Replacement Tablets (Exodus 34)

What other stipulations did God require of Israel under this covenant?

You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, nor are you to allow the sacrifice of the Festival of Passover to remain until morning. You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the Lord your God. You are not to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. (Exodus 34:25-26 ISV)

How long was Moses on the mountain this time? What were the words of the covenant?

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. (Exodus 34:27-28 KJV)

Why were people afraid to come near Moses after he came down from the mountain?

Now it happened when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. (Exodus 34:29-30 LSB)

What did Moses do to his face when he finished speaking with the people?

Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them. Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. (Exodus 34:31-33 NASB)

What did Moses do with the veil when he went in to speak with the Lord?

But whenever he entered the Lord’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord. (Exodus 34:34-35 NIV)

What light does Jesus expect to shine from our lives?

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16 NKJV)

What internal light does Jesus expect to find in us? Does where our eyes are focused have anything to do with that light?

Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light. (Luke 11:34-36 NLT)

Does God sometimes require a do over after we have broken things? How great is God’s mercy? Do we let our light shine from within? You decide!