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To Moshe [ADONAI] said, "Come up to ADONAI -you, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy of the leaders of Isra'el. Prostrate yourselves at a distance,
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while Moshe alone approaches ADONAI -the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him."
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Moshe came and told the people everything ADONAI had said, including all the rulings. The people answered with one voice: "We will obey every word ADONAI has spoken."
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Moshe wrote down all the words of ADONAI. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the base of the mountain and set upright twelve large stones to represent the twelve tribes of Isra'el.
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He sent the young men of the people of Isra'el to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to ADONAI.
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Moshe took half of the blood and put it in basins; the other half of the blood he splashed against the altar.
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Then he took the book of the covenant and read it aloud, so that the people could hear; and they responded, "Everything that ADONAI has spoken, we will do and obey."
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Moshe took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which ADONAI has made with you in accordance with all these words."
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Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu and seventy of the leaders went up;
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and they saw the God of Isra'el. Under his feet was something like a sapphire stone pavement as clear as the sky itself.