^{27 Ref} Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

^{28 Ref} He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

^{29 Ref} It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

^{30 Ref} When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

^{31 Ref} Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.

^{32 Ref} Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.

^{33 Ref} When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

^{34 Ref} But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

^{35 Ref} The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.