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In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt , on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai :
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For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai , they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain .
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And Moses went up to God : and the Lord called unto him from the mountain , and said : Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob , and tell the children of Israel :
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You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians , how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles , and have taken you to myself.
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If therefore you will hear my voice , and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
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And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation . Those are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel .
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Moses came , and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded .
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And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken , we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord ,
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The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud , that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever . And Moses told the words of the people to The Lord .
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And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day , and to morrow , and let them wash their garments .
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And let them be ready against the third day : for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai .
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And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about , and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the mount , and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die .
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No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast , or man , he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount .
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And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments ,
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He said to them: Be ready against the third day , and come not near your wives .
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And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount , and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud , and the people that was in the camp , feared.
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And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the place of the camp , they stood at the bottom of the mount .
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And all mount Sinai was on a smoke : because the Lord was come down upon it in fire , and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
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And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke , and God answered him.
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And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai , in the very top of the mount , and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,
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He said unto him: Go down , and charge the people: lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord , and a very great multitude of them should perish.
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The priests also that come to the Lord , let them be sanctified , lest he strike them.
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And Moses said to the Lord : The people cannot come up to mount Sinai : for thou did charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount , and sanctify it.
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And the Lord said to him: Go , get thee down : and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord , lest he kill them.