Exodus 24:6–18

⁶Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he splattered on the altar. ⁷He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey all that the Lord has commanded.”

⁸Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”^g

⁹Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders, ¹⁰and they saw^h the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.^{i 11}God did not harm^I the Israelite nobles; they saw^j him, and they ate and drank.

¹²The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets^k with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

¹³So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.^{l 14}He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them.” ¹⁵When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud^m covered it. ¹⁶The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from the cloud.^{n 17}The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire^o on the mountaintop. ¹⁸Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.^p