Cut New Tablet
Moses carve new tablets, and our Papa pass for en front dey announce en own name: e get compassion and e get grace, e no dey quick vex, en covenant love plenty well-well, e dey forgive — but e no dey clear di pesin wey get guilt. Dem renew di covenant, and Moses come down wit face wey dey shine, but e no know say e dey shine.
34 1Our Papa tell Moses say, “Carve two stone tablet for yourself, like di first one. I go write for dem di words wey bin dey for di first tablet, wey you break. 2Ready for morning. Den come up Mount Sinai, and come show yourself to me for there on top di mountain. 3Nobody fit come up with you, or make dem see am anywhere for di mountain; even flock or herd no fit graze dey face dat mountain.”
4So Moses cut two stone tablet like di first one, wake up early, go up Mount Sinai as our Papa don command am, dey carry di two stone tablet for im hand. 5Den our Papa come down inside di cloud and stand with am for there, and call di name of our Papa.
6Our Papa pass for im front, dey proclaim say, “your Papa—wey im belle dey pain am for people and wey get grace, wey no dey quick vex, wey full with Covenant love and faithfulness, 7wey dey keep Covenant love for thousand-thousand people, wey dey forgive bad-bad thing, rebellion, and sin; but e no go just say di guilty person no do anything, e dey bring di guilt of papa-and-mama on top pikin and grandpikin, reach di third and fourth generation.”
8Moses quick bow reach ground and worship. 9E talk say, “If I don find favour for your eye, Oga Papa, make Oga Papa go among us, even as dis people be stubborn people. Forgive our guilt and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
10E talk say, “I dey make Covenant. For front of all your people I go do wonder wey dem never create for any nation or for all di earth. All di people wey you dey live among dem go see your Papa work, because wetin I dey do with you dey cause fear. 11Keep wetin I command you today. I dey drive out for your front di Amorite people, Canaanite people, Hittite people, Perizzite people, Hivite people, and Jebusite people. 12Take care: no make Covenant with dem wey dey live for di land wey you dey enter, or dem go turn to trap among you. 13Instead, break down dia altar, scatter dia pillar, and cut down dia Asherah pole. 14No bow to any other god—your Papa name na Jealous; e be jealous Papa.” a a v14 Our Papa jealousy no be small-mind envy but di strong, protective love wey husband get for im bride — e no go gree share im pikin heart with idol wey dey destroy dem.
15“No make any Covenant with di people wey dey live for di land, because when dem dey prostitute demself to dia gods and dey sacrifice to dem, dem go invite you, and you go chop from dia sacrifice; 16and you go take dia daughter for your son, and dia daughter go prostitute demself to dia gods, dey pull your son to do di same thing.”
17“You must no make cast-metal god for yourself.”
18“Keep di Festival of Bread wey no get yeast: chop bread wey no get yeast for seven days, as I command you, for di set time for di month of Abib—because na for di month of Abib you comot for Egypt.”
19“Every firstborn wey open womb na mine—every male among your livestock, di firstborn of ox and sheep.”
20“Redeem donkey firstborn with lamb; if you no redeem am, break im neck. Redeem all your son firstborn. Nobody fit appear for my front empty-hand.”
21“Six days you dey work; di seventh day you go rest—even during plowing and harvest, rest.”
22“Keep di Feast of Weeks with di firstfruits of di wheat harvest, and di Feast of Ingathering for di turn of di year.”
23“Three times for one year all your male go appear for front of di Oga Papa of Israel. 24Because I go drive out nations for your front and enlarge your border; nobody go crave your land when you go up to appear for front of your Papa three times for one year.”
25“No offer di blood of my sacrifice with anything wey get yeast, and no let di sacrifice of di Passover feast stay till morning.”
26“Bring di best firstfruits of your soil to your Papa house. No boil young goat inside im mama milk.”
27Den our Papa tell Moses say, “Write dis words, because na according to dis words I don make Covenant with you and with Israel.”
28Moses stay there with our Papa forty days and forty nights, e no chop bread, e no drink water. E write di words of di Covenant—di Ten Words—on top di tablet.
Moses Come Down
29As Moses dey come down Mount Sinai with di two tablet of di testimony for im hand, e no know say im face dey shine because e don talk with our Papa. 30Aaron and all di Israel people see say Moses face dey shine, and dem fear to come near am. 31Moses call dem; Aaron and all di leaders of di assembly come back, and Moses talk to dem. 32After dat, all di Israel people come near, and e command dem all wetin our Papa don tell am for Mount Sinai. 33When Moses don finish to talk with dem, e put veil on top im face. 34But anytime Moses go in for front of our Papa to talk with am, e go remove di veil till e comot; den e go comot and tell di Israel people wetin dem command am. 35Di Israel people go see say Moses face dey shine, and Moses go put di veil back on im face till e go in to talk with our Papa again.
