² Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.^(A) Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.

²⁰ The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai^(A) and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up

¹¹ and be ready by the third day,^(A) because on that day the Lord will come down^(B) on Mount Sinai^(C) in the sight of all the people.

²⁵ I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights^(A) because the Lord had said he would destroy you.^(B)

¹² The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone^(A) with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

²⁴ The Lord replied, “Go down and bring Aaron^(A) up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”^(B)