1 The tables are renewed
5 The name of the Lord proclaimed
8 Moses entreats God to go with them
10 God makes a covenant with them, repeating certain duties of the first table
28 Moses after forty days in the mount, comes down with the tables
29 His face shines, and he covers it with a vail

hew Ex 31:18 32:16,19 De 10:1

I will Ex 34:28 De 10:1-4

the words Ps 119:89

which Ex 32:19 De 9:15-17

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

in the top Ex 19:20,24 24:12 De 9:25

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

Ex 19:12,13,21 Le 16:17 1Ti 2:5 Heb 12:20

4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

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

descended Ex 19:18 33:9 Nu 11:17,25 1Ki 8:10-12 Lu 9:34,35

the name Ex 33:19 Nu 14:17 De 32:3 Ps 102:21 Pr 18:10 Isa 1:10

6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

passed Ex 33:20-23 1Ki 19:11

proclaimed Nu 14:17-19 Isa 12:4

the Lord Ex 3:13-16

merciful De 5:10 2Ch 30:9 Ne 9:17 Ps 86:5,15 103:8-13 111:4 112:4 116:5 145:8 Joe 2:13 Jon 4:2 Ro 2:4

abundant Ps 31:19 Mic 7:18 Ro 2:4 5:20,21 Eph 1:7,8

truth Ps 57:10 91:4 108:4 111:8 138:2 146:6 La 3:23 Mic 7:20 Joh 1:17

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

keeping Ex 20:6 De 5:10 Ne 1:5 9:32 Ps 86:15 Jer 32:18 Da 9:4

forgiving Ps 103:3 130:4 Da 9:9 Mic 7:18 Mt 6:14,15 12:31 18:32-35 Lu 7:42,48 Ac 5:31 13:8 Ro 4:7,8 Eph 1:7 4:32 1Jo 1:9

that will by no means clear the guilty. The Hebrew has been rendered 'Acquitting him who is not innocent.' Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, 'which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators.' Ex 23:7,21 Nu 14:18-23 De 32:35 Jos 24:19 Job 10:14 Ps 9:16,17 11:5,6 58:10,11 136:10,15 Isa 45:21 Mic 6:11 Na 1:2,3,6 Ro 2:4-9 3:19-26 9:22,23 Heb 12:29 Re 20:15 21:8

visiting Ex 20:5,6

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

Ex 4:31 Ge 17:3 2Ch 20:18

9 And he said, If now I have found grace 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 thine inheritance.

if now Ex 33:13,17

let my Lord Ex 33:14-16 Mt 28:20

stiff-necked Ex 32:9 33:3-5 Isa 48:4

pardon Nu 14:19 Ps 25:11

take us Ex 19:5 De 32:9 Ps 28:9 33:12 78:62 94:14 135:4 Jer 10:16 Zec 2:12

10 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 which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

I make Ex 24:7,8 De 4:13 5:2,3 29:12-14

I will do marvels De 4:32-37 32:30 Jos 6:20 10:12,13 2Sa 7:23 Ps 77:14 78:12 147:20

a terrible De 10:21 Ps 65:5 66:3,5 68:35 76:12 106:22 145:6 Isa 64:3 Jer 32:21

11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

observe De 4:1,2,40 5:32 6:3,25 12:28,32 28:1 Mt 28:20 Joh 14:21

I drive Ex 3:8,17 33:2 Ge 15:18-21 De 7:1,19 9:4,5

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

take heed Ex 23:32,33 De 7:2 Jud 2:2

lest De 7:16 Jos 23:12,13 Jud 2:3 8:27 Ps 106:36

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

ye shall Ex 23:24 De 7:5,25,26 12:2,3 Jud 2:2 6:25 2Ki 18:4 23:14 2Ch 31:1 34:3,4

