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The LORDsaid to Moses, "Behold, I will come to you in a thickcloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may alsobelieve in you forever." Then Mosestold the words of the people to the LORD.
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"You shall setbounds for the peopleallaround, saying, 'Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoevertouches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
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'Nohand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stonedorshotthrough; whetherbeastorman, he shall not live.' When the ram'shornsounds a longblast, they shall come up to the mountain."
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So it came about on the thirdday, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightningflashes and a thickcloud upon the mountain and a veryloudtrumpetsound, so that all the peoplewho were in the camptrembled.
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Now MountSinai was all in smokebecause** the LORDdescended upon it in fire; and its smokeascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the wholemountainquakedviolently.
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Then the LORDsaid to him, "Go*down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the peoplebreakthrough to come up to the LORD, or He will breakforth upon them."