New Stone Tablets

34 The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.^{(A) 2} Be prepared by morning. Come up Mount Sinai in the morning and stand before Me on the mountaintop. ³ No one may go up with you; in fact, no one must be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.”^(B)

⁴ Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him.

⁵ The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name Yahweh. ⁶ Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

⁸ Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. ⁹ Then he said, “My Lord, if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Even though this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wrongdoing and sin, and accept us as Your own possession.”^(F)

Laws of Holiness

19 The Lord spoke to Moses: ² “Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy^(A) because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.^(B)

⁴ “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.^{[a](A) 5} Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.^(B)

God’s Judgment of Israel’s Rebellion

¹¹ The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?^{(A) 12} I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”^(B)

¹³ But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them. ¹⁴ They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.^(C) They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.^{(D) 15} If You kill this people with a single blow,^[a](E) the nations that have heard of Your fame^(F) will declare, ¹⁶ ‘Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them,^(G) He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’^(H)

¹⁷ “So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken: ¹⁸ The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love,^(I) forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion.^(J) But He will not leave the guilty unpunished,^(K) bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.^{(L) 19} Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love,^(M) just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”