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Chapter 34
1 And after this he said: Hew you two tables of stone like unto the former, and I will write upon them the words which were in the tables, which you broke.
2 Be ready in the morning, that you may forthwith go up into mount Sinai, and you shall stand with me upon the top of the mount.
3 Let no man go up with you: and let not any man be seen throughout all the mount: neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over against it.
4 Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before: and rising very early he went up into the mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.
5 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
6 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
7 Who keep mercy unto thousands: who take away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before you. Who render the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren, unto the third and fourth generation.
8 And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring,
9 Said: If I have found grace in your sight: O Lord, I beseech you, that you will go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people,) and take away our iniquities and sin, and possess us.
10 The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all. I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nation: that this people, in the midst of whom you art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do.
11 Observe all things which this day I command you: I myself will drive out before your face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.
12 Beware you never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin:
13 But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:
14 Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous, he is a jealous God.
15 Make no covenant with the men of those countries lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call you to eat of the things sacrificed.
16 Neither shall you take of their daughters a wife for your son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make your sons also to commit fornication with their gods.
17 You shall not make to yourself any molten gods.
18 You shall keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the springtime you came out from Egypt.
19 All of the male kind, that opens the womb, shall be mine. Of all beasts, both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine.
20 The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a sheep: but if you will not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of your sons you shall redeem: neither shall you appear before me empty.
21 Six days shall you work, the seventh day you shall cease to plough, and to reap.
22 You shall keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of your wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returns that all things are laid in.
23 Three times in a year all your males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel.
24 For when I shall have taken away the nations from your face, and shall have enlarged your borders, no man shall lie in wait against your land when you shall go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord your God thrice in a year.
25 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven: neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Lord.
26 The first of the fruits of your ground you shall offer in the house of the Lord your God. you shall not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
27 And the Lord said to Moses: Write these words by which I have made a covenant both with you and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.
29 And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.
30 And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
31 And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them.
32 And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord in mount Sinai.
33 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.
34 But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.
35 And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.