1The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. (出32:19; 出34:28; 申10:1; 申10:2; 申10:4)2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. (出19:20)3No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” (出19:12; 出19:21)4So Moses cut two tablets 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 tablets of stone.5The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. (出33:19; 民11:25; 王上8:10)6The 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, (出22:27; 民14:18; 代下30:9; 尼9:17; 诗57:10; 诗86:15; 诗103:8; 诗108:4; 诗111:4; 诗112:4; 诗116:5; 诗145:8; 珥2:13)7keeping steadfast love for thousands,[1] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” (出20:5; 出23:21; 申5:9; 申5:10; 书24:19; 伯10:14; 诗103:3; 诗130:4; 耶32:18; 但9:4; 但9:9; 鸿1:3; 约一1:9)8And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. (出4:31; 出12:27)9And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” (出32:9; 出33:15; 申32:9; 诗28:9; 诗33:12; 诗78:62; 诗94:14; 耶10:16; 亚2:12)
The Covenant Renewed
10And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created 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 an awesome thing that I will do with you. (出34:27; 申4:32; 申5:2; 申10:21; 申29:1; 书6:20; 书10:12; 撒下7:23; 诗77:14; 诗78:12; 诗145:6; 赛64:3)11“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (出13:5)12Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. (出23:32; 出23:33; 申7:2; 书23:12; 士2:2)13You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (出23:24; 申7:5; 申12:3; 申16:21; 士2:2; 士6:25; 王下18:4; 王下23:14; 代下31:1; 代下34:3)14(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), (出20:3; 出20:5)15lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, (出34:12; 利17:7; 利20:5; 民25:2; 申31:16; 士2:17; 诗106:28; 耶3:9; 结6:9; 林前8:4; 林前8:7; 林前8:10; 林前10:27)16and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. (出34:15; 申7:3; 王上11:2; 拉9:2; 尼13:25)17“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal. (出32:4; 出32:8; 利19:4; 申27:15)18“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 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. (出12:15; 出13:4)19All that open the womb are mine, all your male[2] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. (出13:2)20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed. (出13:13; 出23:15; 民18:15; 申16:16)21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. (出20:9)22You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. (出23:16; 申16:10; 申16:13)23Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. (出23:14; 出23:17; 申16:16)24For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year. (出23:27; 出33:2; 申7:1; 申12:20; 申19:8; 诗78:55; 诗80:8; 箴16:7)25“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. (出12:8; 出12:10)26The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” (出23:19; 申14:21)27And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” (出34:10)28So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[3] (出24:18; 出31:18; 出32:16; 出34:1; 申4:13; 申10:2; 申10:4)
The Shining Face of Moses
29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets 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.[4] (出32:15; 太17:2; 林后3:7)30Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. (出34:29)31But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.32Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. (出24:3)33And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. (林后3:13)34Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, (林后3:16)35the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him. (出34:29)