 1 The Lord said to Moses, Cut out two tablets of stone like the first and I will write upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. 3 No one shall come up with you nor let any one be seen throughout all the mountain. Also do not let the flocks or herds feed before that mountain. 4 Then Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first, arose early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him. He took the two tablets of stone in his hand. 5 The Lord came down in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the children's children to the third and to the fourth generation. 8 Moses made haste and bowed toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 He said, If I have found grace in your sight now O Lord, I ask you to let my Lord go among us. For they are a stiff necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for your inheritance. 10 He said, Behold. I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation. All the people in whose midst you are will see the work of the Lord for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. 11 Observe what 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. 12 Take heed lest you make a covenant with the people of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. 14 For you shall worship no other god because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land nor go after their gods nor sacrifice to their gods nor eat their sacrifice. 16 Do not take their daughters for your sons because their daughters might go after their gods and make your sons go after their gods. 17 Do not make any molten gods. 18 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib. For in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 All that open the womb are mine. All your male livestock, a firstling of ox or sheep. 20 But the firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. If you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem and no one shall appear before me empty. 21 You shall work six days. But on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. 23 Three times in the year your men shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither shall any man desire your land when you shall go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year. 25 You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice on leavened bread. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning. 26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 27 The Lord said to Moses, Write these words: For by these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28 He was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 29 As Moses was going down from the mountain of Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses' hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had become luminous through His speaking with him. 30 Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses and his face had become luminous. They were afraid to come near him. 31 Moses called to them. Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near and he commanded them all what the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 Moses finished speaking with them and put a veil on his face. 34 But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil off until he came out. Then he came out and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. 35 The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face had become luminous. Then Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with Him.
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