Exodus 34
BasisBijbel
De nieuwe platte stenen van het verbond van God
34 De Heer zei tegen Mozes: "Hak twee platte stenen, hetzelfde als de eerste twee stenen. Dan zal Ik op die stenen de woorden schrijven die op de eerste twee platte stenen stonden die je kapot hebt gegooid. 2 Wees morgenochtend klaar en klim de berg Sinaï op. Kom daar bij Mij op de top van de berg. 3 Maar er mag niemand met je meekomen. Er mag zelfs niemand op de hele berg komen. Er mogen zelfs geen schapen, geiten of koeien grazen in de buurt van de berg."
4 Toen hakte Mozes twee platte stenen, hetzelfde als de eerste twee stenen. Vroeg in de ochtend klom hij de berg Sinaï op, zoals de Heer had bevolen. Hij had de twee platte stenen in zijn hand. 5 De Heer kwam naar beneden in een wolk en ging daar bij hem staan. 6 De Heer liep langs hem heen en riep:[a] "Ik ben de Heer! Ik ben vriendelijk en geduldig, liefdevol, vol medelijden en vol waarheid. 7 Ik ben vriendelijk en goed voor duizenden mensen en vergeef hen hun slechtheid en ongehoorzaamheid. Maar schuldige mensen zal Ik niet onschuldig verklaren. Als mensen Mij niet willen gehoorzamen, zal het slecht met hen gaan. Hun ongehoorzaamheid zal gevolgen hebben tot in de derde en vierde familie ná hen."
8 Mozes knielde haastig op de grond neer, boog zich diep en zei: 9 "Heer, ga alstublieft met ons mee, ook al is het volk koppig en ongehoorzaam. Vergeef ons alstublieft onze ongehoorzaamheid en onze slechtheid. Laat ons alstublieft uw eigen volk zijn." 10 De Heer antwoordde: "Ik zal een verbond met het volk sluiten. Jouw hele volk zal mijn wonderen zien. Wonderen zoals er nog nooit eerder ergens op aarde voor een volk zijn gedaan. Jouw hele volk zal zien wat Ik doe en zal diep onder de indruk zijn. 11 Maar jullie moeten doen wat Ik jullie vandaag beveel.
Ik zal voor jullie de Amorieten, de Kanaänieten, de Hetieten, de Perezieten, de Hevieten en de Jebusieten wegjagen. 12 Let er op dat jullie geen enkel verbond met hen sluiten. Want als jullie dat wel doen, zal het slecht met jullie aflopen. 13 Maar jullie moeten hun altaren afbreken, hun godenbeelden kapot slaan en hun heilige palen omhakken. 14 Want Ik ben een jaloers God en Ik wil niet dat jullie andere goden aanbidden. 15 Sluit geen enkel verbond met de bewoners van het land! Want zij aanbidden andere goden en brengen daar offers aan. En ze zouden ook jullie uitnodigen voor hun afgodenfeesten en jullie zouden dan van hun offers mee-eten. 16 En als jullie zonen met hun dochters zouden trouwen, zouden jullie zonen ontrouw aan Mij worden doordat hun vrouwen andere goden aanbidden. Want de vrouwen zouden jullie zonen verleiden om ontrouw aan Mij te worden en hun goden te gaan aanbidden. 17 Jullie mogen geen godenbeelden maken.
18 Verder moeten jullie het Feest van de Ongegiste Broden vieren. Zeven dagen moeten jullie ongegist brood eten, zoals Ik jullie heb bevolen. Vier het in de week die Ik heb aangegeven, in de maand Abib. Want in die maand zijn jullie uit Egypte vertrokken.
19 Alle eerstgeboren dieren zijn voor Mij: alle eerstgeboren mannetjes-dieren van de koeien, schapen en geiten zijn van Mij. 20 Maar elk eerstgeboren ezelsjong moeten jullie vrijkopen met een schaap of geit. Als je het ezeltje niet vrijkoopt, moet je het de nek breken. Maar elke eerste zoon die in een gezin geboren wordt, moeten jullie vrijkopen. En jullie mogen nooit zonder geschenk bij Mij komen, maar jullie moeten Mij een offer brengen.
