34 The Lord told Moses, “Prepare two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write upon them the same commands that were on the tablets you broke. ² Be ready in the morning to come up into Mount Sinai and present yourself to me on the top of the mountain. ³ No one shall come with you and no one must be anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds feed close to the mountain.”

⁴ So Moses took two tablets of stone like the first ones, and was up early and climbed Mount Sinai, as the Lord had told him to, taking the two stone tablets in his hands.

^5-6 Then the Lord descended in the form of a pillar of cloud and stood there with him, and passed in front of him and announced the meaning of his name.^[a] “I am Jehovah, the merciful and gracious God,” he said, “slow to anger and rich in steadfast love and truth. ⁷ I, Jehovah, show this steadfast love to many thousands by forgiving their sins;^[b] or else I refuse to clear the guilty, and require that a father’s sins be punished in the sons and grandsons, and even later generations.”

⁸ Moses fell down before the Lord and worshiped. ⁹ And he said, “If it is true that I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, then please go with us to the Promised Land; yes, it is an unruly, stubborn people, but pardon our iniquity and our sins, and accept us as your own.”