Exodus 34:15 — Exodus 34:35

15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

16 And you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

17 You shall not make for yourself any molten gods.

18 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall 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 from Egypt.

19 All that opens the womb is Mine; even the first male produced by all your livestock, of cattle or sheep.

20 And the first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before Me empty.

21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall cease from labor.

22 And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks, that is, of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

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

24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.

25 You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain all night until the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

27 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words, for according to the speaking of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai – and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain – Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone by reason of His speaking with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, at that time the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

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

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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

34 But whenever Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded,

35 The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with Him.

Exodus 33:18 — Exodus 34:14

18 And he said, Please show me Your glory.

19 And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

20 But He said, You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me and live.

21 Then Jehovah said, Here there is a place by Me, and you shall stand upon the rock;

22 And while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My palm until I have passed by.

23 And I will take away My hand, and you will see My back; but My face shall not be seen.

CHAPTER 34

1 Then Jehovah said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered.

2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me, on the top of the mountain.

3 And no one shall come up with you, nor let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.

4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, just as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.

5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud and took His place there with him and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

6 Then Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, God compassionate and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

7 Keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the grandchildren, to the third and fourth generations.

8 And Moses made haste and bowed to the ground and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord please go in our midst; although they are a stiffnecked people, You pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for Your inheritance.

10 And He said, Now I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders such as have not been produced in all the earth, nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for it is an awesome thing that I will perform with you.

11 Observe what I am commanding you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

12 Be careful that you do not make any covenant with the inhabitants of the land against which you are going, lest they become a snare in your midst.

13 But their altars you shall tear down, and their pillars you shall shatter, and their Asherahs you shall cut down

14 (For you shall not worship any other god; for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Exodus 33:2 — Exodus 33:17

2 And I will send an Angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiffnecked people.

4 And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

5 Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people; if I were to go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Now therefore put off your ornaments from you, and I will decide what to do to you.

6 Thus the children of Israel were stripped of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward.

7 Now Moses would take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, some distance from the camp; and he called it the Tent of Meeting. And everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

8 And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up and stand, every man at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses, until he entered the tent.

9 And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stay at the entrance of the tent, and Jehovah would speak with Moses.

10 When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at the entrance of his tent.

11 And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his companion. And Moses would return to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart out of the tent.

12 And Moses said to Jehovah, See, You say to me, Bring up this people; but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.

13 Now therefore if I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know now Your ways, that I may know You, so that I may continue to find favor in Your sight. Consider also that this nation is Your people.

14 And He said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.

15 And he said to Him, If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

16 For how then shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, are distinct from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?

17 And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.

Exodus 32:18 — Exodus 33:1

18 But Moses said, It is not the sound of the cry of triumph, Neither is it the sound of the cry of defeat; But it is the sound of singing that I hear.

19 And as soon as he drew near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.

20 And he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you brought so great a sin upon them?

22 And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord burn. You know the people, that they are set on evil;

23 For they said to me, Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

24 So I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.

25 And when Moses saw that the people were without restraint (for Aaron had let them be without restraint to be a derision among those who rise up against them),

26 Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.

27 And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let each man put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each man kill his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his neighbor.

28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and that day about three thousand men among the people fell.

29 And Moses said, Fill your hands today to Jehovah, for every man has been against his son and against his brother, that He may bestow upon you a blessing today.

30 And on the next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to Jehovah; perhaps I can make expiation for your sin.

31 And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people have committed a great sin and have made gods of gold for themselves.

32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin – and if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.

33 And Jehovah said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

34 And now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you. Now My Angel will go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

35 And Jehovah struck the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

CHAPTER 33

1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.

Exodus 32:1 — Exodus 32:17

1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, Come, make gods for us who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

2 And Aaron said to them, Tear off the gold rings, which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.

3 And all the people tore off the golden rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

4 And he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; then Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.

6 And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

7 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

8 They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshipped it and have sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

9 And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and there they are, a stiffnecked people.

10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.

11 And Moses entreated Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent He brought them out, to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your burning anger, and repent of this evil against Your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

14 Thus Jehovah repented of the evil which He said He would do to His people.

15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both of their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

16 And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.

17 And when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp.