Exodus 34:1-14

Legacy Standard Bible

Stone Tablets like the Former Ones

34 Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Carve 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 shattered. ² So be prepared 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. ^3 (D)And no man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen ^[b]anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain.” ⁴ So he carved out ^(E)two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand. ^5 (F)Then Yahweh descended in the cloud and stood there with him, and ^[c]He called upon the name of Yahweh. ⁶ Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, ^(G)compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and ^[d]truth; ⁷ who ^(H)keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He ^(I)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(J)visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸ And Moses made haste ^[e](K)to bow low toward the earth and worship. ⁹ And he said, “^(L)If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^[f](M)they are a stiff-necked people, and ^(N)pardon our iniquity and our sin, and ^(O)take us as Your own inheritance.”

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Israel

¹⁰ Then ^[g]God said, “Behold, ^(P)I am going to cut a covenant. Before all your people ^(Q)I will do wondrous deeds which have not been created in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^[h]among whom you live will see the working of Yahweh, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to do with you.

¹¹ “^[i]Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(R)I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (S)Beware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. ^13 (T)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ^[j](U)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(V)you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—