Exodus 34

About Exodus Exodus tells how God freed Israel from slavery in Egypt, gave the law at Sinai, and came to dwell among them.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.SelectedExodus 34:1Ask

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.SelectedExodus 34:2Ask

And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.SelectedExodus 34:3Ask

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.SelectedExodus 34:4Ask

And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.SelectedExodus 34:5Ask

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,SelectedExodus 34:6Ask

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.SelectedExodus 34:7Ask

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.SelectedExodus 34:8Ask

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.SelectedExodus 34:9Ask

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.SelectedExodus 34:10Ask

Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.SelectedExodus 34:11Ask

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:SelectedExodus 34:12Ask

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:SelectedExodus 34:13Ask

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:SelectedExodus 34:14Ask

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;SelectedExodus 34:15Ask

And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.SelectedExodus 34:16Ask

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.SelectedExodus 34:17Ask

The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.SelectedExodus 34:18Ask

All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.SelectedExodus 34:19Ask

But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.SelectedExodus 34:20Ask

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.SelectedExodus 34:21Ask

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.SelectedExodus 34:22Ask

Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.SelectedExodus 34:23Ask

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.SelectedExodus 34:24Ask

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.SelectedExodus 34:25Ask

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.SelectedExodus 34:26Ask

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.SelectedExodus 34:27Ask

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.SelectedExodus 34:28Ask

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.SelectedExodus 34:29Ask

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.SelectedExodus 34:30Ask

And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.SelectedExodus 34:31Ask

And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.SelectedExodus 34:32Ask

And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.SelectedExodus 34:33Ask

But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.SelectedExodus 34:34Ask

And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.SelectedExodus 34:35Ask

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