23. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
24. For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.
25. “Do not present the blood for My sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.
26. “Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27. 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.”
28. Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
29. As Moses descended from Mount Sinai — with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain — he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.
30. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.
31. But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32. Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them to do everything the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai.
33. When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
34. But whenever Moses went before the Lord to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,
35. and the Israelites would see that Moses’ face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went to speak with the Lord.