Crisis Resolved: The Name of the Lord · Exodus 34 is the theological center of the book of Exodus. The stone tablets with the Ten Commandments, which Moses broke in anger in Exodus 32:19, are remade (vv. 1–4, 27–29). The Lord proclaims the divine name with a full description of who God is in the world. God responds to the golden calf crisis by promising to be a forgiving God in their midst. The Lord then describes how this forgiveness would function (vv. 5–9). The text reiterates representative laws from the book of the covenant and the Ten Commandments (vv. 10–28). Finally, we see the glory of God revealed in Moses’ radiant face (vv. 29–35). The summaries and resolutions of tension in this chapter serve as a microcosm of Exodus. The richly layered narrative combines themes of the confront…