[1] He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. [2] Moses
alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither
shall the people go up with him." [3] Moses came and told the people all
the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered
with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we
do." [4] Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the
morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the
twelve tribes of Israel. [5] He sent young men of the children of Israel,
who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to
Yahweh. [6] Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of
the blood he sprinkled on the altar. [7] He took the book of the covenant
and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh
has spoken will we do, and be obedient." [8] Moses took the blood, and
sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the
covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words." [9]
Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went
up. [10] They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work
of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. [11] He didn`t lay his
hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and
drank. [12] Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay
here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands
that I have written, that you may teach them." [13] Moses rose up with
Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God`s Mountain. [14] He said to
the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron
and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
[15] Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
[16] The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it
six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
[17] The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the
top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. [18] Moses
entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses
was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.