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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 24
1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh,
you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy ofthe elders ofIsrael; and worship
from a distance.
2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The
people shall not 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, “Allthe words which Yahweh has
spoken will we do.”
4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then
rose up early in the morning and built an
altar at the base of the mountain, with
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, “We will do all that Yahweh has
said, 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 thatIhave 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
middle 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 middle of the
cloud, and went up on the mountain; and
Moses was on the mountain forty days and
forty nights.
Word English Bible
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