Exodus 24

¹Now He said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord

²And Moses alone shall come near the Lord

³So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord

⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord

⁵Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord

⁶And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

⁷Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord

⁸And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord

⁹Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.

¹¹But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.

¹²Then the Lord

¹³So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

¹⁴And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.”

¹⁵Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.

¹⁶Now the glory of the Lord

¹⁷The sight of the glory of the Lord

¹⁸So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.