So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the [a]judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, (A)“All the words which the Lord has said we will do.” And Moses (B)wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve (C)pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered (D)burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses (E)took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he (F)took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is (G)the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

On the Mountain with God

Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10 and they (H)saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of (I)sapphire stone, and it was like the (J)very[b] heavens in its clarity. 11 But on the nobles of the children of Israel He (K)did not [c]lay His hand. So (L)they saw God, and they (M)ate and drank.

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, (N)“Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you (O)tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”

13 So Moses arose with (P)his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 24:3 ordinances
  2. Exodus 24:10 Lit. substance of heaven
  3. Exodus 24:11 stretch out His

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