1 YHVH said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.
2 Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
3 No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain."
4 So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as YHVH had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
5 And YHVH descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of YHVH.
6 YHVH passed before him, and proclaimed, "YHVH, YHVH, a god merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
8 And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 And he said, "If now I have found favor in thy sight, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance."
10 And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of YHVH; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
11 "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Canaanite in Aramaic means one who exists in and for material things. The other names are all tribes of Canaan. Amorite, one of the Canaanite tribes, means mountaineers but it has to do with the generative function. Hittite, another Canaanite tribe means sundered and symbolized thoughts of opposition. Perizzite means rustic or dweller in the country and stands for lower life forces. Hivite means physical existence and signifies carnal thoughts. Finally, Jebusite means profaned or polluted. These are all people and you will remember we said that people symbolize thoughts in the Bible. So, YHVH, or the spiritual consciousness, must drive out all of these lower, carnal and material thoughts.
12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.
13 You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Asherim
14 (for you shall worship no other god, for YHVH, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous god),
15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,
16 and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their god and make your sons play the harlot after their god.
On a practical level, ignoring the spiritual paths of others is a good way to preserve the integrity of your own religious or magick system, in this case, it was the one Moses was teaching the people of Israel. However, I've always found the behavior advocate here absolutely repulsive. Let others walk their paths in peace, so long as they are not harming you or yours.
17 "You shall make for yourself no molten god.
This is a hypocritical "commandment", since the ark of the covenant contains, on the orders of YHVH, an idol in the image of two cherubim engaged in sexual intercourse. In other words, these commandments were intended as a guide, not as laws that were supposed to be blindly followed. It is unfortunate that many people are not intelligent enough to understand this.
18 "The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
19 All that opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and sheep.
20 The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.