Exod 34
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And YHWH said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will
write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you break.
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And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present
yourself there to me on the top of the mount.
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And no man shall come up with you; neither let any man be seen throughout all the
mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
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And he hewed two tables of stone like to the first; and Moses rose up early in the
morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as YHWH had commanded him, and took in his hand
two tables of stone.
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And YHWH descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name
of YHWH.
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And YHWH passed by before him, and proclaimed, YHWH, YHWH, a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,
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keeping lovingkindness 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, upon the third and upon the fourth
generation.
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And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
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And he said, If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray
you, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity
and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.
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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels,
such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people
among which you are shall see the work of YHWH; for it is a terrible thing that I
do with you.
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Observe you that which I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and
the Jebusite.
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Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where
you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
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but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall
cut down their Asherim;
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for you shall worship no other god: for YHWH, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous
God:
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lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot
after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his
sacrifice;
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and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the harlot
after their gods, and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.
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You shall make you no molten gods.
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The feast of unleavened bread shall you keep. 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 from Egypt.
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All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstlings
of cow and sheep.
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And the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem
it, then you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem.
And none shall appear before me empty.
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Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and
in harvest you shall rest.
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And you shall observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year`s end.
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Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, the God
of Israel.
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For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any
man desire your land, when you go up to appear before YHWH your God three times in
the year.
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You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left to the morning.
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The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of YHWH
your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother`s milk.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these words
I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
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And he was there with YHWH 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.
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And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of
the testimony in Moses` hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not
that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
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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.
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And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned
to him: and Moses spoke to them.
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And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment
all that YHWH had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
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And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
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But when Moses went in before YHWH 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.
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And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses` face shone:
and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.