Exodus 34:19-35 ▼

19 |Everything firstborn belongs to me: all the males of your herds, the firstborn of both cattle and sheep.

20 You are to redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, and if you don't redeem it, you are to break its neck. You are to redeem every firstborn of your sons, and no one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 |For six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even during plowing time and harvest you are to rest.

22 |You are to observe the Festival of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

23 Three times during the year all your males are to appear in the presence of the LORD God of Israel,

24 since I'm going to drive out nations before you, and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land, when you go up to appear in the presence of the LORD your God three times a year.

25 |You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, nor are you to allow the sacrifice of the Festival of Passover to remain until morning.

26 |You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the LORD your God. |You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk.|

27 Then the LORD told Moses, |Write down these words, because I'm making a covenant with you and with Israel according to these words.|

28 While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he had the two tablets in his hand, and he did not know that the skin of his face was ablaze with light because he had been speaking with God.

30 Aaron and all the Israelis saw Moses and immediately noticed that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

31 When Moses called to them, Aaron and the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and he spoke to them.

32 Afterwards all the Israelis came near and he gave them everything the LORD told him on Mount Sinai as commandments.

33 When Moses finished speaking with them he put a veil over his face,

34 and then whenever Moses would come in the LORD's presence to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he left the LORD's presence. When he went out, he would tell the Israelis what he had been commanded.

35 The Israelis would see the face of Moses and that the skin of his face shone; then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with God.