--

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otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and  asacrifice to their gods, and someone  bmight invite you  1to eat of his sacrifice,

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and  ayou might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

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aYou shall make for yourself no molten gods.

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"You shall observe  athe Feast of Unleavened Bread. For  bseven days you are to eat unleavened bread,  1as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the  cmonth of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

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aThe first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from  1cattle and sheep.

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aYou shall redeem with a lamb the  1first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem  ball the firstborn of your sons.  2 cNone shall appear before Me empty-handed.

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"You shall work  asix days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

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"You shall celebrate  athe Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

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aThree times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord  1GOD, the God of Israel.

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"For I will  1 adrive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

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aYou shall not  1offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread,  bnor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to  2be left over until morning.

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"You shall bring  athe very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God.

"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Then the LORD said to Moses, " aWrite  1down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made  ba covenant with you and with Israel."

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So he was there with the LORD  aforty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And  1 bhe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant,  cthe Ten  2Commandments.

Moses' Face Shines

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It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the  atwo tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that  bthe skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.

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So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and  athey were afraid to come near him.

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Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.

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Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had spoken  1to him on Mount Sinai.

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When Moses had finished speaking with them,  ahe put a veil over his face.

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But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him,  ahe would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

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 athe sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.



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