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^IAnd YHWH said to Moses, “Carve two tablets of stones like the first ones, and I’ll write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered.^{* 2}And be ready for the morning, and you shall go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. ³And no man shall go up with you, and also let no man be seen in all of the mountain. Also let the flock and the oxen not feed opposite that mountain.” ⁴And he carved two tablets of stones like the first ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai as YHWH had commanded him, and he took in his hand two tablets of stones. ⁵And YHWH came down in a cloud and stood with him there, and he invoked the name YHWH. ⁶And YHWH passed in front of him and called,

YHWH, YHWH, merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in kindness and faithfulness, ⁷keeping kindness for thousands, bearing crime and offense and sin; though not making one innocent: reckoning fathers’ crime on children and on children’s children, on third generations and on fourth generations.^**

⁸And Moses hurried and knelt to the ground and bowed, ⁹and he said, “If I’ve found favor in your eyes, my Lord, may my Lord go among us, because it is a stiff-necked people, and forgive our crime and our sin, and make us your legacy.”

¹⁰And He said, “Here, I’m making a covenant. Before all your people I’ll do wonders that haven’t been created in all the earth and among all the nations; and all the people whom you’re among will see YHWH’s deeds, because that which I’m doing with you is awesome. ¹¹Watch yourself regarding what I command you today. Here, I’m driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ¹²Be watchful of yourself that you don’t make a covenant with the resident of the land onto which you’re coming, that he doesn’t become a trap among you. ¹³But you shall demolish their altars and shatter their pillars and cut down their Asherahs.

¹⁴For you shall not bow to another god—because YHWH: His name is Jealous, He is a jealous God— ¹⁵that you not make a covenant with the resident of the land, and they will prostitute themselves after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and he will call to you, and you will eat from his sacrifice. ¹⁶And you will take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters will prostitute themselves after their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods.

¹⁷You shall not make molten gods for yourself.

¹⁸You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time, the month of Abib; because in the month of Abib you went out of Egypt.

¹⁹Every first birth of a womb is mine, and all your animals that have a male first birth, ox or sheep. ²⁰And you shall redeem an ass’s first birth with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem every firstborn of your sons. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.

^2ISix days you shall work, and in the seventh day you shall cease. In plowing time and in harvest, you shall cease.

²²And you shall make a Festival of Weeks, of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Gathering at the end of the year. ²³Three times in the year every one of your males shall appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel. ²⁴For I shall dispossess nations before you and widen your border, and no man will covet your land while you are going up to appear before YHWH, your God, three times in the year.

²⁵You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice on leavened bread.

And the sacrifice of the Festival of Passover shall not remain until the morning.

²⁶You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land to the house of YHWH, your God.

You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.”

²⁷And YHWH said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, because I’ve made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.” ²⁸And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.^*

²⁹And it was when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he was coming down from the mountain.^* And Moses had not known that the skin of his face was transformed when He was speaking with him. ³⁰And Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses; and, here, the skin of his face was transformed, and they were afraid of going over to him. ³¹And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the chiefs in the congregation came back to him, and he spoke to them. ³²And after that all the children of Israel went over. And he commanded them everything that YHWH had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. ³³And Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a veil on his face. ³⁴And when Moses would come in front of YHWH to speak with Him, he would turn away the veil until he would go out; and he would go out and speak to the children of Israel what he had been commanded. ³⁵And the children of Israel would see Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face was transformed, and Moses would put back the veil on his face until he would come to speak with Him.