1 Then He said to Moses, “ Go up to the LORD , you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.
2 Moses alone is to approach the LORD , but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”
3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “ We will do everything that the LORD has commanded.”
4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD . He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.
5 Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
6 Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “ We will do and obey everything that the LORD has commanded.”
8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “ This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.”
9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders,
10 and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.
11 God did not harm the Israelite nobles; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
12 The LORD said to Moses, “ Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
13 So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.
