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Exodus 34:26-28
New English Translation
Exodus 34:26-28
New English Translation
26 “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”[a]
27 The Lord said to Moses, “Write down[b] these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights;[c] he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.[d]
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- Exodus 34:26 sn See the note on this same command in 23:19.
- Exodus 34:27 tn Once again the preposition with the suffix follows the imperative, adding some emphasis to the subject of the verb.
- Exodus 34:28 tn These too are adverbial in relation to the main clause, telling how long Moses was with Yahweh on the mountain.
- Exodus 34:28 tn Heb “the ten words,” though “commandments” is traditional.
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