1And He said to Moses, “Come up to YHWH: you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,* and seventy of Israel’s elders, and bow from a distance.** 2And Moses will come over alone to YHWH, and they shall not come over, and the people shall not come up with him.”
3And Moses came and told the people all of YHWH’s words and all the judgments. And all the people answered, one voice, and they said, “We’ll do all the things that YHWH has spoken.” 4And Moses wrote all of YHWH’s words. And he got up early in the morning and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars for twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they made burnt offerings, and they made peace-offering sacrifices to YHWH: bulls. 6And Moses took half of the blood and set it in basins and threw half of the blood on the altar. 7And he took the scroll of the covenant and read in the people’s ears. And they said, “We’ll do everything that YHWH has spoken, and we’ll listen.”
8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people, and he said, “Here is the blood of the covenant that YHWH has made with you regarding all these things.”
9And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders went up. 10And they saw the God of Israel. And below His feet it was like a structure of sapphire brick and like the essence of the skies for clarity. “And He did not put out His hand to the chiefs of the children of Israel. And they envisioned God. And they ate and drank.
12And YHWH said to Moses, “Come up to me, to the mountain, and be there, and I’ll give you stone tablets and the instruction and the commandment that I’ve written to instruct them.”
13And Moses and Joshua, his attendant, got up, and Moses went up to the Mountain of God. 14And he said to the elders, “Sit for us here until we’ll come back to you. And here, Aaron and Hur are with you. Let whoever has any matters go over to them.” 15And Moses went up to the mountain. And the cloud covered the mountain. l6And YHWH’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And He called to Moses on the seventh day from inside the cloud. 17And the appearance of YHWH’s glory was like a consuming fire in the mountaintop before the eyes of the children of Israel. l8And Moses came inside the cloud and went up into the mountain.* And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.