The Lord Our God Is Holy

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

A Psalm for ^ogiving thanks.

Moses Makes New Tablets

1 The Lord said to Moses, ^w“Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, ^xand I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ^ywhich you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me ^zon the top of the mountain. 3 No ^aone shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” 4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5 The Lord ^bdescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ^cproclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^d“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^egracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^flove and faithfulness, 7 ^gkeeping steadfast love for thousands,^{1 h}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ⁱwho will by no means clear the guilty, ^jvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly ^kbowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please ^llet the Lord go in the midst of us, for ^mit is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for ⁿyour inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed

10 And he said, “Behold, ^oI am making a covenant. Before all your people ^pI will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an ^qawesome thing that I will do with you.

11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^rI will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 ^sTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^tsnare in your midst. 13 You shall ^utear down their altars and ^vbreak their pillars and cut down their ^wAsherim 14 (for ^xyou shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 ^slest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ^ywhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and ^zyou are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of ^atheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters ^ywhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

17 ^b“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

18 ^c“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^dthe month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19 ^eAll that open the womb are mine, all your male² livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 20 The ^ffirstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And ^gnone shall appear before me empty-handed.

21 ^h“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22 ⁱYou shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. 23 ^jThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will ^kcast out nations before you and ^lenlarge your borders; ^mno one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

25 ⁿ“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, ^oor let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. 26 ^pThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. ^qYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words ^rI have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 ^sSo he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he ^twrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.³

The Shining Face of Moses

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with ^uthe two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face ^vshone because he had been talking with God.⁴ 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face ^wshone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he ^xcommanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a ^yveil over his face.

34 Whenever Moses ^zwent in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was ^ashining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

17 By faith ^jAbraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, ^k“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 ^lHe considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 20 By faith ^mIsaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith ⁿJacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, ^obowing in worship over the head of his staff. 22 By faith ^pJoseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

23 By faith ^qMoses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of ^rthe king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, ^srefused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 ^tchoosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy ^uthe fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 ^vHe considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to ^wthe reward. 27 By faith he ^xleft Egypt, ^ynot being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured ^zas seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith ^ahe kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

29 By faith ^bthe people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30 By faith ^cthe walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith ^dRahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she ^ehad given a friendly welcome to the spies.