Dual Panel1The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I shall write on them the words which were on the first tablets which you broke.
2Be ready by morning, and then go up Mount Sinai, and present yourself to me there on the top.
3No one is to go up with you, no one must even be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor must flocks or herds graze within sight of that mountain.”
4So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first, and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, taking the two stone tablets in his hands.
5The LORD came down in the cloud, and, as Moses stood there in his presence, he pronounced the name “LORD”.
6He passed in front of Moses and proclaimed: “The LORD, the LORD, a God compassionate and gracious, long-suffering, ever faithful and true,
7remaining faithful to thousands, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin but without acquitting the guilty, one who punishes children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the iniquity of their fathers!”
8At once Moses bowed to the ground in worship.
9He said, “If I have indeed won your favour, Lord, then please go in our company. However stubborn a people they are, forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your own possession.”
10The LORD said: Here and now I am making a covenant. In full view of all your people I shall do such miracles as have never been performed in all the world or in any nation. All the peoples among whom you live shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I shall do for you.
11Observe all I command you this day; and I for my part shall drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
12Beware of making an alliance with the inhabitants of the land against which you are going, or they will prove a snare in your midst.
13You must demolish their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.
14You are not to bow in worship to any other god, for the LORD's name is the Jealous God, and a jealous God he is.
15Avoid any alliance with the inhabitants of the land, or, when they go wantonly after their gods and sacrifice to them, you, any one of you, may be invited to partake of their sacrifices,
16and marry your sons to their daughters, and when their daughters go wantonly after their gods, they may lead your sons astray too.
17Do not make yourselves gods of cast metal.
18You are to celebrate the pilgrim-feast of Unleavened Bread: for seven days, as I have commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because it was in Abib that you came out from Egypt.
19The first birth of every womb belongs to me, the males of all your herds, both cattle and sheep.
20The first birth of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. Every firstborn among your sons you must redeem, and no one is to come into my presence without an offering.
21For six days you may work, but on the seventh abstain from work; even at ploughing time and harvest you must cease work.
22You are to observe the pilgrim-feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the pilgrim-feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23Those three times a year all your males are to come into the presence of the Lord, the LORD the God of Israel;
24for after I have dispossessed the nations before you and extended your frontiers, there will be no danger from covetous neighbours when you go up those three times to enter the presence of the LORD your God.
25Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice at the same time as anything leavened; nor is any portion of the victim of the pilgrim-feast of Passover to remain overnight till morning.
26You must bring the choicest firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
27The LORD said to Moses, “Write these words down, because the covenant I make with you and with Israel is on those terms.”
28So Moses remained there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without food or drink. The LORD wrote down the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments, on the tablets.
29At length Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two stone tablets of the Testimony in his hands, and when he came down, he did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with the LORD.
30When Aaron and the Israelites saw how the skin of Moses' face shone, they were afraid to approach him.
31He called out to them, and Aaron and all the chiefs in the community turned towards him. Moses spoke to them,
32and after that all the Israelites drew near. He gave them all the commands with which the LORD had charged him on Mount Sinai.
33When Moses finished what he had to say, he put a veil over his face.
34But whenever he went in before the LORD to speak with him, he left the veil off until he came out. Then he would go out and tell the Israelites all the commands he had received.
35The Israelites would see how the skin of Moses' face shone, and he would put the veil back over his face until he went in again to speak with the LORD.