Exodus 33-34New King James Version (NKJV)
The Command to Leave Sinai
33 Then the Lord said to Moses,
“Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have
brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ 2 And
I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the
Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and
the Jebusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing
with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on
the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
4 And when the people heard this bad
news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 5 For
the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel,
‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your
midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments,
that I may know what to do to you.’” 6 So the
children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
Moses Meets with the Lord
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it
outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting.
And it came to pass that everyone who sought
the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside
the camp. 8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to
the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man
stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone
into the tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass, when
Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and
stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked
with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of
cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose
and worshiped, each man in his tent door. 11 So
the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young
man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
The Promise of God’s Presence
12 Then Moses said to the Lord,
“See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom
You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have
also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now therefore, I
pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may
know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this
nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My Presence will
go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your
Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from
here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your
people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall
be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon
the face of the earth.”
17 So the Lord said to
Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found
grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”
18 And he said, “Please, show me Your
glory.”
19 Then He said, “I will make all My
goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of
the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious,
and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But
He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” 21 And
the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the
rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by,
that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand
while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand,
and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Moses Makes New Tablets
34 And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut
two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write
on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets
which you broke. 2 So be ready in the morning, and
come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the
top of the mountain. 3 And no man shall come up
with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither
flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”
4 So he cut two tablets of stone like
the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went
up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him; and he took in his
hand the two tablets of stone.
5 Now the Lord descended in
the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of
the Lord. 6 And the Lord passed
before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means
clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8 So Moses made haste and bowed his
head toward the earth, and worshiped. 9 Then he
said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go
among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
The Covenant Renewed
10 And He said: “Behold, I make a
covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done
in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall
see the work of the Lord. For it is an awesome thing that
I will do with you. 11 Observe what I command you
this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the
Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the
Jebusite. 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a
snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their
altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden
images 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for
the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make
sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you
eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of his
daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and
make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
17 “You shall make no molded gods for
yourselves.
18 “The Feast of Unleavened Bread you
shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in
the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out
from Egypt.
19 “All that open the womb are Mine,
and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or
sheep. 20 But the firstborn of a donkey you shall
redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you
shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.
“And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.
21 “Six days you shall work, but on
the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
22 “And you shall observe the Feast
of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at
the year’s end.
23 “Three times in the year all your
men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. 24 For
I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will
any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your
God three times in the year.
25 “You shall not offer the blood of
My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover
be left until morning.
26 “The first of the firstfruits of
your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You
shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then the Lord said to
Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have
made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he
was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate
bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant,
the Ten Commandments.[a]
The Shining Face of Moses
29 Now it was so, when Moses came
down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in
Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that
the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. 30 So
when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 Then
Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned
to him; and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward
all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that
the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And
when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. 34 But
whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would
take the veil off until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the
children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. 35 And
whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’
face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in
to speak with Him.
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