Exodus, 34

1. Yahweh said to Moses, 'Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

1. The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.

2. Be ready at dawn; at dawn come up Mount Sinai and wait for me there at the top of the mountain.

2. Be ready in 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 may come up with you, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain; the flocks and herds may not even graze in front of this mountain.'

3. No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain."

4. So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up Mount Sinai in the early morning as Yahweh had ordered.

4. So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

5. And Yahweh descended in a cloud and stood with him there and pronounced the name Yahweh.

5. And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

6. Then Yahweh passed before him and called out, 'Yahweh, Yahweh, God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in faithful love and constancy,

6. The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

7. maintaining his faithful love to thousands, forgiving fault, crime and sin, yet letting nothing go unchecked, and punishing the parent's fault in the children and in the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation!'

7. keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

8. Moses immediately bowed to the ground in worship,

8. And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9. then he said, 'If indeed I do enjoy your favour, please, my Lord, come with us, although they are an obstinate people; and forgive our faults and sins, and adopt us as your heritage.'

9. And he said, "If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance."

10. He then said, 'Look, I am now making a covenant: I shall work such wonders at the head of your whole people as have never been worked in any other country or nation, and all the people round you will see what Yahweh can do, for what I shall do through you will be awe-inspiring.

10. And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.

11. Mark, then, what I command you today. I am going to drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites before you.

11. "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

12. Take care you make no pact with the inhabitants of the country which you are about to enter, or they will prove a snare in your community.

12. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

13. You will tear down their altars, smash their cultic stones and cut down their sacred poles,

13. You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Ashe'rim

14. for you will worship no other god, since Yahweh's name is the Jealous One; he is a jealous God.

14. (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

15. Make no pact with the inhabitants of the country or, when they prostitute themselves to their own gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will partake of their sacrifice,

15. lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,

16. and then you will choose wives for your sons from among their daughters, and their daughters, prostituting themselves to their own gods, will induce your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

16. and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

17. 'You will not cast metal gods for yourself.

17. "You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

18. 'You will observe the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

18. "The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. 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 from Egypt.

19. 'All that first issues from the womb belongs to me: every male, every first-born of flock or herd.

19. All that opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and sheep.

20. But the first-born donkey you will redeem with an animal from the flock; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you will redeem, and no one will appear before me empty-handed.

20. The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21. 'For six days you will labour, but on the seventh day you will rest; you will stop work even during ploughing and harvesting.

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 will observe the feast of Weeks, of the first-fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of Ingathering at the close of the year.

22. And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23. 'Three times a year all your menfolk will appear before Lord Yahweh, God of Israel,

23. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

24. for I shall dispossess the nations before you and extend your frontiers, and no one will set his heart on your territory when you go away to appear before Yahweh your God three times a year.

24. For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

25. 'You will not offer the blood of my sacrificial victim with leavened bread, nor is the victim offered at the feast of Passover to be left until the following day.

25. "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning.

26. 'You will bring the best of the first-fruits of your soil to the house of Yahweh your God. 'You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'

26. The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

27. Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Put these words in writing, for they are the terms of the covenant which I have made with you and with Israel.'

27. And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

28. He stayed there with Yahweh for forty days and forty nights, eating and drinking nothing, and on the tablets he wrote the words of the covenant -- the Ten Words.

28. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he was coming down the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was radiant because he had been talking to him.

29. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

30. And when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin on his face was so radiant that they were afraid to go near him.

30. And when Aaron and all the people 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 rejoined him, and Moses talked to them,

31. But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

32. after which all the Israelites came closer, and he passed on to them all the orders that Yahweh had given to him on Mount Sinai.

32. And afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

33. Once Moses had finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.

33. And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face;

34. Whenever Moses went into Yahweh's presence to speak with him, he took the veil off until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what orders he had been given,

34. but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

35. and the Israelites would see Moses' face radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak to him next time.

35. the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses would put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.