Exodus 24
24:1And to Moses he said, Ascend to the lord, you and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel! And they shall do obeisance far off to the lord.
24:2And Moses shall approach alone to God, but they shall not approach, and the people shall not go up with them.
24:3And Moses entered and described to the people all the words of God, and the ordinances. And all the people answered in one voice, saying, All the words which the lord spoke, we will do, and we will hearken.
24:4And Moses wrote down all the words of the lord. And Moses rising early in the morning built an altar by the mountain, and with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5And he sent out the young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered whole burnt-offerings, and they sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance to God -- of young calves.
24:6And Moses taking half of the blood, poured it into a basin; and the other half of the blood he poured upon the altar.
24:7And taking the scroll of the covenant, he read into the ears of the people. And they said, All as much as the lord spoke we shall do, and we shall hearken to.
24:8And Moses taking the blood, he scattered it upon the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant of which the lord ordained for you concerning all these words.
24:9And Moses ascended and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.
24:10And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood. And the things under his feet were as a brick work of sapphire; and as the form of firmament of the heaven in the cleanliness.
24:11And of the chosen ones of Israel, none dissented -- not one. And they appeared in the place of God, and ate and drank.
24:12And the lord said to Moses, Ascend to me unto the mountain, and you be there! And I will give to you the stone writing-tablets of the law, and the commandments which I wrote to establish law to them.
24:13And Moses rising up, and Joshua the one standing beside him, they ascended into the mountain of God.
24:14And they said to the elders, Be still here until we return to you! And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If anyone should come for a judgment, let them go to them!
24:15And Moses ascended into the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
24:16And the glory of God came down upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the lord called Moses on the seventh day from out of the midst of the cloud.
24:17And the sight of the glory of the lord was as fire blazing upon the top of the mountain before the sons of Israel.
24:18And Moses entered in the midst of the cloud, and ascended unto the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.