Exodus 24

¹ He saidsaid to MosesMoses, "Come up to YahwehYahweh, you, and AaronAaron, NadabNadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israelelders of Israel; and worshipworship from a distance.

² MosesMoses alone shall come nearnear to YahwehYahweh, but they shall not come nearnear, neither shall the people go upgo up with him."

³ MosesMoses camecame and told the people all the wordswords of YahwehYahweh, and all the ordinancesordinances; and all the people answeredanswered with oneone voicevoice, and saidsaid, "All the wordswords which YahwehYahweh has spokenspoken will we do."

⁴ MosesMoses wrotewrote all the wordswords of YahwehYahweh, and rose uprose up earlyearly in the morningmorning, and builtbuilt an altaraltar underunder the mountainmountain, and twelve pillarspillars for the twelve tribes of Israeltwelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ He sentsent young menyoung men of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, who offered burnt offeringsofferings and sacrificed peacepeace offeringsofferings of cattle to YahwehYahweh.

⁶ MosesMoses took halfhalf of the bloodblood and putput it in basins, and halfhalf of the bloodblood he sprinkled on the altaraltar.

⁷ He took the book of the covenantbook of the covenant and read it in the hearinghearing of the people, and they saidsaid, "All that YahwehYahweh has spokenspoken will we do, and be obedient."

⁸ MosesMoses took the bloodblood, and sprinkled it on the people, and saidsaid, "Look, this is the blood of thethe blood of the covenant, which YahwehYahweh has made with you concerning all these wordswords."

⁹ Then MosesMoses, AaronAaron, NadabNadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israelelders of Israel went up.

¹⁰ They sawsaw the GodGod of IsraelIsrael. UnderUnder his feetfeet was like a paved workwork of sapphire stonesapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

¹¹ He didn't lay his handhand on the nobles of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael. They sawsaw GodGod, and ateate and drankdrank.

¹² YahwehYahweh saidsaid to MosesMoses, "Come up to me on the mountainmountain, and stay here, and I will givegive you the tables of stonestone with the law and the commands that I have writtenwritten, that you may teach them."

¹³ MosesMoses rose uprose up with JoshuaJoshua, his servant, and MosesMoses went up onto God'sGod's MountainMountain.

¹⁴ He saidsaid to the elderselders, "Wait here for usus, until we come again to you. Behold, AaronAaron and HurHur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can gogo to them."

¹⁵ MosesMoses went up on the mountainmountain, and the cloudcloud coveredcovered the mountainmountain.

¹⁶ The glory of YahwehYahweh settled on MountMount SinaiSinai, and the cloudcloud coveredcovered it six dayssix days. The seventh dayday he calledcalled to MosesMoses out of the midstmidst of the cloudcloud.

¹⁷ The appearance of the glory of YahwehYahweh was like devouring firefire on the top of the mountainmountain in the eyeseyes of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

¹⁸ MosesMoses enteredentered into the midstmidst of the cloudcloud, and went up on the mountainmountain; and MosesMoses was on the mountainmountain fortyforty daysdays and fortyforty nightsnights.