1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 And
the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the
name of the LORD.
6 And
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 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.
8 And
Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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:
13 But
ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For
thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God:
15 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;
16 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.
17 Thou
shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 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.
19 All
that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy
cattle, whether ox
or sheep, that is male.
20 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.
21 Six
days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time
and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And
thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and
the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23 Thrice
in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of
Israel.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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.
28 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.
29 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.
30 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.
31 And
Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation
returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32 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.
33 And till Moses
had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34 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.
35 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.
