Exodus 24:3–11

³Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s commands and all the ordinances, and all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the Lord has said.” ⁴Moses wrote down all the Lord’s commands. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵Then he sent young men, and they burnt sacrifices to the Lord and sacrificed some cattle as fellowship offerings. ⁶Moses took half the blood of the animals and put it in bowls; and the other half he threw against the altar. ⁷Then he took the book of the covenant, in which the Lord’s commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, “We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded.”

^8*Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, “This is the blood that seals the covenant which the Lord made with you when he gave all these commands.”

⁹Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 of the leaders of Israel went up the mountain ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was what looked like a pavement of sapphire, as blue as the sky. ¹¹God did not harm these leading men of Israel; they saw God, and then they ate and drank together.