Exodus 19:16–25

¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were ^bthunders and lightnings, and a ^cthick cloud upon the mount, and the ^dvoice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp ^etrembled. ¹⁷And ^fMoses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. ¹⁸And mount Sinai ^gwas altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it ^hin fire: ⁱand the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and ^kthe whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹And ^lwhen the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and ^mGod answered him by a voice. ²⁰And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. ²¹And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, ^†charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord ⁿto gaze, and many of them perish. ²²And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, ^osanctify themselves, lest the Lord ^pbreak forth upon them. ²³And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou ^†chargedst us, saying, ^qSet bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. ²⁴And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. ²⁵So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.