24Exodus 24

1He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.Select Exodus 24:1

2Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.”Select Exodus 24:2

3Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”Select Exodus 24:3

4Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.Select Exodus 24:4

5He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.Select Exodus 24:5

6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.Select Exodus 24:6

7He 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.”Select Exodus 24:7

8Moses 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.”Select Exodus 24:8

9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.Select Exodus 24:9

10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.Select Exodus 24:10

11He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.Select Exodus 24:11

12Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”Select Exodus 24:12

13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.Select Exodus 24:13

14He 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.”Select Exodus 24:14

15Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.Select Exodus 24:15

16Yahweh’s glory 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.Select Exodus 24:16

17The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.Select Exodus 24:17

18Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.Select Exodus 24:18