The Sayings of God

Do Not Mix Meat with Milk

Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 34:26

Every Firstling of a Womb is Mine

You are to safeguard the festival of unleavened bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I have commanded you, in the appointed month of Spring, because in the month of Spring, you left Egypt. Every firstling of a womb is mine - hence, all cattle which is a male firstling of an ox or sheep. But you are to redeem a firstling donkey with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. Redeem every firstborn of your sons, and do not appear before me empty-handed. You may work for six days, but you are to rest on the seventh day. Make a Sabbath in plough-time and in harvest, and make the festival of weeks, for yourself, of the first-fruit of the wheat harvest - and the festival of ingathering at its time of the year. Three times a year, all your males will appear before the Lord, the Eternal, God of Israel, for I will dispossess nations from before you and widen your borders. Yet, no man will desire your land while you ascend to appear before the Eternal three times a year. Do not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leaven. And do not leave the Passover festival sacrifice until morning. Bring the best of the first-fruits of your land to the house of the Eternal your God.
- Exodus 34:18-26

He is a Jealous God

Now, I am making a contract. I will do wonders before your people which have not been created in all the earth or in all of the nations. All the people among whom you are will see the work of the Eternal, because what I will do with you, it is fearful. Safeguard for yourself that which I command you today. Here, I am driving out from before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Be on guard yourself or you may make a treaty with the inhabitant of the land to which you come. Perhaps, he will be a trap in your midst. Therefore, you are to demolish their alters, break their statues and cut their groves, because you may not bow to another god, because the Eternal - his name is jealous. He is a jealous God. Perhaps, you would make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land. They solicit their gods and sacrifice to their gods. He would call on you. You would eat from his sacrifice. You would take from his daughters for your sons. His daughters solicit their gods. Your sons would solicit their gods. Do not make molten gods for yourself! - Exodus 34:10-17

Compassionate, Gracious, Slow to Anger

The Eternal is the Eternal, God, compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abundant in mercy and truth, showing mercy to the thousandth generation, bearing iniquity, transgression and sin, and not destroying the innocent, punishing the iniquity of fathers on their children and on their children's children, until the third and the fourth generations. - Exodus 34:6-7

Chisel Two Stone Tablets

Chisel, for yourself, two stone tablets like the first. I will write the words on the tablets which were on the first tablets which you broke. Be prepared in the morning. You will ascend to Mount Sinai and station yourself there, for me, on top of the mountain. But no man may ascend with you. And also, no man may be seen in all the mountain. Also, the sheep and the cattle may not graze opposite that mountain. - Exodus 34:1-3

You Will See My Back

Here is a place by me. Station yourself on the rock. When my splendor passes, I will place you in the crevice of the rock, and I will cover my hand over you until I pass. Then, I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.
- Exodus 33:21-23

You Are Not Able to See My Face

You are not able to see my face, because man may not see me and live. - Exodus 33:20

I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious

I will pass all my goodness by your face and will call the Eternal before you by name. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will be compassionate to whom I will be compassionate. - Exodus 33:19

You Have Found Favor in My Eyes

Also, I will do this thing of which you have spoken, because you have found favor in my eyes, and I know you by name. - Exodus 33:17

My Presence Will Accompany You

My presence will go. I will let you rest. - Exodus 33:14

Cast Off Your Jewelry

Say to the children of Israel: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to ascend among you for one minute, I would devour you. Therefore now, cast off your jewelry. I will know what to do with you. - Exodus 33:5

To a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey

Go! Ascend from this, you and the people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt to the land which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying: I will give it to your descendants. I will send a messenger before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite - to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not ascend among you, because you are a stiff-necked people. Perhaps, I would devour you on the way. - Exodus 33:1-3