Exodus 24

Chapter 24

People Affirm Their Covenant with God

¹Then He said to Moses, “^aCome up to the Lord, you and Aaron, ^bNadab and Abihu and ^cseventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

²“Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

³Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ¹ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “^aAll the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!”

^4aMoses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an ^baltar ¹at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵He sent young men of the sons of Israel, ^aand they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.

^6aMoses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

⁷Then he took ^athe book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “^bAll that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

⁸So ^aMoses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold ^bthe blood of the covenant, which the Lord has ¹made with you ²in accordance with all these words.”

⁹Then Moses went up ¹with Aaron, ^aNadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

¹⁰and ^athey saw the God of Israel; and under His feet ^1bthere appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, ²as clear as the sky itself.

¹¹Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and ^athey saw God, and they ate and drank.

¹²Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and ¹remain there, and ^aI will give you the stone tablets ²with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

¹³So Moses arose ¹with ^aJoshua his ²servant, and Moses went up to ^bthe mountain of God.

¹⁴But to the elders he said, “^aWait here for us until we return to you. And behold, ^bAaron and Hur are with you; whoever ¹has a legal matter, let him approach them.”

¹⁵Then Moses went up to the mountain, and ^athe cloud covered the mountain.

^16aThe glory of the Lord ¹rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He ^bcalled to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

^17aAnd to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a ^bconsuming fire on the mountain top.

¹⁸Moses entered the midst of the cloud ¹as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain ^aforty days and forty nights.