Exodus 24:5-15

5 He sent young men of the sons of Israel, ¹and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

6 ²Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 Then he took ³the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "⁴All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!"

8 So ⁵Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold ⁶the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, ⁷Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

10 and ⁸they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet ⁹there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

11 Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and ¹⁰they saw God, and they ate and drank.

12 Now the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and ¹¹I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction."

13 So Moses arose with ¹²Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to ¹³the mountain of God.

14 But to the elders he said, "¹⁴Wait here for us until * we return to you. And behold, ¹⁵Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them."

15 Then Moses went up to the mountain, and ¹⁶the cloud covered the mountain.

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Exodus 24:5-15 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 16

1. Exodus 18:12
2. Hebrews 9:18
3. Exodus 24:4; Hebrews 9:19
4. Exodus 24:3
5. Hebrews 9:19, 20
6. Zechariah 9:11; Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 13:20
7. Exodus 24:1
8. Exodus 24:11; Numbers 12:8; Isaiah 6:5; John 1:18; John 6:46
9. Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1; Revelation 4:3
10. Genesis 16:13; Genesis 32:30; Exodus 24:10
11. Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15; Deuteronomy 5:22
12. Exodus 17:9-14; Exodus 33:11
13. Exodus 3:1
14. Genesis 22:5
15. Exodus 17:10, 12
16. Exodus 19:9

Footnotes 10

[a]. Lit "cut"
[b]. Lit "on all"
[c]. Lit "and"
[d]. Lit "like a pavement"
[e]. Lit "and as"
[f]. Lit "be"
[g]. Lit "and"
[h]. Lit "and"
[i]. Or "minister"
[j]. Lit "is a master of matters"

Exodus 24:5-15

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Exodus 24:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 24

Cross References 16

Footnotes 10