Exodus 24
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The Covenant Sealed

1He 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.+ 2Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”+ 3Moses 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.”+ 4Moses 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.+ 5He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.+ 6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.+ 7He 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.”+ 8Moses 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.”+ 9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.+ 10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.+ 11He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.+

Moses on the Mountain

12Yahweh 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.”+ 13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.+ 14He 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.”+ 15Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.+ 16Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.+ 17The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.+ 18Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.+
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  1. a 24:10 or, lapis lazuli

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