Exodus 34:10–28

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰And He said: “Behold, ^qI make a covenant. Before all your people I will ^rdo ²marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is ^san awesome thing that I will do with you. ^11tObserve what I command you this day. Behold, ^uI am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ^12vTake heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. ¹³But you shall ^wdestroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and ^xcut down their wooden images ¹⁴(for you shall worship ^yno other god, for the Lord, whose ^zname is Jealous, is a ^ajealous God), ¹⁵lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^bplay the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^cinvites you and you ^deat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take of ^ehis daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^fplay the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

^17g“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

¹⁸“The Feast of ^hUnleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the ⁱmonth of Abib you came out from Egypt.

^19j“All ³that open the womb are Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep. ²⁰But ^kthe firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.

“And none shall appear before Me ^lempty-handed.

^21m“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

²²“And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

²³ⁿ“Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴For I will ^ocast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

²⁵“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, ^pnor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.

^26q“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to 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, “Write ^rthese words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ^28sSo he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And ^tHe wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ⁴Ten Commandments.