images. Heb. statutes

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

worship Ex 20:3-5 De 5:7 Mt 4:10

whose Ex 34:5-7 33:19 Isa 9:6 57:15

jealous God Ex 20:5 De 5:24 6:15 29:20 32:16,21 Jos 24:19 Na 1:2 1Co 10:22

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

make Ex 34:10,12 23:32 De 7:2

whoring Le 17:7 20:5,6 Nu 15:39 De 31:16 Jud 2:17 Ps 73:27 Jer 3:9 Ezr 6:9 Ho 4:12 9:1 Re 17:1-5

call thee Nu 25:2 1Co 10:27

eat Ps 106:28 1Co 8:4,7,10 10:20,21 Re 2:20

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Nu 25:1,2 De 7:3,4 1Ki 11:2-4 Ezr 9:2 Ne 13:23,25 2Co 6:14-17

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Ex 32:8 Le 19:4 Isa 46:6,7 Jer 10:14 Ac 17:29 19:26

18 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 Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

Ex 12:15-20 13:4,6,7 23:15 Le 23:6 De 16:1-4 Mr 14:1 Lu 22:1 Ac 12:3

19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

openeth Ex 13:2,12 22:29 Nu 18:15-17 Eze 44:30 Lu 2:23

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

firstling Ex 13:10 Nu 18:15

lamb or kid. all the Ex 13:15 Nu 3:45-51

none Ex 23:15 De 16:16 1Sa 9:7,8 2Sa 24:24

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

six Ex 20:9-11 23:12 35:2 De 5:12-15 Lu 13:14 23:56

earing Ge 45:6 De 21:4 1Sa 8:12 Isa 30:24

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

feast of weeks Ex 23:16 Nu 28:16-31 29:12-39 De 16:10-15 Joh 7:2 Ac 2:1

year's end. Heb. revolution of the year

23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

trice Ex 23:14,17 De 16:16 Ps 84:7

the God Ge 32:28 33:20

24 For I will cast out 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 thrice in the year.

I will Ex 34:11 23:27-30 33:2 Le 18:24 De 7:1 Ps 78:55 80:8

enlarge Ex 23:31 De 12:20 19:8 1Ch 4:10

desire Ge 35:5 2Ch 17:10 Job 1:10 Pr 16:7 Ac 18:10

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

leaven Ex 12:20 23:18 De 16:3 1Co 5:7,8

be left Ex 12:10 23:18 29:34 Le 7:15 Nu 9:12

26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

first Ex 23:19 De 26:2,10 Pr 3:9,10 Mt 6:33 1Co 15:20 Jas 1:18

seethe Ex 23:19 De 14:21

27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

write Ex 17:14 24:4,7 De 31:9

I Have Ex 34:10 De 4:13 31:9

28 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 tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

forty days Ex 24:18 De 9:9,18,25

he wrote Ex 34:1 31:18 32:16 De 4:13 10:2-4 2Co 3:7

commandments. Heb. words

29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An.Ex.Is.!. Elul. Two tables Ex 32:15

wist Ex 16:15 Jos 2:4 8:14 Jud 16:20 Mr 9:6 14:40 Lu 2:49 Joh 5:13 Ac 6:15 2Co 3:7-9,13 Re 1:16 10:1

face shone. As the original word karan, signifies to shine out, or dart forth, as horns on the head of an animal, or rays of light reflected from a polished surface, we may suppose that the heavenly glory which filled the soul of this holy man, darted out from his face in coruscations, in the manner in which light is generally represented. The Vulgate renders it, 'and he did not know that his face was horned;' which version, misunderstood, has induced painters to represent Moses with two very large horns, one proceeding from each temple!

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

afraid Nu 12:8 Mr 9:3,15 Lu 5:8

31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

called Ex 3:15 24:1-3

and Moses talked Ge 45:3,15

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

he gave Ex 21:1 Nu 15:40 1Ki 22:14 Mt 28:20 1Co 11:23 15:3

33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

a vail Ro 10:4 2Co 3:13-18 4:4-6

34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

he took 2Co 3:16 Heb 4:16 10:19-22

35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Ex 34:29,30 Ec 8:1 Da 12:3 Mt 5:16 13:43 Joh 5:35 Php 2:15