21 Jullie mogen zes dagen werken. Maar op de zevende dag moeten jullie uitrusten. Ook in de ploegtijd en in de oogsttijd moeten jullie je aan de rustdag houden.
22 Als jullie het eerste deel van de tarweoogst binnenhalen, moeten jullie het Wekenfeest vieren. En aan het eind van de oogst, aan het eind van het jaar, moeten jullie het oogstfeest vieren. (Dat is het Loofhuttenfeest.)
23 Dus drie keer per jaar moeten alle mannen bij Mij komen, de God van Israël. 24 Ik zal de volken voor jullie wegjagen en Ik zal jullie een steeds groter gebied geven om in te wonen. In de tijd dat jullie naar Mij toe komen voor de feesten, zal niemand van die volken jullie land aanvallen.
25 Jullie mogen bij het bloed van de vlees-offers niets offeren dat met gist is klaargemaakt. En van het offer van het Paasfeest mag niets overblijven tot de volgende ochtend.
26 Jullie moeten het beste van het eerste deel van de oogst in mijn heiligdom brengen.
Jullie mogen een jong geitje niet koken in de melk van zijn moeder."
27 De Heer zei tegen Mozes: "Schrijf dit op. Want dit zijn de regels van het verbond dat Ik met jou en met Israël sluit." 28 En Mozes was daar 40 dagen en 40 nachten bij de Heer. Brood at hij niet en water dronk hij niet. En hij schreef op de platte stenen de regels van het verbond, de Tien Leefregels.
Mozes' gezicht straalt
29 Daarna daalde Mozes de berg Sinaï weer af. De twee platte stenen van het verbond had hij in zijn handen. Hij wist niet dat de huid van zijn gezicht straalde doordat hij met de Heer had gesproken. 30 Toen Aäron en de Israëlieten Mozes zagen, zagen ze dat de huid van zijn gezicht straalde. Daarom durfden ze niet dichterbij te komen. 31 Maar Mozes riep hen bij zich. Aäron en de leiders van het volk kwamen naar hem toe en Mozes sprak met hen. 32 Daarna kwamen alle Israëlieten naar hem toe. En hij leerde hun alle bevelen die de Heer hem op de berg Sinaï had gegeven. 33 Mozes had een doek voor zijn gezicht gedaan. 34 Maar als Mozes bij de Heer was om met Hem te spreken, deed hij de doek af. Als hij weer naar buiten ging om de Israëlieten te zeggen wat de Heer had bevolen, deed hij de doek weer voor zijn gezicht. 35 Steeds als de Israëlieten zagen dat de huid van Mozes' gezicht straalde, deed Mozes de doek weer voor zijn gezicht. Maar als hij weer naar binnen ging om met Hem te spreken, deed hij de doek af.
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:6 In die tijd lieten koningen en andere belangrijke mensen iemand voor zich uit lopen die de naam riep van de persoon die eraan kwam. Ook riep hij wat die persoon voor belangrijke dingen had gedaan. God doet hier net zoiets. Hij roept zijn naam en wie Hij is.
Exodus 34
New King James Version
Moses Makes New Tablets(A)
34 And the Lord said to Moses, (B)“Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and (C)I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. 2 So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there (D)on the top of the mountain. 3 And no man shall (E)come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”
4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
5 Now the Lord descended in the (F)cloud and stood with him there, and (G)proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord (H)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in (I)goodness and (J)truth, 7 (K)keeping mercy for thousands, (L)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (M)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8 So Moses made haste and (N)bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, (O)let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a (P)stiff-necked[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as (Q)Your inheritance.”
The Covenant Renewed(R)
10 And He said: “Behold, (S)I make a covenant. Before all your people I will (T)do [b]marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is (U)an awesome thing that I will do with you. 11 (V)Observe what I command you this day. Behold, (W)I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12 (X)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall (Y)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (Z)cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship (AA)no other god, for the Lord, whose (AB)name is Jealous, is a (AC)jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they (AD)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them (AE)invites you and you (AF)eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (AG)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (AH)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
17 (AI)“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.
18 “The Feast of (AJ)Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the (AK)month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
19 (AL)“All [c]that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. 20 But (AM)the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.
“And none shall appear before Me (AN)empty-handed.
21 (AO)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
22 “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.
