Exodus 24:1-8 ▼

1 But to Moses the LORD said, |Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

2 Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.|

3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, |We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,|

4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones--according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.

6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.

7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, |We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.|

8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, |This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.|