5. And יהוה came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name, יהוה.
6. And יהוה passed before him and proclaimed, “יהוה, יהוה, an Ěl compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in kindness and truth,
7. watching over kindness for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
8. And Mosheh hurried and bowed himself toward the earth, and did obeisance,
9. and said, “If, now, I have found favour in Your eyes, O יהוה, I pray, let יהוה go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
10. And He said, “See, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I am going to do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of יהוה. For what I am doing with you is awesome.
11. “Guard what I command you today. See, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Kena‛anite and the Ḥittite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite.
12. “Guard yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.
13. “But break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕrim –
14. for you do not bow yourselves to another mighty one, for יהוה, whose Name is jealous, is a jealous Ěl –
15. lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they whore after their mighty ones, and slaughter to their mighty ones, and one of them invites you and you eat of his slaughterings,