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And the Lord said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone, as also the first were and come up to me to the mountain; and I will write upon the tables the words, which were on the first tables which thou brokest. ²And be ready by the morning, and thou shalt go up to the mount Sina, and shalt stand there for me on the top of the the mountain. ³And let no one go up with thee, nor be seen in all the mountain; and let not the sheep and oxen feed near that mountain. ⁴And Moses hewed two tables of stone, as also the first were; and Moses having arisen early, went up to the mount Sina, as the Lord appointed him; and Moses took the two tables of stone. ⁵And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called ¹ by the name of the Lord. ⁶And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the children's children to the third and fourth generation. ⁸And Moses hasted, and bowed to the earth and worshipped; ⁹and said, If I have found grace before thee, let my Lord go with us; for the people is

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and there fell of the people in that day to the number of three thousand men. ²⁹Moses said to them, Ye have filled your hands this day to the Lord each one on his son or on his brother, so that blessing should be given to you.

³⁰And it came to pass after the morrow had begun, that Moses said to the people Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to God, that I may make atonement for your sin. ³¹ And Moses returned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves golden gods. ³²And now if thou ² wilt forgive their sin, forgive it; and if not, blot me out of thy book, which thou hast written. ³³And the Lord said to Moses, If any one has sinned against me, I will blot them out of my book. ³⁴ And now go, descend, and lead this people into the place of which I spoke to thee: behold, my angel shall go before thy face; and in the day when I shall visit I will bring upon them their sin. ³⁵And the Lord smote the people for the making the calf, which Aaron made.