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1 - He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

2 - Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.”

3 - Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

4 - Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 - He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

6 - Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 - He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

8 - Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

9 - Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

10 - They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

11 - He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

12 - Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

13 - Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

14 - He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

15 - Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

16 - Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 - The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 - Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.