Exodus 34:10–28

¹⁰Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant^l with you. Before all your people I will do wonders^m never before done in any nation in all the world.ⁿ The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. ¹¹Obey what I command^o you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^{p 12}Be careful not to make a treaty^q with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare^r among you. ¹³Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{as 14}Do not worship any other god,^t for the Lord, whose name^u is Jealous, is a jealous God.^v

¹⁵“Be careful not to make a treaty^w with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^x themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{y 16}And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^z for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^a they will lead your sons to do the same.

¹⁷“Do not make any idols.^b

¹⁸“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.^c For seven days eat bread made without yeast,^d as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,^e for in that month you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹“The first offspring^f of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. ²⁰Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.^g Redeem all your firstborn sons.^h

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.ⁱ

²¹“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;^j even during the plowing season and harvest^k you must rest.

²²“Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits^l of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering^m at the turn of the year.^{b 23}Three timesⁿ a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. ²⁴I will drive out nations^o before you and enlarge your territory,^p and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

²⁵“Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast,^q and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.^r

²⁶“Bring the best of the firstfruits^s of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”^t

²⁷Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write^u down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant^v with you and with Israel.” ²⁸Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights^w without eating bread or drinking water.^x And he wrote on the tablets^y the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^z