¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Hew out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you broke. ²And be ready in the morning and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the summit of the mountain. ³And no-one shall go up with you, and moreover let no-one be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor shall sheep or cattle graze near that mountain.” ⁴So he hewed out two stone tablets like the first ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵Then the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and made proclamation in the name of the Lord. ⁶And the Lord passed by alongside him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in kindness and truth, ⁷maintaining kindness to thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who certainly does not pronounce innocent, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on sons and grandsons up to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸Then Moses was quick to bow down to the ground, and he worshipped. ⁹And he said, “Please, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord^*, please let the Lord^* go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin and acquire us as an inheritance.” ¹⁰Then he said, “Look, I am about to make a covenant. In the presence of all your people, I will perform wonders which have not been produced in all the earth or among any of the nations, and all the people in whose midst you are will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing which I am about to do with you. ¹¹Observe what I am about to command you today, and you will see that I will drive out the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite away from you. ¹²Beware that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land which you are going into, in case it becomes a snare in your midst. ¹³For you will demolish their altars and break up their idolatrous statues, and you will cut down their phallic parks. ¹⁴For you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord has the name ‘Jealous’. He is a jealous God. ¹⁵Beware that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, or someone invites you, and you eat from his sacrifice, ¹⁶or you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and they make your sons go whoring after their gods. ¹⁷You shall not make yourself cast gods. ¹⁸You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, at the fixed time in the month of Abib, for you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib. ¹⁹Everyone who opens the womb is mine, as is all male cattle of yours which opens the womb, whether ox or sheep. ²⁰And you will redeem a donkey which opens the womb with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, you will break its neck. You will redeem every firstborn of your sons, so that none shall see my face empty-handed. ²¹For six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you will desist; whether in time of ploughing or in time of harvest, you will desist. ²²And you will observe the Festival of Weeks, at the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of the Ingathering in the cycle of the year. ²³Three times a year all your males will see the face of the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴For I will dispossess nations before you, and I will broaden your border, and no-one will want your land when you go up to see the face of the Lord your God three times per year. ²⁵You shall not slaughter anything for the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and the sacrifice of the Festival of the Passover shall not remain until the morning. ²⁶You shall bring the beginning of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a goat-kid in its mother's milk.” ²⁷Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these things down for yourself, because it is according to these things that I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread and he did not drink water, and he wrote the words of the covenant on the tablets – the ten commandments. ²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face was shining from talking with him. ³⁰And Aaron, and all the sons of Israel, saw Moses, and it was apparent that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to approach him. ³¹And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³²And after that, all the sons of Israel approached, and he commanded them everything that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³Then Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a covering over his face. ³⁴Then when Moses came before the Lord to speak with him, he removed the covering until he went out. Then he went out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded. ³⁵And the sons of Israel saw Moses' face, for the skin of Moses' face was shining. Then Moses put the cover back over his face, until he went to speak with him.