God proclaims his name to Moses: merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love, yet not clearing the guilty. He renews the covenant and gives Moses new tablets. Moses' face shines.
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 , 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 clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children , and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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 , let my Lord , I pray thee, go 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 with thee.
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 , is a 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 , and make 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 the Lord GOD , the God of Israel .
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders : neither shall any man 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 leaven ; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning .
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God . Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk .
27 And the LORD said unto Moses , Write thou these words : for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel .
28 And he was there with the LORD 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 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses ' hand , when he came down from the mount , that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses , behold, the skin of his face shone ; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh : and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai .
33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face .
34 But when Moses went in 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 saw the face of Moses , that the skin of Moses ' face shone : and Moses put the vail upon his face again , until he went in to speak with him.