1 AT that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
8 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.
11 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

1 At that time the Lord said vnto me, Hew thee two Tables of stone, like vnto the first, and come vp vnto mee into the mount, and make thee an Arke of wood.

2 And I will write on the Tables the words that were in the first Tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke.

3 And I made an Arke of Shittim wood, and hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and went vp into the mount, hauing the two Tables in mine hand.

4 And he wrote on the Tables, according to the first writing, the tenne Commandements, which the Lord spake vnto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gaue them vnto me.

5 And I turned my selfe and came downe from the mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made, and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

6 And the children of Israel tooke their iourney from Beeroth, of the children of Iaakan, to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his sonne ministred in the Priests office in his stead.

7 From thence they iourneyed vnto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Iotbath, a land of riuers of waters.

8 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Leui, to beare the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name, vnto this day.

9 Wherefore Leui hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, fortie dayes, and fortie nights: and the Lord hearkened vnto mee at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.

11 And the Lord said vnto me, Arise, take thy iourney before the people, that they may goe in, and possesse the land which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them.

12 And now Israel, what doeth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lord thy God, to walke in all his waies, and to loue him, and to serue the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soule,

13 To keepe the Commandements of the Lord, and his Statutes, which I commaund thee this day for thy good?

14 Behold, the heauen, & the heauen of heauens is the Lords thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

15 Onely the Lord had a delight in thy fathers, to loue them, and hee chose their seed after them, euen you, aboue all people, as it is this day.

16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and bee no more stiffenecked.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

18 He doeth execute the iudgement of the fatherlesse, and widow, and loueth the stranger, in giuing him food and raiment.

19 Loue yee therefore the stranger: for yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serue, and to him shalt thou cleaue, and sweare by his Name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes haue seene.

22 Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with threescore and ten persons: and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the starres of heauen, for multitude.

II == Ex 25:16 , 21

 

 

 

 

III == Ex 25:5 , 10 ; 34:4 ; 37:1

 

 

IV == Ex 19:17 ; 9:10 ; 18:16 ; 34:28

 

 

V == Ex 34:29 ; 40:20 ; 1st Kings 8:9

 

VI == Num 20:28 ; 33:30-31 , 38

 

 

 

VII == Num 33:32-33

 

VIII == Lev 9:22 ; Num 3:6

 

 

IX == Num 18:20 , 24 ; Deut 18:1-2 ; Ezek 44:28

 

X == Ex 32:14, 33-34 ; 33:17 ; 34:28 ; Deut 9:10 , 18 , 25

XI == Ex 32:34 ; 33:1

 

 

XII == Deut 5:33 ; 6:5 , 13 ; 11:13 ; 30:16 , 20 ; Mic 6:8 ; Matt 22:37 ; Lk 10:27

 

XIII == Deut 6:24

XIV == Gen 14:19 ; Ex 19:5 ; 1st Kings 8:27 ; Ps 24:1 ; 115:16 ; 148:4 ; 1st Peter 2:9

XIV == Gen 14:19 ; Ex 19:5 ; 1st Kings 8:27 ; Ps 24:1 ; 115:16 ; 148:4

XV == Deut 4:37

XVI == Lev 26:41 ; Deut 9:6 , 13 ; 30:6 ; Jer 4:4 ; Rom 2:28-29 ; Col 2:11

XVII == Josh 22:22 ; 2nd Chr 19:7 ; Acts 10:34 ; Rom 2:11 ; Gal 2:6 ; Eph 6:9 ; Col 3:25 ; 1st Tim 6:15 ; Rev 17:14 ; 19:16

XVIII == Ps 68:5 ; 146:9

XIX == Lev 19:33-34

XX == Deut 6:13 ; 13:4 ; Ps 63:11 ; Matt 4:10 ; Luke 4:8

XXI == 2nd Sam 7:23 ; Ps 22:3

XXII == Gen 15:5 ; 46:27 ; Ex 1:5 ; Acts 7:14 Heb 11:12

 

1 "At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut two tablets of stone like the former; then come up the mountain to me. Also make an ark of wood.

2 I will write upon the tablets the commandments that were on the former tablets that you broke, and you shall place them in the ark.'

3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the former, and went up the mountain carrying the two tablets.

4 The LORD then wrote on them, as he had written before, the ten commandments which he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. After the LORD had given them to me,

5 I turned and came down the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. There they have remained, in keeping with the command the LORD gave me.

