New Tablets and the Renewal of the Covenant

1 And the Lord said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 And be ready in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and stand there before Me on the top of the mountain. 3 No one shall go up with you; let no one be seen anywhere on the mountain, and let no sheep or oxen graze in front of that mountain. 4 And he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and Moses got up early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took two tablets of stone in his hand. 5 And the Lord was revealed in the cloud, and He stood with him there, and He proclaimed the Name of the Lord. 6 And the Lord made His Shekinah pass before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping goodness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sin. He forgives those who return to His Torah,⁠a but does not let those who do not return go unpunished; punishing the guilt of the fathers on rebellious children and children's children, to the third and the fourth generation. 8 And Moses hurried, and bowed down to the ground and worshiped. 9 And he said, If I have now found mercy before You, Lord, please let the Shekinah of the Lord go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; but forgive our guilt and our sin, and take us as Your possession. 10 And He said, Look, I am making a covenant: before all your people I will do wonders that have never been created in all the earth or among any of the peoples; and all the peoples among whom you live shall see the work of the Lord; for what I will do with you is awesome. 11 Observe what I command you today. Look, I will drive out ahead of you the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, or it will become a stumbling block among you: 13 but you shall destroy their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their sacred groves; 14 for you shall not bow down to the idols of the peoples; for the Lord, whose Name is Zealous, is a zealous God. 15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, or they will go astray after their idols and offer sacrifices to their idols, and they will invite you, and you will eat of their sacrifices, 16 and you will take some of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters will go astray after their idols and make your sons go astray after their idols. 17 You shall not make cast-metal gods for yourself. 18 You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. 19 All that opens the womb is Mine; all the males of your cattle you shall sanctify, the firstborn of oxen and of sheep. 20 But the firstborn of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, you shall destroy it. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. And no one shall appear before Me empty-handed. 21 For six days you shall labor, and on the seventh day you shall rest; in the time of sowing and in harvest you shall rest. 22 And you shall keep the feast of Weeks, of the first of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. 23 Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Master of the World, the Lord God of Israel. 24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times a year. 25 You shall not offer the blood of My Passover with leaven, nor shall the fat of the sacrifices of the Passover feast be left outside the altar until morning. 26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the sanctuary of the Lord your God. You shall not eat meat with milk. 27 And the Lord said to Moses, Write down these statements, for in accordance with these statements I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.⁠b 28 And he was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water; and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

Moses Returns with a Radiant Face

29 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know how great the splendor of the glory of his face had become while He spoke with him. 30 And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and look, the splendor of the glory of his face was great, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation came back to him, and Moses spoke with them. 32 And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34 But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he removed the veil until he came out. And he came out and told the sons of Israel what he had been commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the splendor of the glory of Moses' face was great; and Moses put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with Him.