Exodus 34:27

JPS Old Testament

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.'

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to Moshe, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Yisra'el."

King James Version
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Write for yourself these words, because according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

New Century Version
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write down these words, because with these words I have made an agreement with you and Israel."

New English Translation
The Lord said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenour of these words I haue made a couenant with thee & with Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have cut a covenant with you and with Israel."

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses to put these laws in writing, as part of his agreement with Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
(vii) Adonai said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said to Moses, Write thee these words; for after the tenor of these words have I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write everything that I have told you. This is the agreement that I made with you and the Israelites."

English Standard Version
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."

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, Write these words; for by these words I have made a covenant with you and with all Israel.

Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses, "Write these words down, because it is on the basis of these words that I am making a covenant with you and with Israel."

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.”

Literal Translation
And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words for yourself, for on the mouth of these words I will cut a covenant with you and with Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE saide vnto Moses: wryte these wordes, for because of these wordes haue I made a couenaunt with the & with Israel.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Write these wordes, for after the tenour of these wordes, I haue made a couenaunt with thee and with Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenour of these wordes, I haue made a couenant with thee, and with Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD also said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to Moises, Write thou these wordis, bi whiche Y smoot a boond of pees, bothe with thee and with Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Write for thyself these words, for, according to the tenor of these words I have made with thee a covenant, and with Israel.'

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to Moses, You write these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee, and with Israel.

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

New King James Version
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write down all these instructions, for they represent the terms of the covenant I am making with you and with Israel."

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses, "Write these words. For by these words I have made an agreement with you and with Israel."

New Revised Standard
The Lord said to Moses: Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write for thyself these words, for according to the tenor of these words, have I solemnized with thee, a covenant, and with Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

THE MESSAGE
God said to Moses: "Now write down these words, for by these words I've made a covenant with you and Israel."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. ¹⁹ All that openeth the womb is Mine; and of all thy cattle thou shalt sanctify the males, the firstlings of ox and sheep. ²⁰ And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty. ²¹ Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. ²² And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. ²³ Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders; neither shall any man covet thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year. ²⁵ Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. ²⁶ The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.' ²⁷ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Write: Exodus 17:14, Exodus 24:4, Exodus 24:7, Deuteronomy 31:9

I have: Exodus 34:10, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 31:9

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:9 - when Romans 9:4 - covenants Galatians 3:19 - in Hebrews 8:9 - the covenant Hebrews 8:10 - I will put

Cross-References

Genesis 34:2
And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 34:31
And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

Exodus 2:14
And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'

Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

Joshua 7:13
Up, sanctify the people, and say: Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: There is a curse in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoil a goodly Shinar mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

Esther 9:10
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews' enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.

Esther 9:16
And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand--but on the spoil they laid not their hand--

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Being still with him on the mount:

write thou these words; expressed in the preceding verses, from

Exodus 34:11, as he before had written in a book all those laws, contained in Exodus 21:1 called the book of the covenant,

Exodus 24:4 and which perhaps might be destroyed, as well as the two tables were broken; and therefore upon the renewal of the covenant here, there is a repetition made of the principal laws before given, which are ordered also to be written in a book, which may very well be called by the same name, since it follows:

for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel, with Moses, as their representative and mediator, and with them represented by him: what is above related carries in it the form of a covenant between them, God having declared on his part what he would do for them, and what laws and rules he required to be observed on their part; which Moses assented to in their name, and was ordered to write them down, that he might repeat them to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; see Exodus 24:7).

Exodus 34:13

Cut down their groves - This is the first reference to what is commonly known as grove-worship. The original word for “grove” in this connection אשׁרה 'ăshêrāh is different from that so rendered in Genesis 21:33. Our translators supposed that what the law commands is the destruction of groves dedicated to the worship of false deities Judges 6:25; 2 Kings 18:4; but inasmuch as the worship of asherah is found associated with that of Astarte, or Ashtoreth Judges 2:13; Jdg 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, it seems probable that while Astarte was the personal name of the goddess, the asherah was a symbol of her, probably in some one of her characters, made in wood in some conventional form.

Exodus 34:15-16

An expansion of Exodus 34:12. The unfaithfulness of the nation to its covenant with Yahweh is here for the first time spoken of as a breach of the marriage bond. The metaphor is, in any case, a natural one, but it seems to gain point, if we suppose it to convey an allusion to the abominations connected with pagan worship, such as are spoken of in Numbers 25:1-3.

Exodus 34:21

See Exodus 20:9; Exodus 23:12. There is here added to the commandment a particular caution respecting those times of year when the land calls for most labor. The old verb “to ear” (i. e. to plow) is genuine English.

Exodus 34:24

Neither shall any man desire etc. - Intended to encourage such as might fear the consequences of obeying the divine law in attending to their religious duties. Compare Proverbs 16:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 34:27. Write thou these words — Either a transcript of the whole law now delivered, or the words included from Exodus 34:11-26. God certainly wrote the ten words on both sets of tables. Moses either wrote a transcript of these and the accompanying precepts for the use of the people, or he wrote the precepts themselves in addition to the ten commandments which were written by the finger of God. Exodus 34:1. Allowing this mode of interpretation, the accompanying precepts were, probably, what was written on the back side of the tables by Moses; the ten commandments, what were written on the front by the finger of Jehovah: for we must pay but little attention to the supposition of the rabbins, that the letters on each table were cut through the stone, so as to be legible on each side. Exodus 32:15.