Exodus 34:1-9

1Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself 1two stone tablets like the former ones, and 2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed. 2So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to 3Mount Sinai, and 4present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. 3And 5no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen 6anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.” 4So he cut out 7two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. 5And 8the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he 9called upon the name of the Lord. 6Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, 10compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and 11truth; 7who 12keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He 13will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, 14inflicting the 15punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8And Moses hurried 1617to bow low toward the ground and worship. 9Then he said, “18If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though 1920the people are so obstinate, and 21pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and 22take us as Your own 23possession.”