6 (The Israelites set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, his son Eleazar succeeding him in the priestly office.

7 From there they set out for Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah for Jotbathah, a region where there is water in the wadies.)

8 "At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to be in attendance before the LORD and minister to him, and to give blessings in his name, as they have done to this day.

9 For this reason, Levi has no share in the heritage with his brothers; the LORD himself is his heritage, as the LORD, your God, has told him.

10 "After I had spent these other forty days and forty nights on the mountain, and the LORD had once again heard me and decided not to destroy you,

11 he said to me, 'Go now and set out at the head of your people, that they may enter in and occupy the land which I swore to their fathers I would give them.'

12 "And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul,

13 to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?

14 Think! The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.

15 Yet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so attached to them as to choose you, their descendants, in preference to all other peoples, as indeed he has now done.

16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and be no longer stiff-necked.

17 For the LORD, your God, is the God of gods, the LORD of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes;

18 who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.

19 So you too must befriend the alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.

20 The LORD, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve; hold fast to him and swear by his name.

21 He is your glory, he, your God, who has done for you those great and terrible things which your own eyes have seen.

22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy strong, and now the LORD, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

v 1-5. Here Moses continues the account of making an ark and hewing out two more stones on which God wrote the ten commandments again. Then Moses came down and put them in the ark.
The third time the commandments are given, the tables are made by Moses and the law is again written by the hand of the Lord, 34:1 and Deut 10:1-4. Confusion exists because in Ex. 34:27 the Lord says to Moses, “Write thou” and verse 28 “he wrote”. This is not a conflict with verse 1 and Deut. 10:1-4. It is simply that God wrote the ten commandments and Moses wrote the ceremonial parts given in Ex 34:11-26 as he did in Ex. 24:4 and read them in 24:7.

 

 

v 6,7. The journey is interrupted by the death and burial of Aaron. As we saw in Ex. 29:29,30, the period of consecration for a new high priest was seven days, so they would have been delayed during the consecration of Eleazar, the third son. The older two, Nadab and Abihu had a place of prominence, in Ex. 24, but in Lev. 10:1, they disobeyed in offering strange fire and the Lord destroyed them. 

v 8-11. There were two periods of 40 days in the mount and two intercessions.
1st 40 days in mountain, Deut 9:9,10, and ten commandments given in stone.
2nd 40 days in prayer, Deut. 9:19-25, praying the Lord would not destroy Aaron and the people for making the golden calf. This was not on the mount.
3rd 40 days in mountain getting second set of tablets and interceding for people.
When the second period in the mount is over the Lord commanded to journey on.

v 12,13. Compare this with Micah 6:8 for even more impressive wording.

 

 

 

 

v 14-17. The Lord is great and awesome, the creator of all things and all things are His, yet He chose this people above all others. (Today’s believers are chosen of the Lord.) In view of that, they should cut off all things in which their hearts are rebellious and stubborn against the Lord.

 

 

 

v 18-22. Though He is great, God cares for fatherless widows and temporary residents. That is what Israel was in Egypt, so it behooves them to have compassion for sojourners. Israel should fear and adhere closely to God because of all He had done for them including their multiplication in Egypt. They had increased there from 70 to very numerous, perhaps 2 -3 million. There is no certainty as to exactly how they figured 70 people (household-hundreds total). A widely accepted solution is that the Hebrew text includes Jacob, Joseph and Joseph’s two sons, a total of 70, but the Septuagint omits Jacob and Joseph but includes Joseph’s seven grandchildren mentioned in 1 Chron. 7:14,15, 20-25. This is supported by the Hebrew in Gen. 48:8-26 which enumerates 66 names, omitting Jacob, Joseph, and Joseph’s two sons. There are other feasible solutions, but the important thing was pointing out the relatively small number and how they multiplied rapidly.
Moses went up the mountain Sinai Ex. 19:3.  He went down 19:7
He went up 19:8   He went down 19:14   He went up 19:20   He went down 19:25
Moses drew near but did not go up 20:21, ordered up 24:1 but still down 24:3.
He went up 4:9  

He didn’t go down till 32:15 
He went up 32;30,31           

He went down between 33:3 and 33:4
He went up 34:4     He went down 34:28  After that the Lord spoke directly, and in 32:49 Moses was told to go up Mount Nebo, which he did in 34:1 and there died