Exodus 24
1 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders, and bow down from a distance.
2 Moses alone will come near the LORD; the others must not come near, and the people must not come up with him.”
3 Moses went and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the regulations. The whole people answered with one voice, “We will do all the words that the LORD has spoken.”
4 Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He got up early and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
6 Moses took half the blood and put it in bowls; he splashed the other half of the blood against the altar.
7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, “We will do and obey everything the LORD has spoken.”
8 Moses took the blood, splashed it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you, on the basis of all these words.”
9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders.
10 They saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was something like a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
11 He did not raise his hand against the leaders of the Israelites. They saw God, and they ate and drank.
12 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there. I will give you the stone tablets, with the law and the commandment that I have written to instruct them.”
13 Moses set out with Joshua, his assistant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.
14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called Moses from the middle of the cloud.
17 To the Israelites, the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire at the top of the mountain.
18 Moses entered the middle of the cloud and went up the mountain. Moses stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
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