Exodus 34:10–26

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰And he said, “Behold, ^oI am making a covenant. Before all your people ^pI will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ^qawesome thing that I will do with you.

¹¹“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^rI will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ^12sTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^tsnare in your midst. ¹³You shall ^utear down their altars and ^vbreak their pillars and cut down their ^wAsherim ¹⁴(for ^xyou shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ^15slest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ^ywhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and ^zyou are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take of ^atheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters ^ywhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

^17b“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

^18c“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^dthe month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. ^19eAll that open the womb are mine, all your male² livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. ²⁰The ^ffirstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And ^gnone shall appear before me empty-handed.

^21h“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. ²²ⁱYou shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. ^23jThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. ²⁴For I will ^kcast out nations before you and ^lenlarge your borders; ^mno one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵ⁿ“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ^oor let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. ^26pThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. ^qYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”