Chapter 34
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Carve two tablets of stone like the first ones for yourself, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke."
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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.
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No man shall ascend with you, and no man shall be seen on all the mountain. Also the sheep and the cattle shall not graze before that mountain.
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He hewed two tablets of stone like the first ones, and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai just as the LORD had commanded him, and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.
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And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and called in the name of the LORD.
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And the LORD passed over his face, and the LORD called, "The LORD, God merciful and gracious, long of nostrils, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness."
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keeping steadfast love to thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, and clearing—he will not clear; visiting iniquity of fathers on sons and on sons of sons, on thirds and on fourths.
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And Moses hurried and bowed to the ground and prostrated himself.
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He said, "If now I have found divine favor in your eyes, my Lord, may my Lord now go in our midst, for they are a stiff-necked people, and forgive our iniquity and our sin and take us as your inheritance."
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And he said, "Behold, I am cutting a covenant before all your people. I will do a wondrous thing which has not been created in all the earth and in all the nations. And all the people which you are in its midst will see the work of the LORD, for it is awesome which I am doing with you."
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Keep for yourself that which I am commanding you today. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
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Take heed to yourself, lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitant of the land on which you are coming, lest it be for a snare in your midst.
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for their altars you shall tear down and their sacred pillars you shall break and their Asherah poles you shall cut down.
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for you shall not prostrate yourself to another god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they prostitute after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and he calls to you and you eat from his altar.
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and you take from their daughters for your sons and their daughters prostitute after their gods and they prostitute your sons after their gods.
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You shall not make for yourself a molten image of God.
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You shall keep the festival of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came out from Egypt.
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Every firstborn from the womb is mine, and every firstborn of your oxen and sheep you shall consecrate.
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And you shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem, and they shall not appear before my face empty-handed.
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Six days you shall serve, and on the seventh day you shall rest from work—in plowing and in harvest you shall rest from work.
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You shall observe the Festival of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
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Three times in the year every male of yours shall appear before the Lord GOD of Israel.
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For I will dispossess nations from before you and enlarge your border, and no man will covet your land when you go up to see the face of the LORD your God three times in the year.
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You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifices over leaven, and the sacrifice of the festival of Passover shall not remain until morning.
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You shall bring the firstborn of your land to the house of the LORD your God; you shall not boil a kid in the milk of its mother.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words for yourself, for on the basis of these words I have made a covenant with you and Israel."
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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.