Exodus 24

¹ And he saidsaid to MosesMoses: Come up to the Lordthe Lord, thou, and AaronAaron, NadabNadab, and Abiu, and seventy of the ancientsancients of IsraelIsrael, and you shall adoreadore afar off.

² And MosesMoses alone shall come up to the Lordthe Lord, but they shall not come nighnigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

³ So MosesMoses camecame and told the people all the wordswords of the Lordthe Lord, and all the judgmentsjudgments: and all the people answeredanswered with oneone voicevoice: We will do all the wordswords of the Lordthe Lord, which he hath spokenspoken.

⁴ And MosesMoses wrotewrote all the wordswords of the Lordthe Lord: and risingrising in the morningmorning he builtbuilt an altaraltar at the foot of the mountmount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israeltwelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ And he sentsent young menyoung men of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calvescalves to the Lordthe Lord.

⁶ Then MosesMoses took halfhalf of the bloodblood, and putput it into bowls: and the rest he poured upon the altaraltar.

⁷ And taking the book of the covenantbook of the covenant, he read it in the hearinghearing of the people: and they saidsaid: All thingsAll things that the Lordthe Lord hath spokenspoken we will do, we will be obedient.

⁸ And he took the bloodblood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he saidsaid: This is the blood of thethe blood of the covenant which the Lordthe Lord hath made with you concerning all these wordswords.

⁹ Then MosesMoses and AaronAaron, NadabNadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancientsancients of IsraelIsrael went up:

¹⁰ And they sawsaw the GodGod of IsraelIsrael: and underunder his feetfeet as it were a workwork of sapphire stonesapphire stone, and as the heavenheaven, when clear.

¹¹ Neither did he lay his handhand upon those of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, that retired afar off, and they sawsaw GodGod, and they did eateat and drinkdrink.

¹² And the Lordthe Lord saidsaid to MosesMoses: Come up to me into the mountmount, and be there: and I will givegive thee tables of stonestone, and the law, and the commandmentscommandments which I have writtenwritten: that thou mayst teach them.

¹³ MosesMoses rose uprose up, and his ministerminister JosueJosue: and MosesMoses going up into the mountmount of GodGod,

¹⁴ SaidSaid to the ancientsancients: Wait ye here till we returnreturn to you. You have AaronAaron and HurHur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

¹⁵ And when MosesMoses was gone up, a cloudcloud coveredcovered the mountmount.

¹⁶ And the glory of the Lordthe Lord dwelt upon SinaiSinai, coveringcovering it with a cloudcloud six dayssix days: and the seventh dayday he calledcalled him out of the midstmidst of the cloudcloud.

¹⁷ And the sightsight of the glory of the Lordthe Lord was like a burningburning firefire upon the top of the mountmount, in the eyeseyes of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

¹⁸ And MosesMoses, entering into the midstmidst of the cloudcloud, went up into the mountainmountain: and he was there fortyforty daysdays, and fortyforty nightsnights.