Exodus 24:3–11

³Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.” ^y4And Moses wrote ^zdown all the words of the Lord. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain. ⁵Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord. ⁶Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey everything that the Lord has commanded.”

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

⁹Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, ¹⁰and they saw ^bthe God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire ^cstone, as clear as the sky itself. ^d11God did not harm ^ethe Israelite nobles; they saw ^fHim, and they ate and drank.