1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye
afar off.
2 And
Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither
shall the people go up with him.
3 And
Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments:
and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the
LORD hath said will we do.
4 And
Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and
builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve
tribes of Israel.
5 And
he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and
sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
6 And
Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar.
7 And
he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and
they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And
Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these
words.
9 Then
went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel:
10 And
they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work
of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And
upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw
God, and did eat and drink.
12 And
the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I
will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have
written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And
Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of
God.
14 And
he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you:
and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters
to do, let him come unto them.
15 And
Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And
the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And
the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the
mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And
Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and
Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
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