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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 breakest.
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.
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