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Exodus 34:11The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:19Deut 10:1-4Exod 31:18Ps 119:89Exod 34:28Deut 9:15-17Exod 32:16
Exodus 34:22Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:20Deut 9:25Exod 19:11Exod 19:24Exod 24:12
Exodus 34:33No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:12-13Exod 19:211 Tim 2:5Heb 12:20Lev 16:17
Exodus 34:44So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 34:55The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 33:19Exod 33:9Luke 9:34-35Num 11:25Num 11:17Prov 18:10Ps 102:21Deut 32:3Exod 19:18Isa 1:10
Exodus 34:66The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 86:15Joel 2:13Ps 103:8-13Ps 145:8Neh 9:17Jonah 4:2Num 14:17-19Ps 86:52 Chr 30:9Mic 7:18
Exodus 34:77keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:5-6Ps 103:3Deut 5:9-10Eph 1:71 John 1:9Nah 1:2-3Num 14:18-23Jer 32:18Ps 130:4Dan 9:9
Exodus 34:88Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshipedCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:312 Chr 20:18Gen 17:3
Exodus 34:99and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 33:12Deut 32:9Ps 94:14Exod 33:13-17Jer 10:16Ps 135:4Ps 28:9Exod 32:9Exod 19:5Ps 78:62
Exodus 34:1010He said, “See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:21Ps 77:14Isa 64:3Ps 66:5Jer 32:212 Sam 7:23Ps 66:3Ps 78:12Josh 10:12-13Deut 32:30
Exodus 34:1111“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 33:2Deut 6:25-7:1Exod 3:17Deut 6:3Exod 3:8Gen 15:18-21Deut 12:28Deut 12:32Deut 28:1Deut 4:1-2
Exodus 34:1212Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:32-33Josh 23:12-13Deut 7:2Deut 7:16Judg 2:2-3Ps 106:36Judg 8:27
Exodus 34:1313Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:4Deut 7:25-26Deut 7:5Exod 23:24Deut 12:2-3Deut 16:212 Chr 31:12 Chr 34:3-42 Kgs 23:14Judg 2:2
Exodus 34:1414For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:24Deut 32:211 Cor 10:22Exod 20:3-5Matt 4:10Nah 1:2Deut 29:20Deut 6:15Deut 32:16Exod 34:5-7
Exodus 34:1515Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 2:171 Cor 8:4Deut 31:16Num 25:2Ps 106:281 Cor 10:271 Cor 8:101 Cor 8:7Exod 34:12Jer 3:9
Exodus 34:1616and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:2-4Deut 7:3-4Ezra 9:2Neh 13:25Num 25:1-2Neh 13:232 Cor 6:14-17
Exodus 34:1717You must not make yourselves molten gods.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:4Exod 32:8Isa 46:6-7Acts 17:29Acts 19:26Jer 10:14
Exodus 34:1818“You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:4Lev 23:6Deut 16:1-4Exod 13:6-7Acts 12:3Exod 12:15-20Exod 12:2Exod 23:15Luke 22:1Mark 14:1
Exodus 34:1919“Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:2Exod 22:29Exod 13:12Num 18:15-17Ezek 44:30Luke 2:23
Exodus 34:2020Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. “No one will appear before me empty-handed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:13Deut 16:16Exod 23:15Exod 13:15Num 18:151 Sam 9:7-82 Sam 24:24Exod 13:10Num 3:45-51
Exodus 34:2121“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:121 Sam 8:12Deut 21:4Exod 35:2Luke 13:14Deut 5:12-15Isa 30:24Luke 23:56Exod 20:9-11Gen 45:6
Exodus 34:2222“You must observe the Feast of Weeks—the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat—and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:16Deut 16:10-15John 7:2Num 28:16-31Acts 2:1Num 29:12-39
Exodus 34:2323At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:14Deut 16:16Exod 23:17Gen 32:28Gen 33:20Ps 84:7
Exodus 34:2424For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:55Exod 33:21 Chr 4:10Acts 18:10Deut 12:20Prov 16:7Deut 19:8Deut 7:1Exod 23:27-31Gen 35:5
Exodus 34:2525“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the Feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:18Exod 12:101 Cor 5:7-8Deut 16:3Exod 12:20Exod 12:8Num 9:12Exod 29:34Lev 7:15
Exodus 34:2626“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:19Deut 14:21Deut 26:21 Cor 15:20Deut 26:10Matt 6:33Prov 3:9-10Jas 1:18
Exodus 34:2727The Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:4Deut 31:9Deut 4:13Exod 17:14Exod 24:7Exod 34:10
Exodus 34:2828So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:1Deut 4:13Deut 9:18Deut 9:25Exod 24:18Exod 31:18Exod 32:162 Cor 3:7Deut 9:9Deut 10:2-4
Exodus 34:2929Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand —when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 17:2Luke 9:29Exod 32:15Rev 1:162 Cor 3:132 Cor 3:7-9Rev 10:1Acts 6:15John 5:13Acts 12:9
Exodus 34:3030When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 9:3Luke 5:8Mark 9:15Num 12:8
Exodus 34:3131But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:15Exod 24:1-3Gen 45:15Gen 45:3
Exodus 34:3232After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 11:231 Cor 15:31 Kgs 22:14Exod 21:1Exod 24:3Matt 28:20Num 15:40
Exodus 34:3333When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:4-62 Cor 3:13-18Rom 10:4
Exodus 34:3434But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:16Heb 10:19-22Heb 4:16
Exodus 34:3535When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:29-30Dan 12:3Eccl 8:1John 5:35Matt 13:43Matt 5:16Phil 2:15
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