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Exodus

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two ta­bles of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these ta­bles the words that were in the first ta­bles, which thou brak­est. 2 And be ready in the morn­ing, and come up in the morn­ing unto mount Sinai, and pre­sent thy­self there to me in the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee, nei­ther let any man be seen through­out all the mount; nei­ther let the flocks nor herds feed be­fore that mount. 4 And he hewed two ta­bles of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up ear­ly in the morn­ing, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had com­mand­ed him, and took in his hand the two ta­bles of stone. 5 And the LORD de­scend­ed in the cloud, and stood with him there, and pro­claimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by be­fore him, and pro­claimed, The LORD, The LORD God, mer­ci­ful and gra­cious, long­suf­fer­ing, and abun­dant in good­ness and truth, 7 Keep­ing mer­cy for thou­sands, for­giv­ing in­iq­ui­ty and trans­gres­sion and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; vis­it­ing the in­iq­ui­ty of the fa­thers upon the chil­dren, and upon the children's chil­dren, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head to­ward the earth, and wor­shipped. 9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiff­necked peo­ple; and par­don our in­iq­ui­ty and our sin, and take us for thine in­her­i­tance. 10 And he said, Be­hold, I make a covenant: be­fore all thy peo­ple I will do mar­vels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any na­tion: and all the peo­ple among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a ter­ri­ble thing that I will do with thee. 11 Ob­serve thou that which I com­mand thee this day: be­hold, I drive out be­fore thee the Amor­ite, and the Canaan­ite, and the Hit­tite, and the Per­izzite, and the Hivite, and the Je­busite. 12 Take heed to thy­self, lest thou make a covenant with the in­hab­i­tants of the land whith­er thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13 But ye shall de­stroy their al­tars, break their im­ages, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt wor­ship no oth­er god: for the LORD, whose name is Jeal­ous, is a jeal­ous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the in­hab­i­tants of the land, and they go a whor­ing af­ter their gods, and do sac­ri­fice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sac­ri­fice; 16 And thou take of their daugh­ters unto thy sons, and their daugh­ters go a whor­ing af­ter their gods, and make thy sons go a whor­ing af­ter their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 18 The feast of un­leav­ened bread shalt thou keep. Sev­en days thou shalt eat un­leav­ened bread, as I com­mand­ed thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 19 All that openeth the ma­trix is mine; and ev­ery firstling among thy cat­tle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt re­deem with a lamb: and if thou re­deem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the first­born of thy sons thou shalt re­deem. And none shall ap­pear be­fore me emp­ty. 21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the sev­enth day thou shalt rest: in ear­ing time and in har­vest thou shalt rest. 22 And thou shalt ob­serve the feast of weeks, of the first­fruits of wheat har­vest, and the feast of in­gath­er­ing at the year's end. 23 Thrice in the year shall all your men chil­dren ap­pear be­fore the Lord GOD, the God of Is­rael. 24 For I will cast out the na­tions be­fore thee, and en­large thy bor­ders: nei­ther shall any man de­sire thy land, when thou shalt go up to ap­pear be­fore the LORD thy God thrice in the year. 25 Thou shalt not of­fer the blood of my sac­ri­fice with leav­en; nei­ther shall the sac­ri­fice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morn­ing. 26 The first of the first­fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for af­ter the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Is­rael. 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did nei­ther eat bread, nor drink wa­ter. And he wrote upon the ta­bles the words of the covenant, the ten com­mand­ments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two ta­bles of tes­ti­mo­ny in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the chil­dren of Is­rael saw Moses, be­hold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the con­gre­ga­tion re­turned unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And af­ter­ward all the chil­dren of Is­rael came nigh: and he gave them in com­mand­ment all that the LORD had spo­ken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And till Moses had done speak­ing with them, he put a vail on his face. 34 But when Moses went in be­fore the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, un­til he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the chil­dren of Is­rael that which he was com­mand­ed. 35 And the chil­dren of Is­rael saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, un­til he went in to speak with him.