Exodus 24

CLV(i) 1 Then to Moses He said: Ascend to Yahweh, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow yourselves down from afar. 2 Yet Moses will come close to Yahweh, to Him alone; but they shall not come close, and the people shall not ascent with him. 3 So Moses came and related to the people all the words of Yahweh and all the judgments. Then all the people responded with one voice and said: All the words which Yahweh has spoken we shall do. 4 Now Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh. And he rose early in the morning and built an altar below the mountain and twelve stone monuments for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 Then he sent youths of the sons of Israel, and the brought up ascent offerings and sacrificed young bulls as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in goblets, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the scroll of the covenant and read it in the ears of the people; so they said: All that Yahweh has spoken we shall do and hearken to. 8 Now Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said: Behold the blood of the covenant which Yahweh contracts with you concerning all these matters. 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ascended. 10 And they saw the Elohim of Israel and beneath His feet as it were a work of sapphire tiling, as the very heavens for purity. 11 To the selectmen of the sons of Israel He put not forth His hand, yet they perceived the One, Elohim, and ate and drank. 12 Yahweh said to Moses: Ascend to Me to the mountain and be there, and I shall give to you the stone tablets, the law and the instructions which I wrote to direct them. " 13 So Moses and Joshua, his minister, rose, and Moses ascended to the mountain of the One, Elohim. 14 And to the elders he said: Wait for us in this place until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Anyone who has matters, let him come to them. 15 When Moses ascended to the mountain, the cloud covered the mountain, 16 and the glory of Yahweh tabernacled over Mount Sinai. The cloud covered it six days. Then Yahweh called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was as a devouring fire on the summit of the mountain, to the eyes of the sons of Israel. 18 So Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and ascended into the mountain. Moses came to be on the mountain forty days and forty nights.