New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Then he said to Moses, ‘Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,
Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. While you are
still at a distance, you are to bow down;
2 and then Moses shall approach
the Lord by himself, but not the others. The people may not go up
with him at all.’
3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, all his
laws. The whole people answered with one voice and said, ‘We will do
all that the Lord has told us.’
4 Moses wrote down all the words of the
Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the
mountain, and put up twelve sacred pillars, one for each of the twelve
tribes of Israel.
5 He then sent the young men of Israel and they sacrificed
bulls to the Lord as whole-offerings and shared-offerings.
6 Moses took
half the blood and put it in basins and the other half he flung against note
the altar.
7 Then he took the book of the covenant and read it aloud for all
the people to hear. They said, ‘We will obey, and do all that the Lord
has said.’
8 Moses then took the blood and flung it over the people,
saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made
with you on the terms of this book.’
9 Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the
elders of Israel, and they saw note the God of Israel.
10 Under his feet there
was, as it were, a pavement of sapphire, note clear blue as the very heavens;
11 but the Lord did not stretch out his hand towards the leaders of Israel.
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Israel at Mount Sinai
12 They stayed there before God; note they ate and they drank. The Lord
said to Moses, ‘Come up to me on the mountain, stay there and let me
give you the tablets of stone, the law and the commandment, which I
have written down that you may teach them.’
13 Moses arose with
Joshua his assistant and went up the mountain of God;
14 he said to the
elders, ‘Wait for us here until we come back to you. You have Aaron
and Hur; if anyone has a dispute, let him go to them.’
15 So Moses went
up the mountain and a cloud covered it.
16 The glory of the Lord rested
upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered the mountain for six days;
on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud.
17 The glory of the
Lord looked to the Israelites like a devouring fire on the mountain-top.
18 Moses entered the cloud and went up the mountain; there he stayed
forty days and forty nights.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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