Exodus 34:1-9

New American Standard Bible

The Two Tablets Replaced

34 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself ^(A)two stone tablets like the former ones, and ^(B)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed. ²So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to ^(C)Mount Sinai, and ^[a]present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. ³And ^(D)no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen ^[b]anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.” ⁴So he cut out ^(E)two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵And ^(F)the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he ^[c]called upon the name of the Lord. ⁶Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, ^(G)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and ^[d]truth; ⁷who ^(H)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He ^(I)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(J)inflicting the ^[e]punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸And Moses hurried ^[f]^(K)to bow low toward the ground and worship. ⁹Then he said, “^(L)If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^[g]^(M)the people are so obstinate, and ^(N)pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and ^(O)take us as Your own ^[h]possession.”

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Footnotes

Exodus 34:2 Or place yourself before Me
Exodus 34:3 Lit on all
Exodus 34:5 Or called out with the name of the Lord
Exodus 34:6 Or trustworthiness
Exodus 34:7 I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing
Exodus 34:8 Lit and bowed...worshiped
Exodus 34:9 Lit it is a people stiff-necked
Exodus 34:9 Or inheritance

Exodus 34:29-35

New American Standard Bible

Moses’ Face Shines

²⁹And it came about, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the ^(A)two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that ^(B)the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. ³⁰So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and ^(C)they were afraid to approach him. ³¹Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. ³²Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had spoken ^[a]to him on Mount Sinai. ³³When Moses had finished speaking with them, ^(D)he put a veil over his face. ³⁴But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, ^(E)he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, ³⁵^(F)the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with Him.