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And thou shalt set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up upon the mount, or touch the border of it: whoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
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There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through: whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
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And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
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And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives.
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And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [were] in the camp trembled.
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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 mount Sinai was altogether in a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly.
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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
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And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
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And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
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And let the priests also who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.