Exodus 34

Modern

Literal

New Stone Tablets

¹Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

¹And YHWH said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered.

²Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.

²And be ready for the morning, and you shall come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.

³No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

³And no man shall come up with you, and also let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; also the flock and the herd shall not pasture toward the front of that mountain.”

⁴So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

⁴And he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. And Moses rose early in the morning, and he went up to Mount Sinai, as YHWH had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

⁵And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.

⁵And YHWH descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed in His name, YHWH.

⁶Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out:

“The LORD, the LORD God,

is compassionate and gracious,

slow to anger,

abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

⁶And YHWH passed before his face and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving devotion and truth,

⁷maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations,^a

forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.

Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished;

He will visit the iniquity of the fathers

on their children and grandchildren

to the third and fourth generations.”

⁷keeping loving devotion to the thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and he will surely not acquit the guilty, visiting iniquity of fathers upon sons and upon sons of sons, upon a third and upon a fourth.”

⁸Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

⁸And Moses hurried and bowed down to the earth and worshiped.

⁹“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

⁹And he said, “If please I have found favor in Your eyes, O Lord my Lord, please, go among us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and You shall pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

The LORD Renews the Covenant

¹⁰And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

¹⁰And He said, “Behold, I am cutting a covenant before all your people. I will do marvels that have not been created in all the earth and in all the nations. And all the people who are among you shall see the work of YHWH, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

¹¹Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

¹¹Keep for yourself what I am commanding you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²Be careful not to make a treaty^a with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

¹²Guard for yourself lest you make a covenant with the dwellers of the land where you are entering, lest it become a snare in your midst.

¹³Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

¹³But their altars you shall break down, and their pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall cut down.

¹⁴For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

¹⁴For you shall worship no other god, for YHWH, Jealous is his name, is a jealous God.

¹⁵Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

¹⁵Lest you cut a covenant with the dwellers of the land, and they play the prostitute with their gods, and they make sacrifice to their gods, and he calls to you, and you eat from his sacrifice,

¹⁶And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

¹⁶and you take from his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the prostitute with their gods, and they make your sons play the prostitute with their gods.

¹⁷You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

¹⁷Molten gods you shall not make for yourselves.

¹⁸You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.^a For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,^b you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁸The feast of the Unleavened you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

¹⁹The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.

¹⁹All that open the womb belong to Me, and all firstborn of your livestock born a male, whether ox or sheep.

²⁰You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

²⁰And the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and none shall appear before My face empty.

²¹Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

²¹Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: In the plowing time and in the harvest you shall rest.

²²And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks^a with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering^b at the turn of the year.

²²And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year.

²³Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

²³Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the face of the Lord YHWH, God of Israel.

²⁴For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

²⁴For I will cast out the nations before your face and enlarge your border, and no man will covet your land when you go up to appear before the face of YHWH your God three times in the year.

²⁵Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

²⁵You shall not slaughter with leaven the blood of My sacrifice, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not remain until the morning.

²⁶Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.

You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²⁶The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of YHWH your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.”

²⁷The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

²⁷And YHWH said to Moses, “Write for yourself these words, for upon the mouth of these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel.”

²⁸So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^a

²⁸And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he has not eaten bread and has not drunk water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Words.

²⁹And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

²⁹And it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in the hand of Moses when he came down from the mountain), and Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone in his speaking with Him.

³⁰Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.

³⁰And Aaron saw—and all the sons of Israel—Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near to him.

³¹But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

³¹And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

³²And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.

³²And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that YHWH had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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

³³And Moses finished from speaking with them, and he put on his face a veil.

³⁴But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

³⁴And whenever Moses went in before the face of YHWH to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until his coming out. And he would come out and speak to the sons of Israel whatever he had been commanded,

³⁵and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

³⁵and the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, and Moses would return the veil on his face until he went in to speak with Him.