Exodus 34:5-35 ▼

5 And YHWH descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed in His name, YHWH.

6 And YHWH passed before his face and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving devotion and truth,

7 keeping loving devotion to the thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and he will surely not acquit the guilty, visiting iniquity of fathers upon sons and upon sons of sons, upon a third and upon a fourth.”

8 And Moses hurried and bowed down to the earth and worshiped.

9 And he said, “If please I have found favor in Your eyes, O Lord my Lord, please, go among us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and You shall pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

10 And He said, “Behold, I am cutting a covenant before all your people. I will do marvels that have not been created in all the earth and in all the nations. And all the people who are among you shall see the work of YHWH, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

11 Keep for yourself what I am commanding you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Guard for yourself lest you make a covenant with the dwellers of the land where you are entering, lest it become a snare in your midst.

13 But their altars you? shall break down, and their pillars you? shall smash, and their Asherah poles you? shall cut down.

14 For you shall worship no other god, for YHWH, Jealous is his name, is a jealous God.

15 Lest you cut a covenant with the dwellers of the land, and they play the prostitute with their gods, and they make sacrifice to their gods, and he calls to you, and you eat from his sacrifice,

16 and you take from his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the prostitute with their gods, and they make your sons play the prostitute with their gods.

17 Molten gods you shall not make for yourselves.

18 The feast of the Unleavened you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

19 All that open the womb belong to Me, and all firstborn of your livestock born a male, whether ox or sheep.

20 And the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and none shall appear before My face empty.

21 Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: In the plowing time and in the harvest you shall rest.

22 And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year.

23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the face of the Lord YHWH, God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out the nations before your face and enlarge your border, and no man will covet your land when you go up to appear before the face of YHWH your God three times in the year.

25 You shall not slaughter with leaven the blood of My sacrifice, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not remain until the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of YHWH your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.”

27 And YHWH said to Moses, “Write for yourself these words, for upon the mouth of these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he has not eaten bread and has not drunk water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Words.

29 And it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in the hand of Moses when he came down from the mountain), and Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone in his speaking with Him.

30 And Aaron saw—and all the sons of Israel—Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near to him.

31 And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

32 And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that YHWH had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

33 And Moses finished from speaking with them, and he put on his face a veil.

34 And whenever Moses went in before the face of YHWH to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until his coming out. And he would come out and speak to the sons of Israel whatever he had been commanded,

35 and the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, and Moses would return the veil on his face until he went in to speak with Him.