Êxodo 34

¹ And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Hewe thee two Tables of stone, like vnto the first, and I will write vpon the Tables the wordes that were in the first Tables, which thou brakest in pieces.

² And be ready in ye morning, that thou mayest come vp earely vnto the mount of Sinai, and waite there for me in the top of the mount.

³ But let no man come vp with thee, neither let any man be seene throughout all the mount, neyther let the sheepe nor cattell feede before this mount.

⁴ Then Moses hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and rose vp earely in the morning, and went vp vnto the mount of Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, & tooke in his hande two Tables of stone.

⁵ And the Lorde descended in the cloude, and stoode with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

⁶ And the LORD passed by before him, andThis refers to the Lord, and not to Moses proclaiming: as (Exo_33:19).proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

⁷ Reseruing mercy for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie, and transgression and sinne, and not making the wicked innocent, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon ye children, & vpon childrens children, vnto the third and fourth generation.

⁸ Then Moses made haste & bowed him selfe to the earth, and worshipped,

⁹ And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us;Seeing the people are of this nature, the rulers need to call on God that he would always be present with his Spirit.for it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

¹⁰ And he answered, Behold, I will make a couenant before all thy people, and will do marueiles, such as haue not bene done in all the worlde, neyther in all nations: and all the people among whom thou art, shal see the worke of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

¹¹ Keepe diligently that which I commande thee this day: Beholde, I will cast out before thee the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.

¹² Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for aIf you follow their wickedness, and pollute yourself with their idolatry.snare in the midst of thee:

¹³ But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down theirWhich pleasant places they chose for their idols.groves:

¹⁴ (For thou shalt bow downe to none other god, because the Lord, whose Name is Ielous, is a ielous God)

¹⁵ Lest thou make a compact with the inhabitantes of the lande, and when they goe a whoring after their gods, and doe sacrifice vnto their gods, some man call thee, & thou eate of his sacrifice:

¹⁶ And least thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters goe a whoring after their gods, and make thy sonnes goe a whoring after their gods.

¹⁷ Thou shalt make thee noAs gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: in this is condemned all types idols, no matter what they are made of.molten gods.

¹⁸ The feast of vnleauened bread shalt thou keepe: seuen dayes shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, as I commanded thee, in ye time of the moneth of Abib: for in the moneth of Abib thou camest out of Egypt.

¹⁹ Euery male, that first openeth the wombe, shalbe mine: also all the first borne of thy flocke shalbe rekoned mine, both of beeues and sheepe.

²⁰ But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before meWithout offering something.empty.

²¹ Six dayes shalt thou worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: both in earing time, and in the haruest thou shalt rest.

²² And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingatheringWhich was in September, when the days got shorter, that is, the end of their calendar year.at the year's end.

²³ Thrise in a yere shal all your men children appeare before the Lorde Iehouah God of Israel.

²⁴ For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any manGod promises to defend them and theirs, who obey his commandment.desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

²⁵ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauen, neither shall ought of the sacrifice of the feast of Passeouer be left vnto the morning.

²⁶ The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt notSee (Exo_23:19; Deu_14:21).seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

²⁷ And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenour of these words I haue made a couenant with thee & with Israel.

²⁸ And he was there with the LORDThis miracle was to confirm the authority of the law, and should not be followed any more than other miracles.forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

²⁹ So when Moses came downe fro mount Sinai, the two Tables of the Testimonie were in Moses hande, as hee descended from the mount: (nowe Moses wist not that the skinne of his face shone bright, after that God had talked with him.

³⁰ And Aaron and all the children of Israel looked vpon Moses, and beholde, the skin of his face shone bright, and they were afraid to come neere him)

³¹ But Moses called them: and Aaron and all the chiefe of the congregatio returned vnto him: and Moses talked with them.

³² And afterwarde all the children of Israel came neere, and he charged them with al that the Lord had said vnto him in mount Sinai.

³³ So Moses made an end of comuning with them, and had put a couering vpon his face.

³⁴ But when Moses went inWhich was in the tabernacle of the congregation.before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.

³⁵ And the children of Israel sawe the face of Moses, howe the skin of Moses face shone bright: therefore Moses put the couering vpon his face, vntill he went to speake with God.