Dual Panel1THE LORD said to Moses, Cut two tables of stone like the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.
2Be ready and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.
3And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let flocks or herds feed before that mountain.
4So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first, and he rose up early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
5And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth,
7Keeping mercy {and} loving-kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but Who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.
8And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth and worshiped.
9And he said, If now I have found favor {and} loving-kindness in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray You, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.
10And the Lord said, Behold, I lay down [afresh the terms of the mutual agreement between Israel and Me] a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels (wonders, miracles) such as have not been wrought {or} 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 a terrible thing [fearful and full of awe] that I will do with you.
11Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, Canaanite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite.
12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant {or} mutual agreement with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.
13But you shall destroy their altars, dash in pieces their pillars (obelisks, images), and cut down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah];
14For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, is a jealous (impassioned) God,
15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his food sacrificed to idols,
16And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.
17You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.
18The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19All the males that first open the womb among your livestock are Mine, whether ox or sheep.
20But the firstling of a donkey [an unclean beast] you shall redeem with a lamb {or} kid, and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none of you shall appear before Me empty-handed.
21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].
22You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
23Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
24For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire [and molest] your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
25You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
26The first of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
27And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words, for after the purpose {and} character of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
28Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone {and} sent forth beams by reason of his speaking with the Lord.
30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they feared to come near him.
31But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and [he] talked with them.
32Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all the Lord had said to him in Mount Sinai.
33And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and told the Israelites what he was commanded.
35The Israelites saw the face of Moses, how the skin of it shone; and Moses put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with God.