Exodus
34: 1
The
Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I
will write on them the [same] words that were on the first tablets, which
you broke
Exodus
34: 11b
I
will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Hivites, and Jebusites (Cp. Exodus 23: 23).
Exodus
34: 13-14
Break
down their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any
other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God (Cp. Exodus 20: 3, 5b, 23a; 23: 24b).
Exodus
34: 15
Be
careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land (Cp. Exodus 23:32).
Exodus
34: 17
Do
not make cast idols (Cp. Exodus 20: 4, 23??).
Exodus
34: 18
Celebrate
the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread without yeast, as I
commanded you (Cp. Exodus 13: 6-7).
Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you
came out of Egypt (Cp. Exodus 13:
3-4; 23: 15).
Exodus
34: 19-20
The
first offspring of every womb belongs to me [the Lord], including all the
firstborn males of your livestock, whether from the herd or flock (Cp. Exodus 13: 12). Redeem your firstborn
sons.
NOTE: This latter
part of verse twenty is not found in the earlier version, as well as verse
nineteen; which is found in the thirteenth chapter of Exodus.
Exodus
34: 20b
No
one is to appear before the Lord empty handed (Cp. Exodus 23: 15b).
Exodus
34: 21
Six
days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during
plowing season and harvest you must rest (Cp. Exodus 20: 9-11; 23: 12).
Exodus
34: 22-23
Celebrate
the Feast of Weeks with the first-fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of
Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your men are to
appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel (Cp. Exodus 23: 16-17).
Exodus
34: 25
Do
not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast;
and do not let any of the sacrifice from the “Passover Feast” remain until
morning (Cp. Exodus 23: 18).
NOTE: The Passover
Feast is not mentioned in the previous account, but only “the fat of my
festival offerings”??
Exodus
34: 26
Bring
the best of the first-fruits of your spoil to the house of the Lord your God
(Cp. Exodus 23: 19).
Exodus
24: 6b
Do
not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk (Cp. Exodus 23: 19b).Exodus 34: 27, 28b
Then
the Lord said to Moses, “Write down [all] these words, for in
accordance to these words I have made a covenant with you and Israel. And he
wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant- The Ten Commandments
(Cp. Exodus 24: 12).
After
Exodus 20: 18 thru 23: 13 appears to be an addition to the
original Ten Commandments of Exodus 20.
I surmise that Exodus 23: 14-33 is a somewhat
altered repetition of the first set of Ten Commandments. Interestingly, or I
might say oddly, Exodus 24: 7 says, “The
he [Moses] took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. So, the
words graven on stone tablets (“Ten Commandments”) in Exodus 20 are now, or
become part of a book four chapters later. Then from Exodus 25 thru 34: 1, 27, 28b there are more instructions that are
in themselves more amendments. So, it is not unreasonable to accept that the Ten
Commandments were edited and expanded upon from the point when these
instructions were initially given, by some unknown redactor or priestly scribe
throughout generations to accommodate the evolving religious, cultural, social,
and historical development of this mixed heterogeneous grouping of a specific
offshoot of Canaanite clans called Hebrews or Israelites.
Robert
Randle
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October 28, 2016
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