Exodus 34:10-28
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Covenant Repeated
10 The Lord said,
See, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will do marvelous things such as have never been created anywhere on earth or in any nation. So all the people who are around you will see the work of the Lord. For it is an awe-inspiring thing that I will do for you. 11 Observe what I command you this day. Watch me as I drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 Be careful that you do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will be a trap in your midst. 13 But you must break down their altars and smash their sacred memorial stones to pieces, and you must cut down their Asherah poles.[a] 14 So you must worship no other god. For the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.[b] 15 Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, so that they can prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods. If you do, they will invite you to eat their sacrifices, 16 and they will invite you to take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters will prostitute themselves and make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods. 17 You shall not make any idols[c] for yourselves.
The Covenant Festivals
18 You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.[d] For seven days you are to eat bread without yeast, as I commanded you. Eat it at the time appointed in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.
19 The firstborn of every mother[e] is mine—the firstborn from all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle and sheep. 20 The firstborn of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not want to redeem it, then you must break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you must redeem. No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even in plowing time and in harvest time you must rest.
22 You are to observe the Festival of Weeks[f] with the first ripe produce from the wheat harvest.
Observe the Festival of Ingathering[g] at the year’s end.
23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before God the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 Because I will drive out nations before you and expand your borders, no one will covet your land when you go up to be in the presence of[h] the Lord, your God, three times a year.
25 You shall not offer leavened bread along with the blood of my sacrifices. Nothing from the sacrifice of the Festival of the Passover is to be left over until morning. 26 You are to bring the best of the firstfruits from your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
You shall not boil a baby goat in its mother’s milk.
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for these are the words with which I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[i]
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- Exodus 34:13 Asherah poles were representations of the goddess Asherah. They may have been living trees or poles carved from tree trunks.
- Exodus 34:14 In God jealousy is a demand for exclusive loyalty. He can tolerate no other gods.
- Exodus 34:17 The Hebrew word used here for idol refers to idols cast out of metal, but here it may simply be used as a generic name for all idols.
- Exodus 34:18 The week following the Passover in spring
- Exodus 34:19 Literally every opener of the womb. Jewish tradition pays more attention to the firstborn of fathers.
- Exodus 34:22 Also called Pentecost or Harvest or Reaping
- Exodus 34:22 Also called Tabernacles or Booths or Shelters
- Exodus 34:24 Literally see the face of
- Exodus 34:28 Literally the Hebrew refers to Ten Words not Ten Commandments.
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