Exodus 24:4-7

4 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.

7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.”

Exodus 24:4-7 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

• 1. S Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:9
• 2. S Genesis 8:20
• 3. S Genesis 28:18; S Deuteronomy 27:2
• 4. Leviticus 1:3
• 5. S Genesis 31:54
• 6. Exodus 14:15; Exodus 32:31; Psalms 99:6
• 7. Hebrews 9:18
• 8. Leviticus 1:11; Leviticus 3:2,8,13; Leviticus 5:9; Matthew 26:28
• 9. 2 Kings 23:2,21; Hebrews 9:19
• 10. Exodus 19:8; Jeremiah 40:3; Jeremiah 42:6,21; Jeremiah 43:2