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All the people answered together, and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." Moshe reported the words of the people to the LORD.
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The LORD said to Moshe, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moshe told the words of the people to the LORD.
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The LORD said to Moshe, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
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and be ready against the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
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You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
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No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the shofar sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
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Moshe went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
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It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud shofar; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
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Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
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Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because the LORD descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.