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EXODUS
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Chapter 24
Exod GodsWord 24:1  The LORD said to Moses, "You and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 of Israel's leaders come up the mountain to me and worship at a distance.
Exod GodsWord 24:2  Moses may come near the LORD, but the others may not. The people must not come along with Moses."
Exod GodsWord 24:3  Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice, "We will do everything the LORD has told us to do."
Exod GodsWord 24:4  So Moses wrote down all the LORD's words. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up 12 sacred stones for the 12 tribes of Israel.
Exod GodsWord 24:5  Then he sent young Israelite men, and they sacrificed bulls as burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.
Exod GodsWord 24:6  Moses took half of the blood and put it into bowls, and he threw the other half against the altar.
Exod GodsWord 24:7  Then he took the Book of the LORD's Promise and read it while the people listened. They said, "We will obey and do everything the LORD has said."
Exod GodsWord 24:8  Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, "Here is the blood which seals the promise that the LORD has made to you based on everything you have just heard."
Exod GodsWord 24:9  Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 of Israel's leaders.
Exod GodsWord 24:10  They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made out of sapphire as clear and blue as the sky itself.
Exod GodsWord 24:11  God didn't harm these leaders of the Israelites. So they saw God, and then they ate and drank.
Exod GodsWord 24:12  The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain. Stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the teachings and the commandments I have written for the people's instruction."
Exod GodsWord 24:13  Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
Exod GodsWord 24:14  He said to the leaders, "Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Take all your disagreements to them."
Exod GodsWord 24:15  So Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered it.
Exod GodsWord 24:16  The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from inside the cloud.
Exod GodsWord 24:17  To the Israelites, the glory of the LORD looked like a raging fire on top of the mountain.
Exod GodsWord 24:18  Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain. He stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.