Exodus 24

¹ And he saidsaid to MosesMoses, Come up to the Lordthe Lord, you and AaronAaron, and NadabNadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefschiefs of IsraelIsrael; and give me worshipworship from a distance.

² And MosesMoses only may come nearnear to the Lordthe Lord; but the others are not to come nearnear, and the people may not come up with them.

³ Then MosesMoses camecame and putput before the people all the wordswords of the Lordthe Lord and his lawslaws: and all the people, answeringanswering with oneone voicevoice, saidsaid, Whatever the Lordthe Lord has saidsaid we will do.

⁴ Then MosesMoses putput down in writingwriting all the wordswords of the Lordthe Lord, and he got up earlyearly in the morningmorning and made an altaraltar at the foot of the mountainmountain, with twelve pillarspillars for the twelve tribes of Israeltwelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ And he sentsent some of the young menyoung men of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael to make burned offeringsofferings and peacepeace-offeringsofferings of oxenoxen to the Lordthe Lord.

⁶ And MosesMoses took halfhalf the bloodblood and putput it in basins; draining out halfhalf of the bloodblood over the altaraltar.

⁷ And he took the bookbook of the agreement, reading it in the hearinghearing of the people: and they saidsaid, Everything which the Lordthe Lord has saidsaid we will do, and we will keep his lawslaws.

⁸ Then MosesMoses took the bloodblood and let it come on the people, and saidsaid, This bloodblood is the sign of the agreement which the Lordthe Lord has made with you in these wordswords.

⁹ Then MosesMoses and AaronAaron, NadabNadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefschiefs of IsraelIsrael went up:

¹⁰ And they sawsaw the GodGod of IsraelIsrael; and underunder his feetfeet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavensheavens.

¹¹ And he putput not his handhand on the chiefs of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael: they sawsaw GodGod, and took food and drinkdrink.

¹² And the Lordthe Lord saidsaid to MosesMoses, Come up to me on the mountainmountain, and take your place there: and I will givegive you the stonesstones on which I have putput in writingwriting the law and the ordersorders, so that you may givegive the people knowledge of them.

¹³ Then MosesMoses and JoshuaJoshua his servant got up; and MosesMoses went up into the mountainmountain of GodGod.

¹⁴ And he saidsaid to the chiefschiefs, Keep your places here till we come backback to you: AaronAaron and HurHur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him gogo to them.

¹⁵ And MosesMoses went up into the mountainmountain, and it was coveredcovered by the cloudcloud.

¹⁶ And the glory of the Lordthe Lord was resting on MountMount SinaiSinai, and the cloudcloud was over it for six dayssix days; and on the seventh dayday he saidsaid MosesMoses' name out of the cloudcloud.

¹⁷ And the glory of the Lordthe Lord was like a flameflame on the top of the mountainmountain before the eyeseyes of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

¹⁸ And MosesMoses went up the mountainmountain, into the cloudcloud, and was there for fortyforty daysdays and fortyforty nightsnights.