Exodus 34 · Parashat Ki Tisa

And the Lord said to Moshe, Hew for thyself two tablets of stone like the first: and I will write upon these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which thou didst break.

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinay, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mountain.

And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.

And he hewed two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinay, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord, mighty, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in love and truth,

keeping troth to thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty; punishing the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, to the third and to the fourth generation.

And Moshe made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

And he said, If now I have found favour in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among whom thou art shall see the work of the Lord that I will do with thee, that it is tremendous.

Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Emori, and the Kena῾ani, and the Ḥitti, and the Perizzi, and the Ḥivvi, and the Yevusi.

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

but you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their asherim:

for thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go astray after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and call thee, and thou eat of their sacrifice;

and thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Aviv: (for in the month Aviv thou didst come out from Miżrayim.)

All that opens the womb is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem it not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing and in harvest thou shalt rest.

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Yisra᾽el.

For I will cast the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God three times in the year.

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left to the morning.

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

And the Lord said to Moshe, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Yisra᾽el.

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten Words.

And it came to pass, when Moshe came down from mount Sinay with the two tablets of Testimony in Moshe’s hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moshe knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

And when Aharon and all the children of Yisra᾽el saw Moshe, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

And Moshe called to them; and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him: and Moshe talked with them.

And afterwards all the children of Yisra᾽el came near: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinay.

And when Moshe had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

But when Moshe went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spoke to the children of Yisra᾽el that which he was commanded.

And the children of Yisra᾽el saw the face of Moshe, that the skin of Moshe’s face shone: and Moshe put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.