Context 5The LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the LORD. 6Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations. 8Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship. 9He said, If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession. The Covenant Renewed 10Then God said, Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live will see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you. 11Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim 14for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God 15otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, 16and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. 17You shall make for yourself no molten gods. 18You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. 19The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep. 20You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed. 21You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. 22You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God. 25You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning. 26You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. 27Then the LORD said to Moses, Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28So 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. Moses Face Shines 29It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. 30So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. 32Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. 33When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, 35the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionAnd Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. Douay-Rheims Bible And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord. Darby Bible Translation And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. English Revised Version And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. Webster's Bible Translation And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. World English Bible Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. Young's Literal Translation And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah, Library Blessed and Tragic Unconsciousness'... Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.'--EXODUS xxxiv. 29. '... And Samson wist not that the Lord had departed from him.'--JUDGES xvi. 20. The recurrence of the same phrase in two such opposite connections is very striking. Moses, fresh from the mountain of vision, where he had gazed on as much of the glory of God as was accessible to man, caught some gleam of the light which he adoringly beheld; and a strange radiance sat on his face, unseen by himself, but … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture God Proclaiming his Own Name A Jealous God The Knowledge that God Is, Combined with the Knowledge that He is to be Worshipped. Nature of the Renderings Elijah's Weakness, and Its Cube "That the Righteousness of the Law Might be Fulfilled in Us. " Moses --Making Haste The Christian's God Jehovah. The "I Am. " The True Manner of Keeping Holy the Lord's Day. Links Exodus 34:5 NIV • Exodus 34:5 NLT • Exodus 34:5 ESV • Exodus 34:5 NASB • Exodus 34:5 KJV • Exodus 34:5 Bible Apps • Exodus 34:5 Parallel • Bible Hub |