Torah Moshe 2: Shemot Exodus Chapter 34

"Pesal (hew) lekha shenei(two) lukhot (tablets) Avanim (stones) like to the rishon: and I will write upon [these] lukhot ha Devarim that were in the lukhot rishonim, which you brakest.

34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai (סיני), and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

34:3 And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

34:4 And he pesal shenei lukhot avanim like to ha rishon; and Mosheh rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinai (סיני), as YEHOVAH (יהוה) had commanded him, and took in his hand the shenei lukhot avanim.

Hashem Reveals the Attributes of His Mercy

34:5 And YEHOVAH (יהוה) descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of YEHOVAH (יהוה).

34:6 And YEHOVAH passed by before him, and proclaimed, YEHOVAH (יהוה), YEHOVAH (יהוה) Elohim (אלהים), merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth [generation].

34:8 And Mosheh made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Adonay, let my Adonay, I pray you, go among us; for it [is] am kesheh oref (stiffnecked people); and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

34:10 (vi) And he said: Hinei, I make a Brit: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which you [art] shall see the work of YEHOVAH (יהוה): for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with you.

34:11 Shomer you that which I command you this day: hinei, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Kenaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Yevusite.

34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest you make a brit with the inhabitants of the land whither you goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

34:13 But you shall destroy their mizbeach (altar), break their images, and cut down their groves:

34:14 For you shall worship no other el (god): for YEHOVAH (יהוה), whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a EL Kana:

34:15 Lest you make a brit with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do zevach (sacrifice) to their gods, and [one] call you, and you eat of his zevach (sacrifice);

34:16 And you take of their daughters to thy ben, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy ben go a whoring after their gods.

Seven days you shall eat Matzah, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Aviv: for in the month Aviv you camest out from Mitzrayim.

34:19 All that open the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].

34:20 But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you redeem [him] not, then shall you break his neck. All the bachor of thy ben you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

34:21 Six days you shall work, but on the yom hashevi'i (7th day) you shall rest: in earing time and in harvest you shall rest.

34:22 And you shall Shomer the Chag Shavuot (weeks), of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

34:23 Three times a year shall all your men children appear before YEHOVAH (יהוה) ELOHIM (אלהים), the Elohim of Yisrael.

34:24 For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when you shall go up to appear before YEHOVAH (יהוה) thy Elohim thrice in the year.

34:25 You shall not offer the blood of My zevach (sacrifice) with chametz (leaven); neither shall the zevach (sacrifice) of the feast of the Pesach be left to the morning.

34:26 The reshit bikkurei (first of the firstfruits) of thy land you shall bring to the house of YEHOVAH (יהוה) Eloheicha. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Renewal of the Brit

*34:28 And he was there with YEHOVAH(יהוה) forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the devar of the brit, the ten mitzvot.

34:29 And it came to pass, when Mosheh came down from mount Sinai (סיני) with the two tables of testimony in Mosheh' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Mosheh wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

34:30 And when Aharon and all Benai Yisrael saw Mosheh, hinei, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

34:31 And Mosheh called to them; and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him: and Moshe talked with them.

34:32 And afterward all Benai Yisrael came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that YEHOVAH (יהוה) had spoken with him in mount Sinai (סיני).

And [till] Mosheh had done speaking with them, he put a Poreket (vail, curtain) on his face.

34:34 But whenever Mosheh went in before YEHOVAH (יהוה) to speak with Him, he would take off the veil , until he came out. And whenever he came out, and spoke to Benai Yisrael what he was commanded.

34:35 And Benai Yisrael saw the face of Mosheh, that the skin of Mosheh' face shone: and Mosheh put the Poreket (vail, curtain) upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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Rambam has divided this statement into two separate mitzvot; namely, the cooking of a kid in its own mother’s milk (n186) and the eating of a kid that was cooked in its own mother’s milk (n187). To kill the nursing kid and then to cook the kid in its own mother’s milk is to turn the only symbol of life that the animal knows (i.e. the mother’s milk) into the mechanism of death for the animal. Life, therefore, becomes synonymous with death. By cooking a kid in its own mother’s milk one would be “mixing” life and death. Generally, therefore, that would be the application of these mitzvot – that we may not mix life and death.

Torah Mosheh 2:

Shemot / שׁמות

Exodus Chapter 34

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Hashem Reveals the Attributes of His Mercy

Renewal of the Brit

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