¹⁸Now ^zall the people ^awitnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain ^bsmoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. ¹⁹Then they said to Moses, ^c“You speak with us, and we will hear; but ^dlet not God speak with us, lest we die.”

²⁰And Moses said to the people, ^e“Do not fear; ^ffor God has come to test you, and ^gthat His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” ²¹So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near ^hthe thick darkness where God was.

The Law of the Altar

²²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘You have seen that I have talked with you ⁱfrom heaven. ²³You shall not make anything to be ^jwith Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves. ²⁴An altar of ^kearth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, ^lyour sheep and your oxen. In every ^mplace where I ⁴record My name I will come to you, and I will ⁿbless you. ²⁵And ^oif you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you ^puse your tool on it, you have profaned it. ²⁶Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your ^qnakedness may not be exposed on it.’

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Footnotes

4cause My name to be remembered

Cross references

z Heb. 12:18, 19
a Rev. 1:10, 12
b Ex. 19:16, 18
c Gal. 3:19; Heb. 12:19
d Deut. 5:5, 23–27
e Ex. 14:13; [Is. 41:10, 13]
f Ex. 15:25; [Deut. 13:3]
g Deut. 4:10; 6:24; Prov. 3:7; 16:6; Is. 8:13
h Ex. 19:16; Deut. 5:22
i Deut. 4:36; 5:24, 26; Neh. 9:13
j Ex. 32:1, 2, 4; Deut. 29:17
k Ex. 20:25; 27:1–8
l Ex. 24:5; Lev. 1:2
m Deut. 12:5; 16:6, 11; 1 Kin. 9:3; 2 Chr. 6:6
n Gen. 12:2
o Deut. 27:5
p Josh. 8:30, 31
q Ex. 28:42, 43