Exodus 34:15-25

15 ¹lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ²whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and ³you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

16 and you take of ⁴their daughters for your sons, and their daughters ⁵whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

17 ⁶"You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

18 ⁷"You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ⁸the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

19 ⁹All that open the womb are mine, all your male^[a] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

20 The ¹⁰firstborn 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 ¹¹none shall appear before me empty-handed.

21 ¹²"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 ¹³You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

23 ¹⁴Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

24 For I will ¹⁵cast out nations before you and ¹⁶enlarge your borders; ¹⁷no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

25 ¹⁸"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ¹⁹or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

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Exodus 34:15-25 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 19

1. [See ver. 12 above]
2. Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 20:5; Deuteronomy 31:16; Judges 2:17; Jeremiah 3:9; Ezekiel 6:9
3. Numbers 25:2; Psalms 106:28; [1 Cor. 8:4, 7, 10; 1 Corinthians 10:27]
4. Deuteronomy 7:3, 4; 1 Kings 11:2; Ezra 9:2; Nehemiah 13:25
5. [See ver. 15 above]
6. Leviticus 19:4; Deuteronomy 27:15; [Exodus 32:4, 8]
7. See Exodus 12:15
8. Exodus 13:4
9. See Exodus 13:2
10. Exodus 13:13; Numbers 18:15
11. Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16
12. See Exodus 20:9
13. Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 16:10, 13
14. Exodus 23:14, 17; Deuteronomy 16:16
15. Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 7:1; Psalms 78:55; Psalms 80:8; See Exodus 23:27-31
16. Deuteronomy 12:20; Deuteronomy 19:8
17. [Proverbs 16:7]
18. See Exodus 12:8
19. See Exodus 12:10

Footnotes 1

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

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