出埃及 24
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
在西奈山立约
24 耶和华又指示摩西说：“你和亚伦、拿答、亚比户及以色列的七十位长老上我这里来，远远地敬拜我。 2 只有你可以靠近我，其他人，包括全体百姓，都不得走近。”
3 摩西下山把耶和华的话和法令都告诉百姓，百姓齐声回答：“我们愿意遵行耶和华的一切吩咐。” 4 摩西把耶和华的这些话记录下来。第二天清晨，摩西在山脚筑了一座坛，立了十二根柱子代表以色列的十二支派。 5 他又吩咐以色列的青年去给耶和华献燔祭，又献上公牛作平安祭。 6 摩西把祭牲的血一半放在盆里，一半洒在坛上。 7 他又把约书念给百姓听，百姓听了都说：“我们愿意遵行耶和华的一切吩咐，我们愿意顺服。” 8 摩西便把盆中的血洒在百姓身上，说：“这是立约的血，是耶和华按所说的话与你们立约的凭据。”
9 之后，摩西、亚伦、拿答、亚比户及七十位长老便上了山。 10 他们都看见了以色列的上帝，祂的脚下好像是一片蓝宝石，像天一样明净。 11 上帝没有伸手杀这些以色列的首领，允许他们看见祂，在祂面前吃喝。
12 耶和华对摩西说：“你上山到我这里来，留在这里，我要把写着律法和诫命的石版赐给你，你可以用来教导百姓。” 13 于是，摩西带着他的助手约书亚动身上了上帝的山。 14 离开之前，摩西吩咐长老说：“你们在这里等候我们回来。亚伦和户珥跟你们在一起，百姓当中有什么诉讼的事情，可以交给他们处理。”
15 摩西上了山，密云遮盖着整座山。 16 耶和华的荣耀停留在西奈山上，密云遮盖了山六天。第七天，耶和华在云中召唤摩西。 17 在以色列人眼中，耶和华的荣耀在山上好像烈火。 18 摩西上到山上，走进云中，在那里停留了四十昼夜。
Exodus 24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 24
Ratification of the Covenant. 1 Moses himself was told: Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You shall bow down at a distance. 2 Moses alone is to come close to the Lord; the others shall not come close, and the people shall not come up with them.
3 When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the Lord, they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has told us.”(A) 4 Moses then wrote down all the words of the Lord and, rising early in the morning, he built at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve sacred stones[a] for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 (B)Then, having sent young men of the Israelites to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice young bulls as communion offerings to the Lord, 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar. 7 Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the Lord has said, we will hear and do.” 8 Then he took the blood and splashed it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”
9 Moses then went up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel, 10 and they beheld the God of Israel. Under his feet there appeared to be sapphire tilework, as clear as the sky itself. 11 Yet he did not lay a hand on these chosen Israelites. They saw God,[b] and they ate and drank.
Moses on the Mountain. 12 The Lord said to Moses: Come up to me on the mountain and, while you are there, I will give you the stone tablets(C) on which I have written the commandments intended for their instruction. 13 So Moses set out with Joshua, his assistant, and went up to the mountain of God. 14 He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are with you. Anyone with a complaint should approach them.” 15 Moses went up the mountain. Then the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the Lord settled upon Mount Sinai. The cloud covered it for six days, and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.(D) 17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord was seen as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain.(E) 18 But Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up on the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.(F)
Footnotes
- 24:4 Sacred stones: stone shafts or slabs, erected as symbols of the fact that each of the twelve tribes had entered into this covenant with God; see 23:24; Gn 28:18.
- 24:11 They saw God: the ancients thought that the sight of God would bring instantaneous death. Cf. 33:20; Gn 16:13; 32:31; Jgs 6:22–23; 13:22. Ate and drank: partook of the sacrificial meal.
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