Exodus 24 · Parashat Mishpatim

And he said to Moshe, Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra᾽el; and bow down afar off.

And Moshe alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him.

And Moshe came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord has said will we do.

And Moshe wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Yisra᾽el.

And he sent the young men of the children of Yisra᾽el, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.

And Moshe took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people: and they said, All that the Lord has said will we do, and obey.

And Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.

Then Moshe went up, and Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra᾽el:

and they saw the God of Yisra᾽el: and there was under his feet a kind of paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.

And upon the nobles of the children of Yisra᾽el he laid not his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.

And the Lord said to Moshe, Come up to me to the mountain, and be there: and I will give thee the tablets of stone, and the Tora, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayst teach them.

And Moshe rose up, and his minister Yehoshua: and Moshe went up into the mount of God.

And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we come back to you: and, behold, Aharon and Ḥur are with you: if any man have any matters, let him come to them.

And Moshe went up into the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

And the glory of the Lord rested upon mount Sinay, and the cloud covered it for six days: on the seventh day he called to Moshe out of the midst of the cloud.

And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Yisra᾽el.

And Moshe went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain: and Moshe was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.