Exodus 34:1-14

Moses Makes New Tablets

1 The Lord said to Moses, ¹“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, ²and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ³which you broke.

2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me ⁴on the top of the mountain.

3 No ⁵one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain. ”

4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.

5 The Lord ⁶descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ⁷proclaimed the name of the Lord.

6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ⁸“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ⁹gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ¹⁰love and faithfulness,

7 ¹¹keeping steadfast love for thousands, ^{[a] 12}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ¹³who will by no means clear the guilty, ¹⁴visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation. ”

8 And Moses quickly ¹⁵bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.

9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please ¹⁶let the Lord go in the midst of us, for ¹⁷it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for ¹⁸your inheritance. ”

The Covenant Renewed

10 And he said, “Behold, ¹⁹I am making a covenant. Before all your people ²⁰I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ²¹awesome thing that I will do with you.

11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ²²I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

12 ²³Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ²⁴snare in your midst.

13 You shall ²⁵tear down their altars and ²⁶break their pillars and cut down their ²⁷Asherim

14 (for ²⁸you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Cross References

• 1. 34:1 Deut. 10:1
• 2. 34:1 ver. 28; Deut. 10:2, 4
• 3. 34:1 ch. 32:19
• 4. 34:2 ch. 19:20
• 5. 34:3 ch. 19:12, 13, 21
• 6. 34:5 Num. 11:25; [1 Kgs. 8:10, 11]
• 7. 34:5 ch. 33:19
• 8. 34:6 Num. 14:18; 2 Chr. 30:9; Neh. 9:17; Ps. 86:15; 103:8; 111:4; 112:4; 116:5; 145:8; Joel 2:13
• 9. 34:6 ch. 22:27
• 10. 34:6 Ps. 57:10; 108:4
• 11. 34:7 ch. 20:5, 6; Deut. 5:10; Jer. 32:18; Dan. 9:4
• 12. 34:7 Ps. 103:3; 130:4; Dan. 9:9; 1 John 1:9
• 13. 34:7 ch. 23:21; Josh. 24:19; Job 10:14; Nah. 1:3
• 14. 34:7 Deut. 5:9
• 15. 34:8 ch. 4:31; 12:27
• 16. 34:9 ch. 33:15, 16
• 17. 34:9 See ch. 32:9
• 18. 34:9 Deut. 32:9; Ps. 28:9; 33:12; 78:62; 94:14; Jer. 10:16; Zech. 2:12
• 19. 34:10 ver. 27; Deut. 5:2; 29:1
• 20. 34:10 Deut. 4:32-35; Josh. 6:20; 10:12, 13; 2 Sam. 7:23; Ps. 77:14; 78:12
• 21. 34:10 Deut. 10:21; Ps. 145:6; [Isa. 64:3]
• 22. 34:11 See ch. 13:5
• 23. 34:12 ch. 23:32; Deut. 7:2; Josh. 23:12, 13; Judg. 2:2
• 24. 34:12 See ch. 23:33
• 25. 34:13 Deut. 7:5; 12:3; Judg. 2:2; 6:25; 2 Chr. 34:3, 4
• 26. 34:13 ch. 23:24; 2 Kgs. 18:4; 23:14; 2 Chr. 31:1
• 27. 34:13 See Deut. 16:21
• 28. 34:14 ch. 20:3, 5

Footnotes

• [a] 34:7 Or 'to the thousandth generation'