Exodus 34:10–28

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰Then ¹God said, “Behold, ^aI am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^bI will perform miracles which have not been ²produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ³among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

¹¹“¹Be sure to observe 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“^aWatch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

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

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

¹⁵otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and ^asacrifice to their gods, and someone ^bmight invite you ¹to eat of his sacrifice,

¹⁶and ^ayou might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might 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 observe ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^bseven days you are to eat unleavened bread, ¹as 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, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from ¹cattle and sheep.

²⁰“^aYou 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“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 ¹God, the God of Israel.

²⁴“For I will ^1adrive out 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 the Lord your God.

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

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

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

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

²⁸So he was there with the Lord ^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.