Exodus 24:12-18

Expanded Bible

God Promises Moses the Stone Tablets

¹² The Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me. Wait there, and I will give you two stone tablets [^Cperhaps two copies of the Ten Commandments]. On these are the ·teachings [laws; instructions] and the commands I have written to instruct the people.”

¹³ So Moses and his ·helper [assistant] Joshua ·set out [^Lgot up], and Moses went up to ·Sinai, the mountain of God [^Lthe mountain of God]. ¹⁴ Moses said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone who ·has a disagreement with others [has many words/a dispute; ^Lis a master of words] can take it to them.”

Moses Meets with God

¹⁵ When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud [^Crepresenting God’s presence] covered it. ¹⁶ The glory of the Lord [^Crepresenting his manifest presence] ·came down [^Lsettled] on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud. ¹⁷ To the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] the glory of the Lord looked like a fire burning on top of the mountain. ¹⁸ Then Moses went into the cloud and went higher up the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.