EXODUS 24

Exodus 24New International Version covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy 24 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to elders of Israel went the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and up10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship was something like a pavement made of lapis at a distance, 2 but lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. 11 But God did Moses alone is to not raise his hand against these leaders of the approach the Lord; Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank. the others must not 12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on come near. And the the mountain and stay here, and I will give you people may not the tablets of stone with the come up with him.” law and commandments I 3 When Moses went and told the people all have written for their the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with instruction.” one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will 13 Then Moses set out with do.” 4 Moses then wrote down everything Joshua his aide, and Moses the Lord had said. went up on the mountain of God. 14 He said to He got up early the next the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back morning and built an to you. Aaron and altar at the foot of the Hur are with you, and mountain and set up anyone involved in a twelve stone dispute can go to them.” pillars representing the 15 When Moses went up twelve tribes of Israel. 5 Then he sent young on the mountain, the Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship cloud covered it, 16 and the gloryof offerings to the Lord. 6 Moses took half of the the Lord settled on bloodand put it in bowls, and the other half he Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the splashed against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 To the They responded, “We will do everything Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a the Lord has said; consuming fire on top of we will obey.” the mountain. 18 Then 8 Moses then took Moses entered the cloud the blood, as he went on up the sprinkled it on the mountain. And he stayed people and said, on the mountain “This is the blood forty days and forty of the nights. The Covenant Confirmed 9 Moses