1And he said to Moses, Come up to Yehovah, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship at a distance: 2and Moses alone shall come near to Yehovah; but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him. 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Yehovah has spoken we will do. 4And Moses wrote all the words of Yehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yehovah. 6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people: and they said, All that Yehovah has spoken we will do, and be obedient. 8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yehovah has made with you concerning all these words. 9Then Moses went up, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness. 11And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he did not lay his hand: and they beheld God, and ate and drank. 12And Yehovah said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them. 13And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we come again to you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: whoever has a cause, let him come near to them. 15And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. 16And the glory of Yehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17And the appearance of the glory of Yehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.