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    Exodus 34

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    Moses comes down from forty days and forty nights with a face so radiant that Aaron and Israel are afraid to approach him—and Moses, who has been speaking with the LORD, has not noticed a thing. A veil is soon required, though only when he is out among the people.

    The tablets and the namevv. 1–9

    The broken tablets are to have successors. Moses must chisel out two like the originals, rise early, and climb Mount Sinai alone; even sheep and cattle are kept away, making the mountain rather dramatically empty. The LORD descends in a cloud, proclaims His name, and passes before Moses with words of compassion, faithfulness, forgiveness, and punishment. Moses bows at once and asks that the LORD go with Israel, stiff-necked though it is.

    A covenant with some very particular edgesvv. 10–28

    The LORD promises wonders and the removal of the peoples before Israel, while warning against treaties, foreign gods, and marriages that would draw Israel after them. Then come the festivals, the Sabbath—even during plowing and harvest—the firstborn, the firstfruits, and the peculiar fate of a firstborn donkey: a lamb, or a broken neck. Moses is told to write the words down, and remains with the LORD for forty days and forty nights without bread or water. The tablets return bearing the covenant—the Ten Commandments, in a notably dry place for such a lengthy meeting.

    The veilvv. 29–35

    Moses comes down from Mount Sinai carrying the tablets, unaware that speaking with the LORD has made his face radiant. Aaron and Israel see it and are afraid to approach him, until Moses calls them back. He speaks, then covers his face with a veil; whenever he goes in before the LORD, the veil comes off, and whenever he comes out, the instructions are delivered and the veil goes back on. It is an admirably practical arrangement for a face that has become its own announcement.

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    1. Exod 34:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

    2. Exod 34:2Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.

    3. Exod 34:3No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

    4. Exod 34:4So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

    5. Exod 34:5And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.

    6. Exod 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

    7. Exod 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

    8. Exod 34:8Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

    9. Exod 34:9“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

    10. Exod 34:10And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

    11. Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    12. Exod 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

    13. Exod 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

    14. Exod 34:14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15. Exod 34:15Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

    16. Exod 34:16And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

    17. Exod 34:17You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

    18. Exod 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

    19. Exod 34:19The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.

    20. Exod 34:20You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

    21. Exod 34:21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

    22. Exod 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

    23. Exod 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

    24. Exod 34:24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

    25. Exod 34:25Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

    26. Exod 34:26Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

    27. Exod 34:27The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

    28. Exod 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

    29. Exod 34:29And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

    30. Exod 34:30Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.

    31. Exod 34:31But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

    32. Exod 34:32And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.

    33. Exod 34:33When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

    34. Exod 34:34But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

    35. Exod 34:35and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

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    • 6Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
    • 6Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
    • 6Psalms 103:8–13The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
    • 6Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
    • 6Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
    • 6Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
    • 6Numbers 14:17–19So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
    • 62 Chronicles 30:9For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
    • 6Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
    • 6Deuteronomy 5:10but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    • 6Ephesians 1:7–8In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
    • 7Exodus 20:5–6You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
    • 7Psalms 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
    • 7Deuteronomy 5:9–10You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
    • 10Deuteronomy 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
    • 10Psalms 77:14You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.

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