8. Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped
9. and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10. He said, “See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
11. “Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12. Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.
13. Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
14. For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15. Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
16. and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
17. You must not make yourselves molten gods.
18. “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
19. “Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.
20. Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.“No one will appear before me empty-handed.
21. “On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.