23 (AP)“Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. 24 For I will (AQ)cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25 “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, (AR)nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
26 (AS)“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write (AT)these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 (AU)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And (AV)He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the [d]Ten Commandments.
The Shining Face of Moses
29 Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the (AW)two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that (AX)the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, (AY)and he gave them as commandments all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put (AZ)a veil on his face. 34 But (BA)whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:9 stubborn
- Exodus 34:10 wonderful acts
- Exodus 34:19 the firstborn
- Exodus 34:28 Lit. Ten Words
Exodus 34
New International Version
The New Stone Tablets
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones,(A) and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets,(B) which you broke.(C) 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.(D) Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain;(E) not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
4 So Moses chiseled(F) out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.(G) 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud(H) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.(I) 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate(J) and gracious God, slow to anger,(K) abounding in love(L) and faithfulness,(M) 7 maintaining love to thousands,(N) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(O) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(P) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(Q)
8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. 9 “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor(R) in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us.(S) Although this is a stiff-necked(T) people, forgive our wickedness and our sin,(U) and take us as your inheritance.”(V)
10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant(W) with you. Before all your people I will do wonders(X) never before done in any nation in all the world.(Y) 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(Z) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.(AA) 12 Be careful not to make a treaty(AB) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare(AC) among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a](AD) 14 Do not worship any other god,(AE) for the Lord, whose name(AF) is Jealous, is a jealous God.(AG)
15 “Be careful not to make a treaty(AH) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute(AI) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.(AJ) 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives(AK) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,(AL) they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 “Do not make any idols.(AM)
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.(AN) For seven days eat bread made without yeast,(AO) as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(AP) for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 “The first offspring(AQ) 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.(AR) Redeem all your firstborn sons.(AS)
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(AT)
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;(AU) even during the plowing season and harvest(AV) you must rest.
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits(AW) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering(AX) at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times(AY) a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations(AZ) before you and enlarge your territory,(BA) 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,(BB) and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.(BC)
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(BD) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”(BE)
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write(BF) down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant(BG) with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights(BH) without eating bread or drinking water.(BI) And he wrote on the tablets(BJ) the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.(BK)
The Radiant Face of Moses
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai(BL) with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands,(BM) he was not aware that his face was radiant(BN) 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(BO) came back to him, and he spoke to them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands(BP) the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil(BQ) 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.(BR) Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn
Exodus 34
English Standard Version
Moses Makes New Tablets
34 The Lord said to Moses, (A)“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, (B)and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, (C)which you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me (D)on the top of the mountain. 3 No (E)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.” 4 So 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. 5 The Lord (F)descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and (G)proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (H)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (I)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (J)love and faithfulness, 7 (K)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (L)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (M)who will by no means clear the guilty, (N)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly (O)bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please (P)let the Lord go in the midst of us, for (Q)it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for (R)your inheritance.”
The Covenant Renewed
10 And he said, “Behold, (S)I am making a covenant. Before all your people (T)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 (U)awesome thing that I will do with you.
11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, (V)I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 (W)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a (X)snare in your midst. 13 You shall (Y)tear down their altars and (Z)break their pillars and cut down their (AA)Asherim 14 (for (AB)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 (AC)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they (AD)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and (AE)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (AF)their daughters for your sons, and their daughters (AG)whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
17 (AH)“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
18 (AI)“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in (AJ)the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 (AK)All that open the womb are mine, all your male[b] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 20 The (AL)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 (AM)none shall appear before me empty-handed.
21 (AN)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 (AO)You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. 23 (AP)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will (AQ)cast out nations before you and (AR)enlarge your borders; (AS)no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25 (AT)“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, (AU)or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. 26 (AV)The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. (AW)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.”
27 And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words (AX)I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 (AY)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he (AZ)wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[c]
The Shining Face of Moses
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with (BA)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 (BB)shone because he had been talking with God.[d] 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face (BC)shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he (BD)commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a (BE)veil over his face.
34 Whenever Moses (BF)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, 35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was (BG)shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation
- Exodus 34:19 Septuagint, Theodotion, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Exodus 34:28 Hebrew the ten words
- Exodus 34:29 Hebrew him
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