Exodus 19:10–19

¹⁰And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and ^rsanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them ^swash their clothes, ¹¹and be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord ^twill come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. ¹²And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: ^uwhosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: ¹³there shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the ^xtrumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. ¹⁴And Moses ^ywent down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵And he said unto the people, ^zBe ready against the third day: ^acome not at your wives. ¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were ^bthunders and lightnings, and a ^cthick cloud upon the mount, and the ^dvoice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp ^etrembled. ¹⁷And ^fMoses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. ¹⁸And mount Sinai ^gwas altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it ^hin fire: ⁱand the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and ^kthe whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹And ^lwhen the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and ^mGod answered him by a voice.