Exodus · Unlocked Literal Bible
Exodus 34 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first tablets. I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, the tablets that you broke.
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 Be ready by morning and come up Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the mountain top.
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. Do not let anyone else be seen anywhere on the mountain. No flocks or herds are even to graze in front of the mountain.”
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 cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and he got up early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had instructed him. Moses carried the tablets of stone 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 Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with Moses there, and he pronounced the name “Yahweh.”
5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
6 Yahweh passed by before him and proclaimed, “Yahweh, Yahweh, God is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness,
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 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquities, transgressions, and sins. But he will by no means clear the guilty. He will bring the punishment for the fathers' sin on their children and on their children's children, as far as the third and fourth generations.”
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 Moses quickly bowed his head to the ground and worshiped.
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 Then he said, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord, please go among us, for this people is stubborn. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
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 Yahweh said, “See, I am about to make a covenant. Before all your people, I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation. All the people among you will see my deeds, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
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 Obey what I command you today. I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among 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 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
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 must worship no other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 So be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for they prostitute themselves to their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods. Then one of them will invite you and you will eat some of his sacrifice,
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 and then you will even take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods, and they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods.
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 Do not make for yourselves gods of molten metal.
17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
18 You must keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat bread without yeast for seven days at the fixed time in the month of Aviv, for it was in the month of Aviv you came out from 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 All the firstborn are mine, even every male firstborn of your cattle, both of oxen and sheep.
19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
20 You must buy back the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, but if you do not buy it back, then you must break its neck. You must buy back all the firstborn of your sons. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
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 You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must 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 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year's end.
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 a year all your men must appear before Lord Yahweh, 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 drive out nations before you and expand your borders. No one will desire to have your land as their own when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in a 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 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with any yeast, nor may any meat from the sacrifice at the Festival of the Passover be left over to 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 You must bring the best of the firstfruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat 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 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
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 Moses was there with Yahweh for forty days and nights; he did not eat any food nor drink any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
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 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant decrees in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while speaking 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 When Aaron and the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
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 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community came up to him. Then Moses spoke 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 After this, all the people of Israel came up to Moses, and he told them all the commands that Yahweh 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 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34 Whenever Moses went before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. When he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he was commanded 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 When the Israelites saw Moses' face shining, he would put the veil over his face again until he went back in to speak with Yahweh.
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.
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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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“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).
… 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)