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And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
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And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.
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So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.
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And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
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Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.
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And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.
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And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
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Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:
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And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.