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Exodus

1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi­hu, and sev­en­ty of the el­ders of Is­rael; and wor­ship ye afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; nei­ther shall the peo­ple go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the peo­ple all the words of the LORD, and all the judg­ments: and all the peo­ple an­swered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up ear­ly in the morn­ing, and build­ed an al­tar un­der the hill, and twelve pil­lars, ac­cord­ing to the twelve tribes of Is­rael. 5 And he sent young men of the chil­dren of Is­rael, which of­fered burnt of­fer­ings, and sac­ri­ficed peace of­fer­ings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in ba­sons; and half of the blood he sprin­kled on the al­tar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the au­di­ence of the peo­ple: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obe­di­ent. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprin­kled it on the peo­ple, and said, Be­hold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you con­cern­ing all these words. 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi­hu, and sev­en­ty of the el­ders of Is­rael: 10 And they saw the God of Is­rael: and there was un­der his feet as it were a paved work of a sap­phire stone, and as it were the body of heav­en in his clear­ness. 11 And upon the no­bles of the chil­dren of Is­rael he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee ta­bles of stone, and a law, and com­mand­ments which I have writ­ten; that thou mayest teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and his min­is­ter Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14 And he said unto the el­ders, Tar­ry ye here for us, un­til we come again unto you: and, be­hold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any mat­ters to do, let him come unto them. 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud cov­ered the mount. 16 And the glo­ry of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud cov­ered it six days: and the sev­enth day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glo­ry of the LORD was like de­vour­ing fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the chil­dren of Is­rael. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.