Exodus 24:3–11

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.