Study Desk

Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself ^(C1)two stone tablets like the former ones, and ^(C2)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you smashed.

"So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to ^(C1)Mount Sinai, and ^(F1)present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.

"And ^(C1)no one is to come up with you, nor let anyone be seen ^(F1)anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to graze in front of that mountain."

So he cut out ^(C1)two 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.

And ^(C1)the LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he ^(F1)called upon the name of the LORD.

Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, ^(C1)compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in faithfulness and ^(F1)truth;

who ^(C1)keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He ^(C2)will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, ^(C3)inflicting the ^(F1)punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."

And Moses hurried ^(F1)(C1)to bow low toward the ground and worship.

Then he said, "^(C1)If in any way I have found favor in Your sight, Lord, please may the Lord go along in our midst, even though ^(F1)(C2)the people are so obstinate, and ^(C3)pardon our wrongdoing and our sin, and ^(C4)take us as Your own ^(F2)possession."