from a distance.
2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near,
neither shall the people go up with him.”
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.”
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. 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who
offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood
he sprinkled on the altar. 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.”
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.”
9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel
went up. 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved
work of sapphire*1 stone, like the skies for clearness. 11 He didn’t lay his
hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and
drank.
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.”
13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s
Mountain. 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.”
15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
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.
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. 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.
1 or, lapis lazuli
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