1 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first, and I have written on the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou hast broken; 2 and be prepared at morning, and thou hast come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and hast stood before Me there, on the top of the mount, 3 and no man cometh up with thee, and also no man is seen in all the mount, also the flock and the herd do not feed over-against that mount.' 4 And he heweth two tables of stone like the first, and Moses riseth early in the morning, and goeth up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah commanded him, and he taketh in his hand two tables of stone. 5 And Jehovah cometh down in a cloud, and stationeth Himself with him there, and calleth in the Name of Jehovah, 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: 'Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third [generation], and on a fourth.' 8 And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance, 9 and saith, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it [is] a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.' 10 And He saith, 'Lo, I am making a covenant: before all thy people I do wonders, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation, and all the people in whose midst thou [art] have seen the work of Jehovah, for it [is] fearful that which I am doing with thee. 11 'Observe for thyself that which I am commanding thee to-day: lo, I am casting out from before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; 12 take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst; 13 for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down; 14 for ye do not bow yourselves to another god — for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God. 15 'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice, 16 and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods; 17 a molten god thou dost not make to thyself. 18 'The feast of unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at an appointed time, the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou didst come out from Egypt. 19 'All opening a womb [are] Mine, and every firstling of thy cattle born a male, ox or sheep; 20 and the firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb; and if thou dost not ransom, then thou hast beheaded it; every first-born of thy sons thou dost ransom, and they do not appear before Me empty. 21 'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest. 22 'And a feast of weeks thou dost observe for thyself; first-fruits of wheat-harvest; and the feast of in-gathering, at the revolution of the year. 23 'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel; 24 for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year. 25 'Thou dost not slaughter with a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice; and the sacrifice of the feast of the passover doth not remain till morning: 26 the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.' 27 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Write for thyself these words, for, according to the tenor of these words I have made with thee a covenant, and with Israel.' 28 And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant — the ten matters. 29 And it cometh to pass, when Moses is coming down from mount Sinai (and the two tables of the testimony [are] in the hand of Moses in his coming down from the mount), that Moses hath not known that the skin of his face hath shone in His speaking with him, 30 and Aaron seeth — all the sons of Israel also — Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him. 31 And Moses calleth unto them, and Aaron and all the princes in the company return unto him, and Moses speaketh unto them; 32 and afterwards have all the sons of Israel come nigh, and he chargeth them with all that Jehovah hath spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And Moses finisheth speaking with them, and putteth on his face a vail; 34 and in the going in of Moses before Jehovah to speak with Him, he turneth aside the vail until his coming out; and he hath come out and hath spoken unto the sons of Israel that which he is commanded; 35 and the sons of Israel have seen the face of Moses that the skin of the face of Moses hath shone, and Moses hath put back the vail on his face until his going in to speak with Him.
Exodus · Young's Literal Translation
Exodus 34 Young's Literal Translation
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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
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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)