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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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Moses Makes New Tablets

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

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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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So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the 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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And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

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

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

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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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And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

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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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keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

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Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped.

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So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

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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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Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

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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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The Covenant Renewed

And He said: “Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do [b]marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor 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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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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Observe what I command you this day. 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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“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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Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

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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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But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images

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

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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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lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,

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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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and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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

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“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

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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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“The Feast of Unleavened Bread 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.

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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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“All [c]that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep.

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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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But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.
“And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

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

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

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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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For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

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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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“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

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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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“The first of the firstfruits of your land 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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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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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

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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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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 [d]Ten Commandments.

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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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The Shining Face of Moses

Now it was so, 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), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with 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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So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

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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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Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them.

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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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Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

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

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

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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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But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded.

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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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And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

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