Exodus 34:18-27

18 ¹"You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ²the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

19 ³All that open the womb are mine, all your male^[a] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

20 The ⁴firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And ⁵none shall appear before me empty-handed.

21 ⁶"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 ⁷You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

23 ⁸Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

24 For I will ⁹cast out nations before you and ¹⁰enlarge your borders; ¹¹no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

25 ¹²"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ¹³or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

26 ¹⁴The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. ¹⁵You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

27 And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words ¹⁶I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

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Exodus 34:18-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 34

In this chapter Moses has orders to hew two tables of stone, that God might write on them the ten commands, and bring them up with him to the mount, Ex 34:1-4 where the Lord proclaimed his name, and caused his glory and his goodness to pass before him, Ex 34:5-7 when Moses took this favourable opportunity that offered to pray for the people, that God would forgive their sin, and go along with them, Ex 34:8,9 upon which he made a covenant with them, which on his part was to do wonders for them, and drive out the inhabitants of Canaan before them; and on their part, that they should have no confederacy and communion with these nations, and shun their idolatry, and everything that might lead unto it, Ex 34:10-17 and he repeated several laws before given, and urged the observance of them, which Moses was to acquaint the people with, Ex 34:18-27 and after a stay of forty days and forty nights on the mount, he came down with the two tables of the law; and the skin of his face shone so bright, that the people of Israel were afraid to come nigh him, and therefore he put a vail over his face while he conversed with them, Ex 34:28-35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. See Exodus 12:15
2. Exodus 13:4
3. See Exodus 13:2
4. Exodus 13:13; Numbers 18:15
5. Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16
6. See Exodus 20:9
7. Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:10, 13
8. Exodus 23:14, 17; Deuteronomy 16:16
9. Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 7:1; Psalms 78:55; Psalms 80:8; See Exodus 23:27-31
10. Deuteronomy 12:20; Deuteronomy 19:8
11. [Proverbs 16:7]
12. See Exodus 12:8
13. See Exodus 12:10
14. See Exodus 23:19
15. Deuteronomy 14:21
16. ver. 10

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint, Theodotion, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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