Exodus 24:1-11

The Voice

³ Moses then went and told the people exactly what the Eternal had said, and he carefully laid out God’s instructions. All the people answered as if they had one, single voice.

⁴ Moses wrote down in great detail everything that the Eternal had said. Then early the next morning he woke up and constructed an altar at the foot of the mountain and erected twelve stone pillars.^[a] Each pillar represented one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ Moses directed some of the young men of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the Eternal. ⁶ He gathered half of the blood from the animals and filled the basins with it. He sprinkled the other half of the blood against the altar. ⁷ Then Moses took the book of the covenant—the very instructions spoken to him by God—and read it aloud so all the people could hear.

⁸ Moses took the blood of the sacrifices and sprinkled it on the gathered people.

⁹ Then Moses took Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders and went up the mountain. ¹⁰ There they saw Israel’s God. Beneath His feet, there appeared to be paving stones of sapphire, as pure and clear as the sky above. ¹¹ But God did not raise His hand against the leaders of Israel to strike them down. They beheld the True God, and they feasted and drank in His presence.