Exodus
Chapter 34
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered.
2Be ready by morning. In the morning you shall go up onto Mount Sinai and stand there for me, on the top of the mountain.
3No one shall go up with you, and no one shall even be seen anywhere on the mountain. The flock and the herd shall not graze toward the front of that mountain.”
4He cut two stone tablets like the first ones. Moses got up early in the morning and went up onto Mount Sinai, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.
5God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and he called out the name God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
6God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. passed in front of him and called, “God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a God tender and gracious, slow to anger, great in loyalty and in what holds firm,
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Chesed is loyalty. Emet is what holds firm, truth that can be relied on. Both are printed. “Goodness and truth” is not.
7keeping loyalty for thousands, carrying guilt, rebellion, and offense, and clearing, he does not clear, calling the guilt of fathers to account on children and on children’s children, on the thirds and on the fourths.”
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The clearing line is an infinitive and a finite verb of the same root: clearing, he does not clear. No object is named. “The guilty” is not added. “For thousands” does not say generations.
8Moses hurried, bowed to the ground, and lay face down.
9He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, please let the Lord go in our midst. It is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our guilt and our offense, and take us as your own.”
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The word here is Adonai, Lord. It is not a second writing of the name Yahweh.
10He said, “Look, I am cutting a A solemn agreement that binds God and people.. Before all your people I will do wonders that have not been created in all the earth or among any of the nations. All the people among whom you are will see the work of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., for what I am doing with you is fearsome.
11Keep for yourself what I command you today. Look, I am driving out from before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12Guard yourself, or you will cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with the one who lives in the land you are coming into, or he will become a snare in your midst.
13For you shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, and cut down their Asherahs.
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Asherah is kept as the name of the cult object, a pole or a tree set up for that goddess. “Groves” is not printed.
14For you shall not bow to another god. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., Jealous is his name. He is a jealous God.
15Or you will cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with the one who lives in the land, and they will go whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and one will call you and you will eat of his sacrifice,
16and you will take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters will go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
17You shall not make cast gods for yourself.
18You shall keep the festival of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread. Seven days you shall eat Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, as I commanded you, at the set time in the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came out of Egypt.
19Every first to open a womb is mine, and of all your livestock the male you shall set aside, the first to open, of ox and of flock.
20The first to open of a donkey you shall buy back with a flock animal. If you do not buy it back, you shall break its neck. Every firstborn among your sons you shall buy back. They shall not appear before my face empty.
21Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall stop. In plowing and in harvest you shall stop.
22You shall make for yourself the festival of weeks, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year.
23Three times in the year every male of yours shall appear before the face of the Lord, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of Israel.
24For I will dispossess nations from before you and widen your border, and no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the face of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God three times in the year.
25You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. festival shall not be left until morning.
26The first of the firstfruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You shall not cook a young goat in the milk of its mother.”
27God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Write these words for yourself, for by the terms of these words I have cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with you and with Israel.”
28He was there with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. forty days and forty nights. He ate no bread and drank no water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people., the ten words.
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The writing verb has no named subject. The person in the sentence is Moses, who has been there forty days. In 34:1 Yahweh says that he himself will write. The English follows the sentence in front of it and does not decide the other.
29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest. in Moses’ hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was sending out rays, from his speaking with him.
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The verb is qaran, built on qeren, a horn. The sentence is about the skin of his face. “Sending out rays” is printed. The later Latin “horned” is not printed as the Hebrew.
30Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and look, the skin of his face was sending out rays, and they were afraid to come near him.
31Moses called to them. Aaron and all the leaders in the assembly turned back to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32After that all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them everything God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a veil on his face.
34Whenever Moses went in before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. to speak with him, he would take off the veil until he came out. He would come out and tell the sons of Israel what he had been commanded.
35The sons of Israel would see Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face was sending out rays, and Moses would put the veil back on his face until he went in to speak with him.