Exodus 34:23-35 ▼

23 Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

24 For I will drive out and dispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man covet (actively seek for himself) your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times a year.

25 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover (Unleavened Bread) be left over until morning.

26 “You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in his mother’s milk [as some pagans do].”

27 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face was shining [with a unique radiance] because he had been speaking with God.

30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.

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

32 Afterward all the Israelites approached him, and he commanded them to do everything that the LORD had said to him on Mount Sinai.

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

34 But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out. When he came out and he told the Israelites what he had been commanded [by God],

35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses, how his skin shone [with a unique radiance]. So Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with God.