1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.[ † ]Exodus 6:23Exodus 28:1Leviticus 10:1-2Exodus 1:5Numbers 11:16 2Moses alone shall approach the Lord, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”
3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the Lord, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the Lord has spoken, we will do.”[ † ]Exodus 19:8Exodus 24:7Deuteronomy 5:27Galatians 3:19
4And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.[ † ]Exodus 17:14Exodus 34:27Deuteronomy 31:9Genesis 28:18 5Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.[ † ]Exodus 18:12Exodus 20:24
6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.[ † ]Exodus 29:16-20Hebrews 9:18 7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”[ † ]Exodus 24:4Hebrews 9:19
8So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”[ † ]Zechariah 9:11Matthew 26:28Mark 14:24Luke 22:201 Corinthians 11:25Hebrews 9:19-20Hebrews 13:201 Peter 1:2
9Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.[ † ]Exodus 24:11Numbers 12:8Isaiah 6:5John 1:18John 6:461 John 4:12Ezekiel 1:26Revelation 4:3Matthew 17:2 11But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.[ † ]Exodus 19:21Genesis 32:30Judges 13:221 Corinthians 10:18
12Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”[ † ]Exodus 24:2-15Exodus 31:18Exodus 32:15Deuteronomy 5:22
13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.[ † ]Exodus 32:17 14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”[ † ]Exodus 17:10-12
15When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,[ † ]Exodus 19:9Matthew 17:5 16and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.[ † ]Exodus 16:10Exodus 33:18Numbers 14:10 17And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.[ † ]Exodus 3:2Deuteronomy 4:26-36Deuteronomy 9:3Hebrews 12:18-29
18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.[ † ]Exodus 34:28Deuteronomy 9:9Deuteronomy 10:10