1 The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and ^lI will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ^mwhich you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 3 ⁿNo one 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 ^owent up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5 ^pThe Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ^qproclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 ^rThe Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^s“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 ^tkeeping steadfast love for thousands,^{1 u}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will ^vby no means clear the guilty, ^wvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go ^xin the midst of us, for it is a ^ystiff-necked people, and ^zpardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your ^ainheritance.”