The Promise of God’s Presence

¹² Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, ^(A)You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ^(B)‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ ¹³ Now therefore, I pray, ^(C)if I have found grace in Your sight, ^(D)show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is ^(E)Your people.”

¹⁴ And He said, ^(F)“My Presence will go with you, and I will give you ^(G)rest.”

¹⁵ Then he said to Him, ^(H)“If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. ¹⁶ For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, ^(I)except You go with us? So we ^(J)shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

¹⁷ So the Lord said to Moses, ^(K)“I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

¹⁸ And he said, “Please, show me ^(L)Your glory.”

¹⁹ Then He said, “I will make all My ^(M)goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. ^(N)I will be gracious to whom I will be ^(O)gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” ²⁰ But He said, “You cannot see My face; for ^(P)no man shall see Me, and live.” ²¹ And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. ²² So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you ^(Q)in the cleft of the rock, and will ^(R)cover you with My hand while I pass by. ²³ Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall ^(S)not be seen.”

Moses Makes New Tablets^(T)

34 And the Lord said to Moses, ^(U)“Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and ^(V)I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. ² So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there ^(W)on the top of the mountain. ³ And no man shall ^(X)come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

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

⁵ Now the Lord descended in the ^(Y)cloud and stood with him there, and ^(Z)proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord ^(AA)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in ^(AB)goodness and ^(AC)truth, ^7 (AD)keeping mercy for thousands, ^(AE)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, ^(AF)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

⁸ So Moses made haste and ^(AG)bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. ⁹ Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^(AH)let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^(AI)stiff-necked^[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^(AJ)Your inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed^(AK)

¹⁰ And He said: “Behold, ^(AL)I make a covenant. Before all your people I will ^(AM)do ^[b]marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is ^(AN)an awesome thing that I will do with you. ^11 (AO)Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^(AP)I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ^12 (AQ)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. ¹³ But you shall ^(AR)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and ^(AS)cut down their wooden images ¹⁴ (for you shall worship ^(AT)no other god, for the Lord, whose ^(AU)name is Jealous, is a ^(AV)jealous God), ¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(AW)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(AX)invites you and you ^(AY)eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(AZ)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(BA)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

^17 (BB)“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

¹⁸ “The Feast of ^(BC)Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the ^(BD)month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

^19 (BE)“All ^[c]that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. ²⁰ But ^(BF)the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.

“And none shall appear before Me ^(BG)empty-handed.

^21 (BH)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

²² “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

^23 (BI)“Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will ^(BJ)cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵ “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, ^(BK)nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

^26 (BL)“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”