EXODUS 34

MOSES MEETS GOD ON MOUNT SINAI 

Moses makes new tablets for the commandments and meets God on the mountain alone. 

God reminds Moses of His character, that God is both merciful and just. He renews the covenant with Moses and tells him that the Israelites will see and experience awesome marvels never seen before. 

God warns Moses that the Israelites are not to sleep with the Canaanites or worship their gods. He also reminds Moses of the importance of the Sabbath and the unleavened bread. 

Moses is on the mountain for forty days and forty nights and does not eat or drink. Right before Jesus began His earthly ministry, He went into the wilderness and fasted for forty days and nights. God used fasting to prepare both Moses and Jesus for their mission to deliver His people. 

When Moses comes down from the mountain, his face is shining because he spoke face-to-face with God. God’s presence is that powerful! Moses puts a veil over his face but removes it when he is speaking with God.

Exodus 34:6-7 - The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.