Exodus 34

34 ¹ Our Father 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."

Moses on the Mountain

² "Be ready by morning, and in the morning come up to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain." ³ "No one is to come up with you, and let no one be seen anywhere on the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain."

⁴ So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. He rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as our Father had commanded him, and he carried in his hand the two tablets of stone.

⁵ Then our Father came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of our Father. ⁶ Our Father passed before him and proclaimed: "your Father — compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and overflowing with steadfast love and faithfulness, ⁷ keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion and sin yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, calling the children and grandchildren to account for the wrongdoing of the parents, to the third and the fourth generation."

⁸ Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped. ⁹ He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Sovereign Father, let the Sovereign Father go in our midst, even though this is a stubborn people. Pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰ And he said, "Look, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders never created in all the earth or in any nation. All the people around you will see the work of our Father, for what I am about to do with you is an awesome thing." ¹¹ "Obey what I command you today. I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites." ¹² "Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, or they will become a snare among you." ¹³ "Instead, you are to tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles." ¹⁴ "You must not bow down to any other god, for our Father, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous Father." ¹ 1 v14 Our Father's jealousy is not petty envy but the fierce, protective love of a husband for his bride — he will not share his children's hearts with idols that destroy them.

¹⁵ "Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifice; ¹⁶ and when you take their daughters for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and lead your sons to do the same."

¹⁷ "You must not make cast-metal gods for yourselves."

¹⁸ "You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came out of Egypt."

¹⁹ "Every firstborn that opens the womb belongs to me, including all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle and sheep." ²⁰ "You are to redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. You are to redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed."

²¹ "Six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even in plowing time and harvest you are to rest."

²² "You are to observe the Feast of Weeks with 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 are to appear before the Sovereign Father of Israel." ²⁴ "For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before your Father three times a year."

²⁵ "You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice along with anything made with yeast, and the sacrifice of the Passover Feast must not be left over until morning."

²⁶ "You are to bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of your Father. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

²⁷ Then our Father said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in keeping with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

²⁸ Moses was there with our Father forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

Moses Descends

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that his face was radiant because he had been speaking with our Father.

A Face Full of Light

³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.

³¹ But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the assembly came back to him, and Moses spoke with them. ³² Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he passed on to them everything our Father had told him on Mount Sinai.

³³ When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. ³⁴ But whenever Moses went in before our Father to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out; then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded. ³⁵ The Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant, and Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with our Father again.