The Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.

Exodus 34:1-17

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. 

Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash 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.

The tablets are engraved afresh in token of God's renewal of the covenant. This particular selection of laws is influenced by Israel's recent idol-worship, also by the coming temptations of the Canaanite religion. 

Why?

The Lord renews his covenant with Moses, God is pleased with Moses for his name and his heart, his mind.

The Lord said who he is. the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin.

The Lord reminds Moses his people obey what the Lord commanded. Then the Lord will drive out all the people before them in the promised land. Do not make treaties with them and do not worship any other god. But Israelites failed to obey this command later.

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33章摩西向神祈求。後來神同意了。原來的約因為拜金牛，這約破壞了，因此約必須重新立定。

第一部份： 立約的預備，準備兩塊石板。這次沒有帶任何人上山。人失去見到神的權柄，連煙雲也無法見到。

神宣告他的屬性： 是有憐憫有恩典的神，不輕易發怒，並有豐盛的慈愛和誠實。認識一個人比記得他的臉更重要。摩西知道以色列人真正需要的是神的同在，屬於神。我們若屬於神，就沒有缺乏。

第二部份：不可隨從別的神，積極的除去他們的偶像，逐出他們否則是害到他們自己。不可和迦南人立約。不可與迦南人通婚。要不惜任何代價除去這些環境因素，我們不能影響罪惡的環境，最後會被環境影響。

人一直在破壞這個約，神卻一直在守約，修復這個約。神是忌邪的神。神極看重我們與祂的關係，如同夫妻關係。多體貼神的心，多為神的國、神的義禱告。

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How?

For the Lord is a jealous God and does not worship any other god. The Lord always will be my first priority in my life.