Exodus 34:1-9
Stone Tablets like the Former Ones
34Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Carve out for yourself atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and bI will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered. 2“So be prepared by morning, and come up in the morning to aMount Sinai, and 1present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. 3“aAnd no man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen 1anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain.” 4So he carved out atwo stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand. 5aThen Yahweh descended in the cloud and stood there with him, and 1He called upon the name of Yahweh. 6Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, acompassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and 1truth; 7who akeeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He bwill by no means leave the guilty unpunished, cvisiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8And Moses made haste 1,ato bow low toward the earth and worship. 9And he said, “aIf now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though 1,bthey are a stiff-necked people, and cpardon our iniquity and our sin, and dtake us as Your own inheritance.”