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1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken. 2 And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to mount Sinai, and stand there before me on the top of the mountain. 3 And let no man go up with thee, neither shall any man be seen on all the mountain; neither shall sheep and oxen feed in front of that mountain. 4 And he hewed two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 5 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. 6 And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth [generation]. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to the earth and worshipped, 9 and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance! 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou [art] shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee. 11 Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee; 13 but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. 14 For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah — Jealous is his name — is a jealous God; 15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice, 16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. 17 — Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods. 18 — The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 19 — All that openeth the womb [is] mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep. 20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou ransom [it] not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt ransom; and none shall appear before me empty. 21 — Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22 — And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. 24 For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year. 25 — Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left over night until the morning. 26 — The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 27 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel. 28 — And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. — And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai — and the two tables of testimony were in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain — that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone through his talking with him. 30 And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him. 31 And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, — Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterwards, all the children of Israel came near; and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on mount Sinai. 33 And Moses ended speaking with them; and he had put on his face a veil. 34 And when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel what he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and 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

    First high priest

    Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10

  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    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. 1 Exodus 32:19; Exodus 31:18; Psalm 119:89; Deuteronomy 10:1–4; Exodus 34:28
  2. 2 Exodus 19:20; Exodus 19:11; Deuteronomy 9:25; Exodus 24:12; Exodus 19:24
  3. 3 Exodus 19:12–13; Exodus 19:21; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 12:20; Leviticus 16:17
  4. 5 Exodus 33:19; Numbers 11:25; Exodus 33:9; Luke 9:34–35; Numbers 11:17
  5. 6 Psalm 86:15; Joel 2:13; Psalm 103:8–13; Psalm 145:8; Nehemiah 9:17
  6. 7 Exodus 20:5–6; Psalm 103:3; Deuteronomy 5:9–10; Ephesians 1:7; 1 John 1:9
  7. 8 Exodus 4:31; 2 Chronicles 20:18; Genesis 17:3
  8. 9 Psalm 33:12; Psalm 94:14; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 28:9; Jeremiah 10:16
  9. 10 Psalm 77:14; Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalm 66:5; Isaiah 64:3; Jeremiah 32:21
  10. 11 Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 6:25–7:1; Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 6:3; Exodus 3:8
  11. 12 Exodus 23:32–33; Joshua 23:12–13; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 2:2–3
  12. 13 2 Kings 18:4; Deuteronomy 7:5; Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 7:25–26; Deuteronomy 12:2–3
  13. 14 Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 32:21; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Matthew 4:10; Nahum 1:2
  14. 15 Judges 2:17; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Numbers 25:2; Deuteronomy 31:16; Psalm 106:28
  15. 16 1 Kings 11:2–4; Ezra 9:2; Deuteronomy 7:3–4; Nehemiah 13:25; Numbers 25:1–2
  16. 17 Leviticus 19:4; Exodus 32:8; Isaiah 46:6–7; Acts 17:29; Acts 19:26
  17. 18 Leviticus 23:6; Exodus 13:4; Exodus 13:6–7; Deuteronomy 16:1–4; Exodus 12:2
  18. 19 Exodus 13:2; Exodus 22:29; Exodus 13:12; Numbers 18:15–17; Luke 2:23
  19. 20 Exodus 13:13; Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16; Numbers 18:15; Exodus 13:15
  20. 21 Exodus 23:12; Exodus 35:2; Luke 13:14; Deuteronomy 5:12–15; Luke 23:56
  21. 22 Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:10–15; Numbers 28:16–31; John 7:2; Acts 2:1
  22. 23 Exodus 23:14; Exodus 23:17; Deuteronomy 16:16; Genesis 32:28; Psalm 84:7
  23. 24 Psalm 78:55; Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 12:20; 1 Chronicles 4:10; Proverbs 16:7
  24. 25 Exodus 23:18; Exodus 12:10; Exodus 12:8; Exodus 12:20; Deuteronomy 16:3
  25. 26 Exodus 23:19; Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 26:2; Deuteronomy 26:10; 1 Corinthians 15:20
  26. 27 Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 31:9; Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 4:13; Exodus 24:7
  27. 28 Exodus 34:1; Deuteronomy 4:13; Exodus 24:18; Deuteronomy 9:25; Deuteronomy 9:18
  28. 29 Matthew 17:2; Luke 9:29; Exodus 32:15; Revelation 1:16; 2 Corinthians 3:13
  29. 30 Mark 9:3; Luke 5:8; Numbers 12:8; Mark 9:15
  30. 31 Exodus 3:15; Exodus 24:1–3; Genesis 45:15; Genesis 45:3
  31. 32 Numbers 15:40; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Exodus 24:3; Matthew 28:20; 1 Kings 22:14
  32. 33 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; 2 Corinthians 3:13–18; Romans 10:4
  33. 34 2 Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19–22
  34. 35 Exodus 34:29–30; Matthew 13:43; John 5:35; Daniel 12:3; Ecclesiastes 8:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 34:6 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XVIII)

    … 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."

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 34:5–7 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture X)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 34:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture X)

    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)