Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship
from afar. Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but the others
shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”
Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all
the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said,
“All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.” And Moses
wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning
and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of
the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. And Moses took half of the
blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against
the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the
hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken
we will do, and we will be obedient.” And Moses took the blood and
threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant
that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these
words.”
Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under
his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very
heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men
of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait
there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and
the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” So
Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the
mountain of God. And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until
we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever
has a dispute, let him go to them.”
Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the
mountain. The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud
covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out
of the midst of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the
LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the
sight of the people of Israel. Moses entered the cloud and went up
on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty
nights.
