From Exodus, chapter 33 deals with God ordering Moses and the Israelites to leave Mount Sinai and go to the land He had promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
At first, the Lord told Moses that He would send an angel to accompany the people and that He would not go with them. But Moses convinces God that He must go with them, for that is the only to distinguish God's people from everyone else they'll encounter.
God agreed.
In chapter 34, Moses cuts a second set of stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments will be written. Moses then went up to the top of Mount Sinai, where he stayed for forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. When he came down, his face "shone" and had to wear a veil.
Starting with chapter 35 and going through the end of the book in chapter 40, much of the same laws spelled out before were repeated, with the most skilled laborers assigned to construct the Tent for the Lord. Inside the Tent was the Ark of the Covenent, in which lied the stone tablets Moses had cut earlier with the Ten Commandments.
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