Exodus 34

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1And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.16 cross-references: Exodus 32:19, Psalms 119:89, Exodus 31:18, Deuteronomy 10:1–4, Exodus 34:28
2And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.11 cross-references: Exodus 19:20, Deuteronomy 9:25, Exodus 19:11, Exodus 19:24, Exodus 24:12
3And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.8 cross-references: Exodus 19:12–13, Exodus 19:21, 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 12:20, Leviticus 16:17
4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.47 cross-references: Exodus 33:19, Luke 9:34–35, Exodus 33:9, Numbers 11:25, Numbers 11:17
6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,96 cross-references: Psalms 86:15, Joel 2:13, Psalms 103:8–13, Psalms 145:8, Nehemiah 9:17
7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.55 cross-references: Exodus 20:5–6, Psalms 103:3, Deuteronomy 5:9–10, Ephesians 1:7, Jeremiah 32:18
8And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.9 cross-references: Exodus 4:31, 2 Chronicles 20:18, Genesis 17:3
9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.35 cross-references: Psalms 33:12, Deuteronomy 32:9, Psalms 94:14, Psalms 135:4, Exodus 33:13–17
10And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.30 cross-references: Deuteronomy 10:21, Psalms 77:14, Isaiah 64:3, Psalms 66:5, Jeremiah 32:21
11Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.34 cross-references: Exodus 33:2, Exodus 3:17, Deuteronomy 6:25 – Deuteronomy 7:1, Exodus 3:8, Genesis 15:18–21
12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:26 cross-references: Exodus 23:32–33, Joshua 23:12–13, Deuteronomy 7:2, Judges 2:2–3, Deuteronomy 7:16
13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:25 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:4, Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 7:25–26, Deuteronomy 7:5
14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:35 cross-references: Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 32:21, 1 Corinthians 10:22, Matthew 4:10, Exodus 20:3–5
15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;43 cross-references: Judges 2:17, Psalms 106:28, 1 Corinthians 8:4, Numbers 25:2, Deuteronomy 31:16
16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.20 cross-references: Ezra 9:2, Deuteronomy 7:3–4, 1 Kings 11:2–4, Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah 13:23
17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.13 cross-references: Leviticus 19:4, Exodus 32:8, Isaiah 46:6–7, Jeremiah 10:14, Acts 19:26
18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.22 cross-references: Leviticus 23:6, Exodus 13:4, Deuteronomy 16:1–4, Mark 14:1, Exodus 12:2
19All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.13 cross-references: Exodus 13:2, Exodus 22:29, Exodus 13:12, Numbers 18:15–17, Ezekiel 44:30
20But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.14 cross-references: Deuteronomy 16:16, Exodus 23:15, Exodus 13:13, Numbers 18:15, Exodus 13:15
21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.21 cross-references: Exodus 23:12, Luke 13:14, 1 Samuel 8:12, Exodus 35:2, Deuteronomy 21:4
22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.20 cross-references: Exodus 23:16, Deuteronomy 16:10–15, Numbers 28:16–31, John 7:2, Acts 2:1
23Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.15 cross-references: Exodus 23:14, Deuteronomy 16:16, Exodus 23:17, Genesis 32:28, Psalms 84:7
24For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.21 cross-references: Psalms 78:55, Exodus 33:2, Acts 18:10, Deuteronomy 12:20, Proverbs 16:7
25Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.17 cross-references: Exodus 23:18, Exodus 12:10, Leviticus 7:15, Exodus 12:20, 1 Corinthians 5:7–8
26The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.21 cross-references: Exodus 23:19, Deuteronomy 14:21, Deuteronomy 26:2, 1 Corinthians 15:20, Deuteronomy 26:10
27And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.13 cross-references: Exodus 24:4, Deuteronomy 31:9, Exodus 17:14, Deuteronomy 4:13, Exodus 34:10
28And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.27 cross-references: Exodus 34:1, Exodus 24:18, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 9:18, Deuteronomy 9:25
29And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.27 cross-references: Matthew 17:2, Exodus 32:15, Luke 9:29, Revelation 1:16, 2 Corinthians 3:7–9
30And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.6 cross-references: Mark 9:3, Luke 5:8, Mark 9:15, Numbers 12:8
31And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.5 cross-references: Exodus 3:15, Exodus 24:1–3, Genesis 45:3, Genesis 45:15
32And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.8 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 15:3, Matthew 28:20, Numbers 15:40, 1 Kings 22:14, Exodus 24:3
33And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.4 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 4:4–6, 2 Corinthians 3:13–18, Romans 10:4
34But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.4 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 3:16, Hebrews 10:19–22, Hebrews 4:16
35And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.7 cross-references: Exodus 34:29–30, Ecclesiastes 8:1, Daniel 12:3, Philippians 2:15, Matthew 5:16

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Gracious and merciful Exodus 34:6 and Jonah 4:2
God proclaims himself merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in love. Jonah quotes this creed as his complaint: he fled because he knew God would forgive Nineveh. The formula echoes through the Old Testament.
Israel's creed sung Exodus 34:6 and Psalms 103:8
Psalm 103 turns God's self-description from Sinai into praise. The same words appear in Numbers 14, Nehemiah 9, Joel 2 and other places — one of Scripture's most repeated statements about God.
Full of grace and truth Exodus 34:6 and John 1:14
'Abundant in goodness and truth' (Hebrew: hesed and emet) describes God at Sinai. John says the Word made flesh is 'full of grace and truth' — the Sinai glory, now seen in a person.
Forty days of fasting Exodus 34:28 and Matthew 4:2
Moses fasts forty days and nights on Sinai while receiving the covenant. Jesus fasts forty days and nights before his ministry, then goes up a mountain to teach — Matthew's portrait of a new Moses.
A shining face on the mountain Exodus 34:29 and Matthew 17:2
Moses' face shone after speaking with God. On the mount of transfiguration Jesus' face shines like the sun — not reflecting glory as Moses did, but radiating it.
The veil over Moses' face Exodus 34:33 and 2 Corinthians 3:13
Moses veiled his shining face before the people. Paul uses the veil for a fading covenant and a dulled understanding, removed when anyone turns to the Lord.

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