Exodus 24:2-12

2 You alone, and none of the others, are to come near me. The people are not even to come up the mountain."
3 Moses went and told the people all the Lord's commands and all the ordinances, and all the people answered together, "We will do everything that the Lord has said."
4 Moses wrote down all the Lord's commands. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 Then he sent young men, and they burned sacrifices to the Lord and sacrificed some cattle as fellowship offerings.
6 Moses took half of the blood of the animals and put it in bowls; and the other half he threw against the altar.
7 Then he took the book of the covenant, in which the Lord's commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded."
8 Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that seals the covenant which the Lord made with you when he gave all these commands." 1
9 Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the leaders of Israel went up the mountain
10 and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was what looked like a pavement of sapphire, as blue as the sky.
11 God did not harm these leading men of Israel; they saw God, and then they ate and drank together.
12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up the mountain to me, and while you are here, I will give you two stone tablets which contain all the laws that I have written for the instruction of the people."

Cross References 1

  • 1. 24.8 aMatthew 26.28;Mark 14.24;Luke 22.20;1 Corinthians 11.25;Hebrews 10.29; bHebrews 9.19, 20.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.