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) Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.(D) Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 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.”

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) Then the Lord came down in the cloud(H) and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.(I) 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) 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)

Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. “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

  1. Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
  2. Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn

重做法版(A)

34 耶和華對摩西說:“你要鑿出兩塊石版,好像先前的一樣,我要把先前寫在你摔碎了的石版上的字寫在這兩塊石版上。 早晨之前,你要預備好了;到早晨的時候,你要上到西奈山來,在山頂上站在我面前。 誰也不准同你一起上來,整個山都不准有人出現,也不准牛羊在這山前吃草。” 摩西就鑿了兩塊石版,好像先前的一樣。他一早起來,照著耶和華吩咐他的,上到西奈山去,手裡拿著兩塊石版。 耶和華在雲彩中降下來,與摩西一同站在那裡,並且宣告耶和華的名字。 耶和華在摩西面前經過,並且宣告說:“耶和華,耶和華,是有憐憫有恩典的 神,不輕易發怒,並且有豐盛的慈愛和誠實, 為千千萬萬人留下慈愛,赦免罪孽、過犯和罪惡。一定要清除罪,追討罪孽自父及子至孫,直到三四代。” 摩西急忙俯首在地敬拜, 說:“主啊,我若是在你眼前蒙恩,求我主與我們同行,因為這是硬著頸項的人民。又求你赦免我們的罪孽和我們的罪惡,把我們當作你的產業。”

重新立約(B)

10 耶和華說:“看哪,我要立約,我要在你全體的人民面前作奇妙的事,是在全地萬國中沒有行過的。在你四周的萬民都必看見耶和華的作為,因為我向你所行的是可畏懼的事。 11 我今天吩咐你的,你務要遵守。看哪,我要把亞摩利人、迦南人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,從你面前趕逐出去。 12 你要小心,不可與你所去的那地的居民立約,恐怕這事在你中間成為陷阱。 13 他們的祭壇你們卻要拆毀,他們的柱像你們要打碎,他們的亞舍拉你們要砍下。 14 你不可敬拜別的神,因為耶和華是忌邪的 神,他名為忌邪者。 15 恐怕你與那地的居民立約,他們隨從自己的神行邪淫,給自己的神獻祭的時候,有人叫你,你就吃他的祭物; 16 又恐怕你給你的兒子娶他們的女兒為妻,他們的女兒隨從自己的神行邪淫的時候,使你的兒子也隨從她們的神行邪淫。 17 你不可為自己鑄造神像。

18 “你要守除酵節,要照著我吩咐你的,在亞筆月內所定的時期吃無酵餅七天,因為你是在亞筆月從埃及出來的。 19 凡是頭胎的都是我的;你的牲畜中,無論是牛或羊,凡是公的和頭生的,都是我的。 20 頭生的驢,你要用羊代贖,如果不代贖,就要打斷牠的頸項。你所有頭胎的兒子,你都要代贖出來。沒有人可以空手見我。

21 “你六日要工作,但第七天你要休息,在耕種和收割的時候,也要休息。 22 在收割初熟麥子的時候,你要守七七節;在年底,你要過收藏節。 23 你所有的男子,都要一年三次去見主耶和華以色列的 神。 24 我要把列國從你面前趕出去,擴張你的境界;你一年三次上去面見耶和華你的 神的時候,必沒有人貪圖你的地。

25 “你不可把我祭物的血和有酵的餅一同獻上,逾越節的祭物也不可留到早晨。 26 你要把你地裡最早生產的初熟之物送到耶和華你的 神的殿裡。不可用羊羔母的奶去煮羊羔。”

27 耶和華對摩西說:“你要把這些話寫上,因為我是按著這些話與你和以色列人立約的。” 28 摩西在那裡與耶和華在一起共四十晝夜,不吃飯,也不喝水。他把這約的話寫在兩塊版上,這就是十誡。

摩西從山上下來

29 摩西從西奈山下來的時候,手裡拿著兩塊法版;摩西從山上下來的時候,不知道自己的臉皮因為與耶和華談過話而發光。 30 亞倫和全體以色列人看見了摩西,見他臉上發光,就害怕接近他。 31 摩西叫他們過來,於是,亞倫和會眾中所有的首領才回到摩西那裡去,摩西就與他們談話。 32 以後,全體以色列人都近前來,摩西就把耶和華在西奈山上與他所說的一切話都吩咐他們。 33 摩西和他們說完了話,就用帕子蒙上自己的臉。 34 每逢摩西進到耶和華面前與他談話的時候,就把帕子揭去,直到他出來。他出來了,就把耶和華吩咐他的對以色列人說。 35 以色列人看見摩西的臉,見他的臉皮發光。摩西再用帕子蒙上自己的臉,直到他進去和耶和華說話為止。

34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

27 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

34 But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.