Exodus · Bible in Basic English
Exodus 34 Bible in Basic English
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1 And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.
1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
2 And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.
2 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.
3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.
3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”
4 So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.
4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
5 And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.
5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8 Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.
9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10 And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.
10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.
12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.
14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,
15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.
18 “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 of Egypt.
19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.
19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.
20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.
21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.
22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
23 Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.
23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
24 For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.
24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
25 No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.
25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk
26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.
27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
30 But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.
30 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.
31 Then Moses sent for them; and Aaron, with the chiefs of the people, came to him; and Moses had talk with them.
31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
32 And later, all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the orders which the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33 And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face.
33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34 But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to have talk with him, he took off the veil till he came out. And whenever he came out he said to the children of Israel what he had been ordered to say;
34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.
35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 32:19; Exodus 31:18; Psalm 119:89; Deuteronomy 10:1–4; Exodus 34:28
- 2 Exodus 19:20; Exodus 19:11; Deuteronomy 9:25; Exodus 24:12; Exodus 19:24
- 3 Exodus 19:12–13; Exodus 19:21; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 12:20; Leviticus 16:17
- 5 Exodus 33:19; Numbers 11:25; Exodus 33:9; Luke 9:34–35; Numbers 11:17
- 6 Psalm 86:15; Joel 2:13; Psalm 103:8–13; Psalm 145:8; Nehemiah 9:17
- 7 Exodus 20:5–6; Psalm 103:3; Deuteronomy 5:9–10; Ephesians 1:7; 1 John 1:9
- 8 Exodus 4:31; 2 Chronicles 20:18; Genesis 17:3
- 9 Psalm 33:12; Psalm 94:14; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 28:9; Jeremiah 10:16
- 10 Psalm 77:14; Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalm 66:5; Isaiah 64:3; Jeremiah 32:21
- 11 Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 6:25–7:1; Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 6:3; Exodus 3:8
- 12 Exodus 23:32–33; Joshua 23:12–13; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 2:2–3
- 13 2 Kings 18:4; Deuteronomy 7:5; Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 7:25–26; Deuteronomy 12:2–3
- 14 Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 32:21; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Matthew 4:10; Nahum 1:2
- 15 Judges 2:17; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Numbers 25:2; Deuteronomy 31:16; Psalm 106:28
- 16 1 Kings 11:2–4; Ezra 9:2; Deuteronomy 7:3–4; Nehemiah 13:25; Numbers 25:1–2
- 17 Leviticus 19:4; Exodus 32:8; Isaiah 46:6–7; Acts 17:29; Acts 19:26
- 18 Leviticus 23:6; Exodus 13:4; Exodus 13:6–7; Deuteronomy 16:1–4; Exodus 12:2
- 19 Exodus 13:2; Exodus 22:29; Exodus 13:12; Numbers 18:15–17; Luke 2:23
- 20 Exodus 13:13; Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16; Numbers 18:15; Exodus 13:15
- 21 Exodus 23:12; Exodus 35:2; Luke 13:14; Deuteronomy 5:12–15; Luke 23:56
- 22 Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:10–15; Numbers 28:16–31; John 7:2; Acts 2:1
- 23 Exodus 23:14; Exodus 23:17; Deuteronomy 16:16; Genesis 32:28; Psalm 84:7
- 24 Psalm 78:55; Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 12:20; 1 Chronicles 4:10; Proverbs 16:7
- 25 Exodus 23:18; Exodus 12:10; Exodus 12:8; Exodus 12:20; Deuteronomy 16:3
- 26 Exodus 23:19; Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 26:2; Deuteronomy 26:10; 1 Corinthians 15:20
- 27 Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 31:9; Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 4:13; Exodus 24:7
- 28 Exodus 34:1; Deuteronomy 4:13; Exodus 24:18; Deuteronomy 9:25; Deuteronomy 9:18
- 29 Matthew 17:2; Luke 9:29; Exodus 32:15; Revelation 1:16; 2 Corinthians 3:13
- 30 Mark 9:3; Luke 5:8; Numbers 12:8; Mark 9:15
- 31 Exodus 3:15; Exodus 24:1–3; Genesis 45:15; Genesis 45:3
- 32 Numbers 15:40; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Exodus 24:3; Matthew 28:20; 1 Kings 22:14
- 33 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; 2 Corinthians 3:13–18; Romans 10:4
- 34 2 Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19–22
- 35 Exodus 34:29–30; Matthew 13:43; John 5:35; Daniel 12:3; Ecclesiastes 8:1
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… upon them a day of fire; but to those who had the fear of God he said, "The Lord God is merciful and gracious, and long-suffering, and of great commiseration, and true, and keeps justice and mercy for thousands, forgiving unrighteousness, and transgressions, and sins."
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, both keeping righteousness and shewing mercy unto thousands, taking away iniquities, and transgressions, and sins.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Then in what follows, Moses bowed his head and worshipped before the Lord who proclaimed the Father, and said: Go Thou then, O Lord, in the midst of us.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)