Exodus 34:1-23

Exodus 34:1-23

[1] And the LORD  said  unto Moses,  Hew  thee two  tables  of stone  like unto the first:  and I will write  upon these tables  the words  that were in the first  tables,  which thou brakest.  [2] And be ready  in the morning,  and come up  in the morning  unto mount  Sinai,  and present  thyself there to me in the top  of the mount.  [3] And no man  shall come up  with thee, neither  let any man  be seen  throughout all the mount;  neither let the flocks  nor herds  feed  before  that mount.  [4] And he hewed  two  tables  of stone  like unto the first;  and Moses  rose up early  in the morning,  and went up  unto mount  Sinai,  as the LORD  had commanded  him, and took  in his hand  the two  tables  of stone.  [5] And the LORD  descended  in the cloud,  and stood  with him there, and proclaimed  the name  of the LORD.  [6] And the LORD  passed by  before him,  and proclaimed,  The LORD,  God,  merciful  and gracious,  longsuffering,  and abundant  in goodness  and truth,  [7] Keeping  mercy  for thousands,  forgiving  iniquity  and transgression  and sin,  and that will by no means  the guilty; visiting  the iniquity  of the fathers  upon the children,  children, unto the third  and to the fourth  [8] And Moses  made haste,  and bowed his head  toward the earth,  and worshipped.  [9] And he said,  If now I have found  grace  in thy sight,  O Lord,  among  us; for it is a stiffnecked  people;  and pardon  our iniquity  and our sin,  and take us for thine inheritance.  [10] And he said,  Behold, I make  a covenant:  before all thy people  I will do  marvels,  such as have not been done  in all the earth,  nor in any nation:  and all the people  among  which thou art shall see  the work  of the LORD:  for it is a terrible thing  that I will do  [11] Observe  thou that which I command  thee this day:  behold, I 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, lest thou make  a covenant  with the inhabitants  of the land  whither thou goest,  lest it be for a snare  in the midst  of thee: [13] But ye shall destroy  their altars,  break  their images,  and cut down  their groves:  [14] For thou shalt worship  no other  god:  for the LORD,  whose name  is Jealous,  God:  [15] Lest thou make  a covenant  with the inhabitants  of the land,  and they go a whoring  after  their gods,  and do sacrifice  unto their gods,  and one call  thee, and thou eat  of his sacrifice;  [16] And thou take  of their daughters  unto thy sons,  and their daughters  go a whoring  after  their gods,  thy sons  go a whoring  after  their gods.  [17] Thou shalt make  thee no molten  gods.  [18] The feast  of unleavened bread  shalt thou keep.  Seven  days  thou shalt eat  unleavened bread,  as I commanded  thee, in the time  of the month  Abib:  for in the month  Abib  thou camest out  from Egypt.  [19] All that openeth  the matrix  is mine; and every firstling  among thy cattle,  whether ox  or sheep,  that is male  . [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  me empty.  [21] Six  days  thou shalt work,  but on the seventh  day  thou shalt rest:  in earing time  and in harvest  thou shalt rest.  [22] And thou shalt observe  the feast  of weeks,  of the firstfruits  of wheat  harvest,  and the feast  of ingathering  at the year's  end.  [23] Thrice  in the year  shall all your men children  appear  before  GOD,  the God  of Israel.