What happensPermalink
Moses makes two more tablets and takes them up the mountain. God passes before him to show him His glory. Moses prayes for forgiveness, and God renews His covenant, repeating His commands. Moses returns down the mountain with his face shining.
Why it mattersPermalink
God proclaims His own nature when He passes by Moses: “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” Moses’s forty-day fast again foreshadows Jesus’s fasting in the wilderness. His face reflects God’s radiance.
Key versePermalink
And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”