1 ARST Yahweh kept talking to Moses,“Cut two slabs of stone like the first slabs, the ones that you smashed. Then I will write the same thing on them as was on the first slabs. BSB BSB: Then 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.
2 ARST Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up and stand before me at the top of Mount Sinai. BSB BSB: Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
3 ARST Do not allow anyone to come up with you. I do not want anyone else to be anywhere on the mountain. Do not even allow any sheep or cattle to eat grass near the mountain.” BSB BSB: No 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.”
4 ARST So Moses cut two slabs of stone like the first ones. He rose early the next morning, picked up the slabs, and carried them in his hands up to the top of Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had told him. BSB BSB: So 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.
5 ARST Then Yahweh came down in the tall cloud and stood there with Moses. Then Yahweh called out his name,“Yahweh.” BSB BSB: And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
6 ARST Yahweh passed in front of him and called out,“I am Yahweh God. I always act mercifully and kindly toward people, and I do not get angry quickly. I abundantly love and faithfully do what I promise for my people. BSB BSB: Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
7 ARST I abundantly love people for thousands of generations. I forgive people for doing wrong, transgressing, and sinning. But I will certainly punish the guilty. If people do wrong, I cause that to affect their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation.” BSB BSB: maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
8 ARST Quickly Moses bowed low down on the ground and worshiped Yahweh. BSB BSB: Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
9 ARST He said,“My Lord, if you are now pleased with me, I ask that you go with us. These people are very stubborn, but forgive us for all our sins, and accept us as the people who belong to you forever.” BSB BSB: “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.”
10 ARST Yahweh replied,“Pay attention! I am going to remind you of what I agreed with the Israelites.{ As for me,} I will perform great miracles. These will be miracles that no one has ever done on the earth in any people group. Every nation around them will see the great things that I, Yahweh, will do. I will do things for you all that will make everyone revere me. BSB BSB: And 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.
11 ARST Obey what I am about to command you today. I will surely force the Amor, Canaan, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people groups to leave the land for you. BSB BSB: Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
12 ARST Be careful that you do not agree to live peacefully with any of the people who live in the land into which you are going. If you do that,{ you will begin to do the evil things that they do.} It will be like falling into a trap. BSB BSB: Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
13 ARST Rather, you must tear down their altars, destroy their idols, and cut down the poles that they use to worship Asherah. BSB BSB: Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
14 ARST { Do that} because you must not worship any other god, because I, Yahweh, am passionate for people to recognize that I am the only true God, like a husband is passionate for his wife to love only him. BSB BSB: For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 ARST { Again,} do not agree to live peacefully with any of the people who live in the land, because when they worship their gods and offer sacrifices to them, they will invite you to join them. Then you will{ be unfaithful to me and sin by} eating the food that they sacrifice to their gods. BSB BSB: Do 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.
16 ARST Then you will{ sin by} having some of their women to be wives for your sons. These women will worship their own gods. They will also make your sons be unfaithful to me by worshiping those gods. BSB BSB: And 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.
17 ARST Do not make your own gods by pouring melted metal into statue molds. BSB BSB: You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
18 ARST Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread the way that I commanded you: eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month called Aviv. I set this time because Aviv is the month when you left Egypt. BSB BSB: You 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.
19 ARST All your firstborn sons belong to me. All the firstborn males of your domesticated animals, cows, sheep, and goats, belong to me. BSB BSB: The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
20 ARST In the case of a firstborn donkey, you must buy it back by killing a lamb instead of it. If you do not buy it back, you must kill the donkey by breaking its neck. You must buy back every one of your firstborn sons. Do not come to worship me without bringing an offering. BSB BSB: You 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.
21 ARST Work six days{ each week}, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even during the times when you are plowing the ground or harvesting your crops, you must rest on the seventh day. BSB BSB: Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
22 ARST { In the spring,} when you begin to harvest the first wheat crop, have the Celebration of Weeks, and at the end of the year have the Finished Harvest Celebration. BSB BSB: And 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.
23 ARST Three times every year, all the men must gather together to worship me, the Lord Yahweh, the Israelite’ s God. BSB BSB: Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 ARST Surely, I will force the people groups to leave the land you are going to, and I will make your territory larger. No one will want{ to try to conquer} your country while the men come to worship Yahweh your God for these three festivals each year. BSB BSB: For 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.
25 ARST Do not sacrifice bread you made with yeast along with blood from an animal sacrifice. Do not keep until the next morning any part of the animals you sacrificed at the Passover celebration. BSB BSB: Do 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.
26 ARST { Each year, when you harvest your crops,} take the best of what you harvest first, go to the place where you worship me, and give it to me, Yahweh your God.{ When you kill} a young animal, do not cook it by boiling it in its mother’ s milk.” BSB BSB: Bring 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.”
27 ARST Yahweh said to Moses,“Write down the words that I have told you. By giving you these commands, I have made an agreement with you and with the Israelites.” BSB BSB: The 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.”
28 ARST Moses was there{ on the top of the mountain} with Yahweh for 40 days and nights. During that time he did not eat or drink anything. He engraved on the stone slabs the words of the Ten Commandments which were part of Yahweh’ s solemn agreement. BSB BSB: So 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.
29 ARST When Moses came back down from Mount Sinai he was carrying the two stone slabs on which he had written the Ten Commandments. His face was very bright from talking to Yahweh, but he did not know it. BSB BSB: And 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.
30 ARST When Aaron and the Israelites saw Moses, they were amazed that his face was bright, and were afraid to approach him. BSB BSB: Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.
31 ARST But Moses summoned them, and Aaron and the other Israelite leaders came back to him, and he talked with them. BSB BSB: But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32 ARST Afterwards, all the Israelites came near, and Moses told them all that Yahweh had commanded him on Mount Sinai. BSB BSB: And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
33 ARST When Moses finished talking to the people, he covered his face with a thin cloth. BSB BSB: When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
34 ARST Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to talk with Yahweh, he would remove the cloth. When he came back out, he would always tell the Israelite people everything that Yahweh had commanded him to tell them. BSB BSB: But 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,
35 ARST The Israelites would see that Moses’ face was still bright. Then he would put the cloth on his face again until the next time that he went to talk with Yahweh. BSB BSB: and 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.
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