Exodus 24:1-6

People Affirm Their Covenant with God

1 Then He said to Moses, "¹Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, ²Nadab and Abihu and ³seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.

2 "Moses alone, however, shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him."

3 Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "⁴All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do!"

4 ⁵Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an ⁶altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve * pillars for the twelve * tribes of Israel.

5 He sent young men of the sons of Israel, ⁷and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

6 ⁸Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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Exodus 24:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 24

In this chapter we have an account that Moses was ordered to come up to the Lord alone, Ex 24:1,2, but that before he did go up, he related to the people all the above laws delivered to him, which they promised obedience to, and so a covenant was made between God and the people by sacrifice, and by the sprinkling of blood, Ex 24:3-8, upon which he and Aaron, and his two sons and seventy elders of Israel, went up part of the mountain, and had a vision of God, Ex 24:9-11, when Moses with Joshua was called, and went up higher, until at length he entered into the cloud where the Lord was, and continued forty days and forty nights, Ex 24:12-18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. Exodus 19:24
2. Exodus 6:23; Exodus 28:1; Leviticus 10:1, 2
3. Numbers 11:16
4. Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:7; Deuteronomy 5:27
5. Exodus 17:14; Exodus 34:27; Deuteronomy 31:9
6. Exodus 17:15
7. Exodus 18:12
8. Hebrews 9:18

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or "judgments"
[b]. Lit "under"