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target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But <i>rather,</i> you are to tear down their altars and smash their <i>sacred</i> pillars and cut down their Asherim <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>for you shall not worship any other god, for the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons <i>also</i> to play the harlot with their gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>You shall make for yourself no molten gods. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem <i>it,</i> then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; <i>even</i> during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, <i>that is,</i> the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>, the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God.<br>      You shall not boil a young goat in its mothers milk. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses, Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So he was there with the L<font size="1">ORD</font> forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Moses Face Shines</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony <i>were</i> in Moses hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them <i>to do</i> everything that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>But whenever Moses went in before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/34-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/34.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/exodus/34.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/34.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/34.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/34.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/34.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/blessed_and_tragic_unconsciousness.htm">Blessed and Tragic Unconsciousness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'... Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.'--EXODUS xxxiv. 29. '... And Samson wist not that the Lord had departed from him.'--JUDGES xvi. 20. The recurrence of the same phrase in two such opposite connections is very striking. Moses, fresh from the mountain of vision, where he had gazed on as much of the glory of God as was accessible to man, caught some gleam of the light which he adoringly beheld; and a strange radiance sat on his face, unseen by himself, but <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/blessed_and_tragic_unconsciousness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/god_proclaiming_his_own_name.htm">God Proclaiming his Own Name</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.'--EXODUS xxxiv. 6. This great event derives additional significance and grandeur from the place in which it stands. It follows the hideous act of idolatry in which the levity and sinfulness of Israel reached their climax. The trumpet of Sinai had hardly ceased to peal, and there in the rocky solitudes, in full view of the mount 'that burned with fire,' <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/god_proclaiming_his_own_name.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_9_1863/a_jealous_god.htm">A Jealous God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. Reverently, let us remember that THE LORD IS EXCEEDINGLY JEALOUS OF HIS DEITY. Our text is coupled with the command--"Thou shalt worship no other God." When the law was thundered from Sinai, the second commandment received force from the divine jealousy--"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_9_1863/a_jealous_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 9: 1863</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xi_the_knowledge_that.htm">The Knowledge that God Is, Combined with the Knowledge that He is to be Worshipped. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">John iv. 24.--"God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." There are two common notions engraven on the hearts of all men by nature,--that God is, and that he must be worshipped, and these two live and die together, they are clear, or blotted together. According as the apprehension of God is clear, and distinct, and more deeply engraven on the soul, so is this notion of man's duty of worshipping God clear and imprinted on the soul, and whenever the actions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_xi_the_knowledge_that.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ellicott/addresses_on_the_revised_version_of_holy_scripture/address_iv_nature_of_the.htm">Nature of the Renderings</a><br></span><span class="snippet">From the text we now turn to the renderings, and to the general principles that were followed, both in the Old and in the New Testament. The revision of the English text was in each case subject to the same general rule, viz. "To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness"; but, owing to the great difference between the two languages, the Hebrew and the Greek, the application of the rule was necessarily different, and the results <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ellicott/addresses_on_the_revised_version_of_holy_scripture/address_iv_nature_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">C. J. Ellicott—</span><span class="citation2">Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/elijahs_weakness_and_its_cube.htm">Elijah's Weakness, and Its Cube</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. 3. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/elijahs_weakness_and_its_cube.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xiv_that_the_righteousness.htm">"That the Righteousness of the Law Might be Fulfilled in Us. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 4.--"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us." God having a great design to declare unto the world both his justice and mercy towards men, he found out this mean most suitable and proportioned unto it, which is here spoken of in the third verse,--to send his own Son to bear the punishment of sin, that the righteousness of the law might be freely and graciously fulfilled in sinners. And, indeed, it was not imaginable by us, how he could declare both in the salvation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xiv_that_the_righteousness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whyte/lord_teach_us_to_pray/v_mosesmaking_haste.htm">Moses --Making Haste</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Lord, teach us to pray."--Luke xi. 1. "And Moses made haste . . ."--Ex. xxxiv. 8. THIS passage is by far the greatest passage in the whole of the Old Testament. This passage is the parent passage, so to speak, of all the greatest passages of the Old Testament. This passage now open before us, the text and the context, taken together, should never be printed but in letters of gold a finger deep. There is no other passage to be set beside this passage till we come to the opening passages of the New <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whyte/lord_teach_us_to_pray/v_mosesmaking_haste.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Whyte—</span><span class="citation2">Lord Teach Us To Pray</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_ii_the_christians_god.htm">The Christian's God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Scripture References: Genesis 1:1; 17:1; Exodus 34:6,7; 20:3-7; Deuteronomy 32:4; 33:27; Isaiah 40:28; 45:21; Psalm 90:2; 145:17; 139:1-12; John 1:1-5; 1:18; 4:23,24; 14:6-11; Matthew 28:19,20; Revelation 4:11; 22:13. WHO IS GOD? How Shall We Think of God?--"Upon the conception that is entertained of God will depend the nature and quality of the religion of any soul or race; and in accordance with the view that is held of God, His nature, His character and His relation to other beings, the spirit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_ii_the_christians_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Studies in the Life of the Christian</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/jehovah_the_i_am.htm">Jehovah. The "I Am. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEN Moses in the desert beheld the burning bush God answered his question by the revelation of His name as the "I Am." "And God said unto Moses, I am, that I am: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you" (Exod. iii:14). He who spake thus out of the bush to Moses was the same who in the fullness of time appeared upon the earth in the form of man. Our Lord Jesus Christ is no less person, than the I AM. If we turn to the fourth Gospel in which the Holy <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/jehovah_the_i_am.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arno Gaebelein—</span><span class="citation2">The Lord of Glory</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/the_true_manner_of_keeping.htm">The True Manner of Keeping Holy the Lord's Day. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Now the sanctifying of the Sabbath consists in two things--First, In resting from all servile and common business pertaining to our natural life; Secondly, In consecrating that rest wholly to the service of God, and the use of those holy means which belong to our spiritual life. For the First. 1. The servile and common works from which we are to cease are, generally, all civil works, from the least to the greatest (Exod. xxxi. 12, 13, 15, &c.) More particularly-- First, From all the works of our <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/the_true_manner_of_keeping.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../exodus/34-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 34:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 34:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/34-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 34:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 34:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/exodus/34-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>