Exodus 19:10–19

¹⁰And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.

¹¹And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

¹²And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount, dying he shall die.

¹³No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.

¹⁴And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

¹⁵He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

¹⁶And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared.

¹⁷And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

¹⁸And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

¹⁹And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.