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Moses Makes New Tablets

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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A New Copy of the Covenant

Then the LORD told Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones. I will write on them the same words that were on the tablets you smashed.

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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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Be ready in the morning to climb up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me on the top of the mountain.

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No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

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No one else may come with you. In fact, no one is to appear anywhere on the mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze near the mountain.”

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So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.

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So Moses chiseled out two tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

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The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

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Then the LORD came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and he called out his own name, Yahweh.a

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

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The LORD passed in front of Moses, calling out,
“Yahweh!b The LORD!
The God of compassion and mercy!
I am slow to anger
and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

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keeping steadfast love for thousands,a forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.c
I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
But I do not excuse the guilty.
I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;
the entire family is affected —
even children in the third and fourth generations.”

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And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.

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Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped.

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And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

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And he said, “O Lord, if it is true that I have found favor with you, then please travel with us. Yes, this is a stubborn and rebellious people, but please forgive our iniquity and our sins. Claim us as your own special possession.”

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The Covenant Renewed

And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

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The LORD replied, “Listen, I am making a covenant with you in the presence of all your people. I will perform miracles that have never been performed anywhere in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people around you will see the power of the LORD — the awesome power I will display for you.

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“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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But listen carefully to everything I command you today. Then I will go ahead of you and drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.

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“Be very careful never to make a treaty with the people who live in the land where you are going. If you do, you will follow their evil ways and be trapped.

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You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim

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Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

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(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

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You must worship no other gods, for the LORD, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you.

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lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

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“You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.

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and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

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Then you will accept their daughters, who sacrifice to other gods, as wives for your sons. And they will seduce your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.

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“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

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You must not make any gods of molten metal for yourselves.

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“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

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“You must celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib,d for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.

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All that open the womb are mine, all your maleb livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

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“The firstborn of every animal belongs to me, including the firstborn malese from your herds of cattle and your flocks of sheep and goats.

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The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.

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A firstborn donkey may be bought back from the LORD by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place. But if you do not buy it back, you must break its neck. However, you must buy back every firstborn son.
“No one may appear before me without an offering.

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

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“You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working, even during the seasons of plowing and harvest.

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You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

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“You must celebrate the Festival of Harvestf with the first crop of the wheat harvest, and celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvestg at the end of the harvest season.

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

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Three times each year every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the LORD, the God of Israel.

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

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I will drive out the other nations ahead of you and expand your territory, so no one will covet and conquer your land while you appear before the LORD your God three times each year.

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“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

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“You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And none of the meat of the Passover sacrifice may be kept over until the next morning.

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The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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“As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the LORD your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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

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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of the covenant I am making with you and with Israel.”

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So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.c

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Moses remained there on the mountain with the LORD forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the LORDh wrote the terms of the covenant — the Ten Commandmentsi — on the stone tablets.

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The Shining Face of Moses

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.d

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When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant,j he wasn’t aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the LORD.

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

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So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses’ face, they were afraid to come near him.

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But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

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But Moses called out to them and asked Aaron and all the leaders of the community to come over, and he talked with them.

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Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

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Then all the people of Israel approached him, and Moses gave them all the instructions the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.

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

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When Moses finished speaking with them, he covered his face with a veil.

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Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

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But whenever he went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he would remove the veil until he came out again. Then he would give the people whatever instructions the LORD had given him,

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the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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and the people of Israel would see the radiant glow of his face. So he would put the veil over his face until he returned to speak with the LORD.

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