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1 He said
to Moses, “Come
up to the
LORD, you,
and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and
seventy of the
elders of Israel;
and worship from
a distance.
2 Moses alone
shall come near
to the LORD,
but they shall
not come near.
The people shall
not go up
with him.”
3 Moses
came and told
the people all
the LORD’s words,
and all the
ordinances; and
all the people
answered with one
voice, and said,
“All the words
which the LORD
has spoken will
we do.”
4 Moses
wrote all the
LORD’s words, then
rose up early
in the morning
and built an
altar at the base
of the mountain,
with twelve
pillars for the
twelve tribes of
Israel.
5 He
sent young men
of the children
of Israel, who
offered burnt
offerings and
sacrificed peace
offerings of cattle
to the LORD.
6 Moses
took half of
the blood and
put it in basins,
and half of
the blood he
sprinkled on the
altar.
7 He
took the book
of the covenant
and read it
in the hearing
of the people,
and they said, “We
will do all
that the LORD
has said, and
be obedient.”
8 Moses
took the blood,
and sprinkled it
on the people,
and said, “Look,
this is the
blood of the
covenant, which
the LORD has
made with you
concerning all
these words.”
9 Then
Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu,
and seventy of
the elders of
Israel went up.
10 They
saw the God
of Israel. Under
his feet was
like a paved
work of sapphire
stone, like
the skies for
clearness.
11 He didn’t
lay his hand
on the nobles of
the children of
Israel. They saw
God, and ate and
drank.
12 The
LORD said to Moses,
“Come up to
me on the
mountain, and stay
here, and I
will give you
the stone tablets
with the law
and the commands
that I have
written, that you
may teach them.”
13 Moses
rose up with
Joshua, his
servant, and Moses
went up onto God’s
Mountain.
14 He
said to the
elders, “Wait here
for us, until
we come again
to you. Behold,
Aaron and Hur are
with you. Whoever
is involved in a
dispute can go
to them.”
15 Moses
went up on
the mountain, and
the cloud covered
the mountain.
16 The
LORD’s glory
settled on Mount
Sinai, and the
cloud covered it
six days. The
seventh day he
called to Moses
out of the
middle of the
cloud.
17 The
appearance of the
LORD’s glory was
like devouring fire on
the top of
the mountain in
the eyes of
the children of
Israel.
18 Moses
entered into the
middle of the
cloud, and went
up on the
mountain; and
Moses was on
the mountain forty
days and forty
nights.