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¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.[ † ]Exodus 24:12Exodus 31:18Exodus 32:15-16, 19Deuteronomy 4:13Deuteronomy 10:2-4 ²Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.[ † ]Exodus 19:11-18, 20 ³No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”[ † ]Exodus 19:12-13Exodus 24:9-11

⁴So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him.

⁵And the Lord descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the Lord.[ † ]Exodus 19:9Exodus 33:19

⁸Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.[ † ]Exodus 4:31 ⁹“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”[ † ]Exodus 33:12-16Exodus 33:3Psalms 33:12Psalms 94:14

¹⁰And the Lord said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the Lord’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.[ † ]Exodus 34:27-28Deuteronomy 5:2Deuteronomy 4:32Psalms 77:14Psalms 145:6

¹¹Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.[ † ]Deuteronomy 6:25Exodus 23:20-33Exodus 33:2Joshua 11:23 ¹²Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.[ † ]Exodus 23:32-33 ¹³Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.[ † ]Exodus 23:24Deuteronomy 12:3Deuteronomy 16:21Judges 6:25-262 Kings 18:42 Chronicles 34:3-4 ¹⁴For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.[ † ]Exodus 20:3-5Isaiah 9:6Isaiah 57:15Exodus 20:5Deuteronomy 4:24

¹⁵Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.[ † ]Judges 2:17Numbers 25:1-2Deuteronomy 32:37-381 Corinthians 8:4-7, 10 ¹⁶And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.[ † ]Genesis 28:1Deuteronomy 7:3Joshua 23:12-131 Kings 11:2Ezra 9:2Nehemiah 13:25Numbers 25:1-21 Kings 11:4

¹⁷You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.[ † ]Exodus 20:4-23Exodus 32:8Leviticus 19:4Deuteronomy 5:8

¹⁸You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.[ † ]Exodus 12:15-16Exodus 12:2Exodus 13:4

¹⁹The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.[ † ]Exodus 13:2Exodus 22:29 ²⁰You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.[ † ]Exodus 13:13Exodus 22:29Exodus 23:15Deuteronomy 16:16

²¹Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.[ † ]Exodus 20:9Exodus 23:12Exodus 31:15Exodus 35:2Leviticus 23:3Deuteronomy 5:13

²²And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ²³Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.[ † ]Exodus 23:14-17 ²⁴For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.[ † ]Exodus 33:2Joshua 11:231 Kings 4:212 Chronicles 36:14-16Psalms 78:55

²⁵Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.[ † ]Exodus 12:10

²⁶Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”[ † ]Exodus 23:19Deuteronomy 26:2

²⁷The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”[ † ]Exodus 17:14Exodus 24:4Deuteronomy 31:9

²⁸So Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.[ † ]Exodus 24:18Exodus 34:1-4Deuteronomy 4:31Deuteronomy 10:2-4

²⁹And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the Lord.[ † ]Exodus 32:15 ³⁰Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.[ † ]Matthew 17:22 Corinthians 3:7

³¹But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³²And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai.[ † ]Exodus 24:3

³³When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.[ † ]2 Corinthians 3:13-14 ³⁴But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,[ † ]2 Corinthians 3:13-16 ³⁵and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.