Exodus Chapter 24 Back Next{24:1} He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and
Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the
elders of
Israel; and worship from a distance.
{24:2} Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
{24:3} Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
{24:4} Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an
altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
{24:5} He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered
burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of
cattle to Yahweh.
{24:6} Moses took half of the
blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
{24:7} He took the book of the
covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
{24:8} Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
{24:9} Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
{24:10} They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of
sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
{24:11} He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
{24:12} Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the
law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
{24:13} Moses rose up with
Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.
{24:14} 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."
{24:15} Moses went up on the mountain, and the
cloud covered the mountain.
{24:16} The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
{24:17} The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring
fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
{24:18} Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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