1 The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.
2 Be ready by morning, and in the morning come up Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
3 No one is to come up with you, and no one is to be seen anywhere on the mountain. Not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of that mountain."
4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, carrying the two stone tablets in his hands.
5 The LORD came down in the cloud, stood there with him and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, rich in steadfast love and faithfulness,
7 maintaining steadfast love to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin; yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, but brings the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the grandchildren, to the third and fourth generation."
8 At once Moses bowed to the ground and worshiped.
9 "Lord," he said, "if I have found favor with you, then let the Lord go among us. This is a stiff-necked people, but forgive our iniquity and our sin and take us as your own possession."
10 He said, "Here and now I am making a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders such as have never been performed anywhere on earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the work of the LORD, for what I am about to do with you is awe-inspiring.
11 Keep what I command you today. I am going to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
12 Be careful not to make a covenant with those who live in the land you are entering, or they will become a trap among you.
13 Instead, tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim.
14 You must not bow down to any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 Do not make a covenant with those who live in the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, someone will invite you and you will eat from his sacrifice,
16 and you will take some of their daughters as wives for your sons; then their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and lead your sons to do the same.
17 Do not make cast metal gods for yourself.
18 Keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the set time in the month of Abib, because in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 Every first offspring of the womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
20 Redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 For six days you may work, but on the seventh day rest; even at plowing time and at harvest you are to rest.
22 Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
25 Do not offer the blood of my sacrifice along with anything leavened, and do not let the sacrifice from the Passover feast remain until morning.
26 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
27 The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in keeping with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
28 Moses stayed there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands, he was not aware that the skin of his face shone because he had been speaking with the LORD.
30 Aaron and all the children of Israel looked at Moses, and the skin of his face shone, so they were afraid to approach him.
31 But Moses called out to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation came back to him, and Moses spoke with them.
32 After that all the children of Israel came near, and he passed on to them as commands everything the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses had finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.
34 Whenever he went in before the LORD to speak with him, Moses took the veil off until he came out. When he came out, he told the children of Israel what he had been commanded,
35 and the children of Israel would see that the skin of Moses' face shone. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in again to speak with the LORD.