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The Book of Exodus 34

34 Yahweh kept talking to Moses, “Cut two slabs of stone like the first slabs, the ones that you smashed. Then I will write the same thing on them as was on the first slabs. 2 Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up and stand before me at the top of Mount Sinai. 3 Do not allow anyone to come up with you. I do not want anyone else to be anywhere on the mountain. Do not even allow any sheep or cattle to eat grass near the mountain.” 4 So Moses cut two slabs of stone like the first ones. He rose early the next morning, picked up the slabs, and carried them in his hands up to the top of Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had told him.

5 Then Yahweh came down in the tall cloud and stood there with Moses. Then Yahweh called out his name, “Yahweh.” 6 Yahweh passed in front of him and called out, “I am Yahweh God. I always act mercifully and kindly toward people, and I do not get angry quickly. I abundantly love and faithfully do what I promise for my people. 7 I abundantly love people for thousands of generations. I forgive people for doing wrong, transgressing, and sinning. But I will certainly punish the guilty. If people do wrong, I cause that to affect their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation.”

8 Quickly Moses bowed low down on the ground and worshiped Yahweh. 9 He said, “My Lord, if you are now pleased with me, I ask that you go with us. These people are very stubborn, but forgive us for all our sins, and accept us as the people who belong to you forever.”

10 Yahweh replied, “Pay attention! I am going to remind you of what I agreed with the Israelites. As for me, I will perform great miracles. These will be miracles that no one has ever done on the earth in any people group. Every nation around them will see the great things that I, Yahweh, will do. I will do things for you all that will make everyone revere me. 11 Obey what I am about to command you today. I will surely force the Amor, Canaan, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people groups to leave the land for you.

12 Be careful that you do not agree to live peacefully with any of the people who live in the land into which you are going. If you do that, you will begin to do the evil things that they do. It will be like falling into a trap. 13 Rather, you must tear down their altars, destroy their idols, and cut down the poles that they use to worship Asherah. 14 Do that because you must not worship any other god, because I, Yahweh, am passionate for people to recognize that I am the only true God, like a husband is passionate for his wife to love only him. 15 Again, do not agree to live peacefully with any of the people who live in the land, because when they worship their gods and offer sacrifices to them, they will invite you to join them. Then you will be unfaithful to me and sin by eating the food that they sacrifice to their gods. 16 Then you will sin by having some of their women to be wives for your sons. These women will worship their own gods. They will also make your sons be unfaithful to me by worshiping those gods.

17 Do not make your own gods by pouring melted metal into statue molds.

18 Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread the way that I commanded you: eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month called Aviv. I set this time because Aviv is the month when you left Egypt.

19 All your firstborn sons belong to me. All the firstborn males of your domesticated animals, cows, sheep, and goats, belong to me. 20 In the case of a firstborn donkey, you must buy it back by killing a lamb instead of it. If you do not buy it back, you must kill the donkey by breaking its neck. You must buy back every one of your firstborn sons. Do not come to worship me without bringing an offering.

21 Work six days each week, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even during the times when you are plowing the ground or harvesting your crops, you must rest on the seventh day.

22 In the spring, when you begin to harvest the first wheat crop, have the Celebration of Weeks, and at the end of the year have the Finished Harvest Celebration. 23 Three times every year, all the men must gather together to worship me, the Lord Yahweh, the Israelite’s God. 24 Surely, I will force the people groups to leave the land you are going to, and I will make your territory larger. No one will want to try to conquer your country while the men come to worship Yahweh your God for these three festivals each year.

25 Do not sacrifice bread you made with yeast along with blood from an animal sacrifice. Do not keep until the next morning any part of the animals you sacrificed at the Passover celebration.

26 Each year, when you harvest your crops, take the best of what you harvest first, go to the place where you worship me, and give it to me, Yahweh your God.

When you kill a young animal, do not cook it by boiling it in its mother’s milk.”

27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write down the words that I have told you. By giving you these commands, I have made an agreement with you and with the Israelites.” 28 Moses was there on the top of the mountain with Yahweh for 40 days and nights. During that time he did not eat or drink anything. He engraved on the stone slabs the words of the Ten Commandments which were part of Yahweh’s solemn agreement.

29 When Moses came back down from Mount Sinai he was carrying the two stone slabs on which he had written the Ten Commandments. His face was very bright from talking to Yahweh, but he did not know it. 30 When Aaron and the Israelites saw Moses, they were amazed that his face was bright, and were afraid to approach him. 31 But Moses summoned them, and Aaron and the other Israelite leaders came back to him, and he talked with them. 32 Afterwards, all the Israelites came near, and Moses told them all that Yahweh had commanded him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses finished talking to the people, he covered his face with a thin cloth.

34 Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to talk with Yahweh, he would remove the cloth. When he came back out, he would always tell the Israelite people everything that Yahweh had commanded him to tell them. 35 The Israelites would see that Moses’ face was still bright. Then he would put the cloth on his face again until the next time that he went to talk with Yahweh.

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