The New Stone Tablets

34 The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones,p and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets,q which you broke.r 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.s Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain;t not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

4 So Moses chiseledu out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.v 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloudw and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.x 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionatey and gracious God, slow to anger,z abounding in lovea and faithfulness,b 7 maintaining love to thousands,c and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.d Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;e he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”f