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And the LORDsaid unto Moses,Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
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And be ready against the thirdday: for the thirdday the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mountSinai.
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And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
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There shall not an handtouch it, but he shall surely be stoned, orshotthrough; whether it be beastorman, it shall not live: when the trumpet[a] soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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And he said unto the people,Beready against the thirdday:come not at your wives.
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And it came to pass on the thirdday in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thickcloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpetexceedingloud; so that all the people that was in the camptrembled.
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And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
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And mountSinai was altogether on a smoke, becausetheLORDdescended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountquakedgreatly.
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And when the voice of the trumpetsoundedlong, and waxed louder and louder,Mosesspake, and Godanswered him by a voice.
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And the LORD came down upon mountSinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORDcalledMoses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
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And the LORDsaid unto Moses, Go down, charge[b] the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
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And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
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And Mosessaid unto the LORD, The peoplecannot come up to mountSinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.