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The covenant confirmed
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📚And he said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance. 2 📚And Moses alone shall come near the LORD. They shall not come near. And the people shall not come up with him”.
3 📚And Moses came and told the people all the words and all the laws of the LORD, and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “We will do according to every word that the LORD has spoken”.
4 📚And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and erected an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:4 Ex 17:14; 34:27; Num 33:2; Deut 31:9. This is a plain statement that Moses wrote down the law at God’s command. We should not doubt it. Compare John 5:46. Anyone who denies this (and some people do so) is denying a fact of holy Scripture.⚜
5 📚And he sent young men from the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. 6 📚And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 📚And he took the book 📖 of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “We will do everything that the LORD has said, and be obedient 📖”.
8 📚And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “See, the blood 📖 of the covenant which the LORD has made with you about all these words”.
9 📚Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 📚and they saw 📖 the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement 📖 of sapphire, and it was as clear blue as the heavens. 11 📚And he did not lay a hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They also saw God, and ate and drank.
12 📚And the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them”.
13 📚And Moses and his assistant Joshua 📖 got up, and Moses went up on to the mountain of God. 14 📚And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come back to you. For, see, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has matters to resolve, let him come to them”.
15 📚And Moses went up on the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. 16 📚And for six days the glory of the LORD remained on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it. And on the seventh day he called to Moses from inside the cloud. 17 📚And in the eyes of the children of Israel the sight of the glory of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the mountain. 18 📚And Moses went inside the cloud when he went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.