Exodus 34

1Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.Cross-references: Ex 31:18 · Ex 32:16 · Ex 32:19 · Ex 34:28 · Deut 9:15 · Deut 10:1 · +1 more

2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.Cross-references: Ex 19:11 · Ex 19:20 · Ex 19:24 · Ex 24:12 · Deut 9:25

3No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”Cross-references: Ex 19:12 · Ex 19:21 · Lev 16:17 · 1Tim 2:5 · Heb 12:20

4He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

5Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.Cross-references: Ex 19:18 · Ex 33:9 · Ex 33:19 · Num 11:17 · Num 11:25 · Num 14:17 · +6 more

6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 22:27 · Ex 33:20 · Num 14:17 · Deut 5:10 · 1Ki 19:11 · +26 more

7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 23:7 · Ex 23:21 · Num 14:18 · Deut 5:9 · Deut 32:35 · +37 more

8Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.Cross-references: Gen 17:3 · Ex 4:31 · 2Chr 20:18

9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 32:9 · Ex 33:3 · Ex 33:13 · Num 14:19 · Deut 32:9 · +10 more

10He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.Cross-references: Ex 24:7 · Ex 34:27 · Deut 4:13 · Deut 4:32 · Deut 5:2 · Deut 10:21 · +17 more

11Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 33:2 · Deut 4:1 · Deut 4:40 · +10 more

12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;Cross-references: Ex 23:32 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:16 · Josh 23:12 · Judg 2:2 · Judg 8:27 · +1 more

13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;Cross-references: Ex 23:24 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 7:25 · Deut 12:2 · Deut 16:21 · Judg 2:2 · +5 more

14for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:5 · Deut 4:24 · Deut 5:7 · Deut 5:24 · +10 more

15“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;Cross-references: Ex 23:32 · Ex 34:10 · Ex 34:12 · Lev 17:7 · Lev 20:5 · Num 15:39 · +17 more

16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.Cross-references: Num 25:1 · Deut 7:3 · 1Ki 11:2 · Ezra 9:2 · Neh 13:23 · Neh 13:25 · +1 more

17“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.Cross-references: Ex 32:8 · Lev 19:4 · Isa 46:6 · Jer 10:14 · Acts 17:29 · Acts 19:26

18“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 12:2 · Ex 12:15 · Ex 13:4 · Ex 13:6 · Ex 23:15 · Lev 23:6 · +4 more

19“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.Cross-references: Ex 13:2 · Ex 13:12 · Ex 22:29 · Num 18:15 · Ezek 44:30 · Luke 2:23

20You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.Cross-references: Ex 13:10 · Ex 13:13 · Ex 13:15 · Ex 23:15 · Num 3:45 · Num 18:15 · +3 more

21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.Cross-references: Gen 45:6 · Ex 20:9 · Ex 23:12 · Ex 35:2 · Deut 5:12 · Deut 21:4 · +4 more

22“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.Cross-references: Ex 23:16 · Num 28:16 · Num 29:12 · Deut 16:10 · John 7:2 · Acts 2:1

23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Gen 33:20 · Ex 23:14 · Ex 23:17 · Deut 16:16 · Ps 84:7

24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.Cross-references: Gen 35:5 · Ex 23:27 · Ex 33:2 · Ex 34:11 · Lev 18:24 · Deut 7:1 · +9 more

25“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.Cross-references: Ex 12:8 · Ex 12:10 · Ex 12:20 · Ex 23:18 · Ex 29:34 · Lev 7:15 · +3 more

26“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”Cross-references: Ex 23:19 · Deut 14:21 · Deut 26:2 · Deut 26:10 · Prov 3:9 · Matt 6:33 · +2 more

27Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”Cross-references: Ex 17:14 · Ex 24:4 · Ex 24:7 · Ex 34:10 · Deut 4:13 · Deut 31:9

28He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.Cross-references: Ex 24:18 · Ex 31:18 · Ex 32:16 · Ex 34:1 · Deut 4:13 · Deut 9:9 · +4 more

29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.Cross-references: Ex 16:15 · Ex 32:15 · Josh 2:4 · Josh 8:14 · Judg 16:20 · Matt 17:2 · +12 more

30When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.Cross-references: Num 12:8 · Mark 9:3 · Mark 9:15 · Luke 5:8

31Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.Cross-references: Gen 45:3 · Gen 45:15 · Ex 3:15 · Ex 24:1

32Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.Cross-references: Ex 21:1 · Ex 24:3 · Num 15:40 · 1Ki 22:14 · Matt 28:20 · 1Cor 11:23 · +1 more

33When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.Cross-references: Rom 10:4 · 2Cor 3:13 · 2Cor 4:4

34But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.Cross-references: 2Cor 3:16 · Heb 4:16 · Heb 10:19

35The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.Cross-references: Ex 34:29 · Eccl 8:1 · Dan 12:3 · Matt 5:16 · Matt 13:43 · John 5:35 · +1 more