Exodus, Chapter 34:

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Verses from Exodus, Chapter 34 of the book of Exodus of the Bible.

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New stone slabs

1. And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew two tablets of stone, like the first; and I will write on them the same words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
2. And be ready in the morning; and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain.
3. And no person shall go up with you, nor shall there appear to be any person in the whole mountain; neither sheep nor oxen graze in front of this mountain.
4. Then he carved two tablets of stone, like the first; and Moses rose up in the morning, and went up mount Sinai, as the LORD commanded him; and he took in his hands the two stone tablets.
5. And the LORD descended in the cloud, and was there with him, proclaiming the name of the LORD.
6. And the LORD passing before him, cried out, LORD, LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth;
7. who keeps beneficence in thousands; who forgives iniquity, and transgression, and sin; that the guilty are not considered innocent; who visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the children's children to the third and fourth generation.
8. Then Moses hastened, and bowed his head to the earth, and worshipped.
9. And he said, Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, may the Lord go among us; for these are a stiff-necked people; but forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us into your inheritance.
10. And he said, Behold, I make a covenant; I will do wonders before all your people, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all this people among whom you are will see the work of the LORD; because what I do to you is a terrible thing.
11. Keep what I command you today; behold, I will drive out from before thee the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
12. Beware of making a covenant with the inhabitants of the land you are about to enter; lest it be a snare in your midst.
13. But you will tear down their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves.
14. For you shall not bow down to another god; for the name of the LORD is Zealous; He is a jealous God.
15. Beware of making a covenant with the inhabitants of the land; for when they fornicate with their gods, someone will surely invite you, and you will eat their sacrifice;
16. and you took their daughters for your sons, and their daughters, committing fornication with their gods, made your sons also commit fornication with their gods.
17. You shall not make molten gods for yourself.
15. You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt; no one appears empty before me;
19. But whoever is a servant bought with money, when you have circumcised him, then he will eat of it.
20. The stranger shall not eat of it, neither shall the journeyman; But whoever is bought with money, he will buy it and eat it.
21. Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest; also in the plow and in the harvest you will rest.
22. You shall also keep the festival of weeks, which is the festival of the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat; you will also observe the harvest festival at the end of the year.
23. Three times a year every man among you will appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24. For I will drive out the nations from before you, and enlarge your border; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
25. You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover feast be kept until the morning.
26. You shall bring the first fruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
27. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write these words; for according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
28. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; He did not eat bread or drink water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

The radiant face of Moses

29. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount), that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone after he had spoken with him.
30. And the children of Israel looked upon him, and saw that the skin of his face shone; That's why they were afraid to approach him.
31. Then Moses called them; and Aaron and all the princes of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
32. And afterward all the children of Israel also came; and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.
33. And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
34. But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took off his veil until he went out; and, going out, he told the children of Israel what he was commanded.
35. Thus the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of his face shone; and Moses put the veil over his face again, until he went in to talk to him.