¹⁰ Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant^(A) with you. Before all your people I will do wonders^(B) never before done in any nation in all the world.^(C) The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. ¹¹ Obey what I command^(D) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^{(E) 12} Be careful not to make a treaty^(F) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare^(G) among you. ¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{[a](H) 14} Do not worship any other god,^(I) for the Lord, whose name^(J) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(K)

¹⁵ “Be careful not to make a treaty^(L) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^(M) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{(N) 16} And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(O) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(P) they will lead your sons to do the same.

¹⁷ “Do not make any idols.^(Q)

¹⁸ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.^(R) For seven days eat bread made without yeast,^(S) as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,^(T) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ “The first offspring^(U) of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. ²⁰ Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.^(V) Redeem all your firstborn sons.^(W)

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.^(X)

²¹ “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;^(Y) even during the plowing season and harvest^(Z) you must rest.

²² “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits^(AA) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering^(AB) at the turn of the year.^{[b] 23} Three times^(AC) a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. ²⁴ I will drive out nations^(AD) before you and enlarge your territory,^(AE) and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

²⁵ “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast,^(AF) and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.^(AG)

²⁶ “Bring the best of the firstfruits^(AH) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”^(AI)

²⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write^(AJ) down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant^(AK) with you and with Israel.” ²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights^(AL) without eating bread or drinking water.^(AM) And he wrote on the tablets^(AN) the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^(AO)

The Radiant Face of Moses

²⁹ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai^(AP) with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands,^(AQ) he was not aware that his face was radiant^(AR) because he had spoken with the Lord. ³⁰ When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹ But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community^(AS) came back to him, and he spoke to them. ³² Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands^(AT) the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.

³³ When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil^(AU) over his face. ³⁴ But whenever he entered the Lord’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, ³⁵ they saw that his face was radiant.^(AV) Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.

Judas Hangs Himself

27 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.^{(A) 2} So they bound him, led him away and handed him over^(B) to Pilate the governor.^(C)

³ When Judas, who had betrayed him,^(D) saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver^(E) to the chief priests and the elders. ⁴ “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”^(F)

⁵ So Judas threw the money into the temple^(G) and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.^(H)

⁶ The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” ⁷ So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. ⁸ That is why it has been called the Field of Blood^(I) to this day. ⁹ Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:^(J) “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, ¹⁰ and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”^[a](K)