⁷And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.

⁸And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

⁹Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:

¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

¹¹Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

¹²And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

¹³Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,

¹⁴Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

¹⁵And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.

¹⁶And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.

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