Exodus 24:3-8

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, "1All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do!"
4 2Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an 3altar 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, 4and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
6 5Moses 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 6the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "7All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!"
8 So 8Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold 9the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Exodus 24:3-8 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.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:7; Deuteronomy 5:27
  • 2. Exodus 17:14; Exodus 34:27; Deuteronomy 31:9
  • 3. Exodus 17:15
  • 4. Exodus 18:12
  • 5. Hebrews 9:18
  • 6. Exodus 24:4; Hebrews 9:19
  • 7. Exodus 24:3
  • 8. Hebrews 9:19, 20
  • 9. Zechariah 9:11; Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 13:20

Footnotes 4

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