Exodus 34:10–28

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Israel

¹⁰Then ¹God said, “Behold, ^aI am going to cut a covenant. Before all your people ^bI will do wondrous deeds which have not been created in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ²among whom you live will see the working of Yahweh, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to do with you.

¹¹“¹Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^aI am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²“^aBeware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

¹³“^aBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ^1bAsherim

¹⁴—for ^ayou shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

¹⁵lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^asacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^binvite you ¹to eat of his sacrifice,

¹⁶and ^ayou take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

¹⁷“^aYou shall make for yourself no molten gods.

¹⁸“You shall keep ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^bseven days you shall eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^cmonth of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹“^aThe first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, even of all your male livestock, the first offspring from ¹cattle and sheep.

²⁰“^aAnd you shall redeem with a lamb the ¹first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^ball the firstborn of your sons. ^2cNone shall appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹“You shall work ^asix days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

²²“And you shall celebrate ^athe Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

²³“^aThree times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

²⁴“For I will ^adispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before Yahweh your God.

²⁵“^aYou shall not ¹offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^band the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not ²be left over until morning.

²⁶“You shall bring ^athe very first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²⁷Then Yahweh said to Moses, “^aWrite ¹down these words, for in accordance with these words I have cut ^ba covenant with you and with Israel.”

²⁸So he was there with Yahweh ^aforty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^1bhe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^cthe Ten ²Commandments.