The Lord said to Moses: “Cut two stone tablets like the former, that I may write on them the words which were on the former tablets that you broke."

"Get ready for tomorrow morning, when you are to go up Mount Sinai and there present yourself to me on the top of the mountain."

"No one shall come up with you, and let no one even be seen on any part of the mountain; even the sheep and the cattle are not to graze in front of this mountain.”

Moses then cut two stone tablets like the former, and early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, taking in his hand the two stone tablets.

The Lord came down in a cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “Lord.”

So the Lord passed before him and proclaimed: The Lord, the Lord, a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love and fidelity, continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Moses at once knelt and bowed down to the ground.

Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.”