Mount Sinai.

1   In the third moneth of the depature of Israel out of the Land of Ægypt,09Q0130 this day they came into ^note the wildernesse of Sinai,

2   For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tentes ouer against the mountaine.

3   And Moyses went vp to God: and our Lord called him from the mountaine, and said: ^note This shalt thou say to the house of Iacob, and shalt tel the children of Israel:

4   Your selues haue sene what I haue done to the Ægyptians, how I haue carried you vpon the winges of eagles, and haue taken you vnto me.

5   If therfore you wil heare my voice, and keepe my couenant, you shal be ^note my peculiar of al peoples: for al the earth is myne.

6   And you shal be vnto me ^note a priestlie kingdome, and ^note a holie nation: these are the wordes that thou shalt speake to the children of Israel.

7   Moyses came: and calling together the nations of the people, he declared al the wordes which our Lord had commanded him.

8   And al the people answered together ^note Al thinges that our Lord hath spoken, we wil doe. And when Moyses had reported the peoples wordes to our Lord,

9   our Lord said to him: Now presently wil I come to thee in the darkenesse of a cloude, that the people may heare me speaking to thee, and may beleue thee for euer. Moyses therfore ^note told the peoples wordes to our Lord.

10   Who said to him: Goe to the people, and sanctifie them to day, and to morow, and let them wash their garmentes.

11   And let them be readie against the third day: for in the third day the Lord wil descend in the sight of al the people vpon the mount Sinai.

12   And thou shalt appoynt certaine limites to the people in circuite, and shalt say to them: Beware ye ascend not into the mount, and that you touch not the endes therof: euerie one that toucheth the mount, dying shal dye.

13   Handes shal not touch him, but he shal be stoned to death, or shal be shot through with arrowes: whether it be beast, or man, it shal not liue. When the trumpet shal beginne to sound, then let them ascend into the mount.

14   And Moyses came downe from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

15   he said to them: Be readie against the third day, and come not neere your wiues.

16   And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders deganne to be heard,

Mount Sinai. and lightenings to flash, and a verie thicke cloude to couer the mount, and the noyse of the trumpet sounded exceedingly: and the people, that was in the campe, feared.

17   And when Moyses had brought them forth to mete with God from the place of the campe, they stoode at the botome of the mount.

18   And al the mount Sinai smoked: for because our Lord was descended vpon it in fyre, and the smoke arose from it as out of a fornace: and al the mount was terrible.

19   And the sound of the trumpet grew lowder by litle and litle, and was drawen out a length: Moyses spake, and God answered him.

20   And our Lord descended vpon the mount Sinai in the very toppe of the mount, and he called Moyses into the toppe therof. Whither when he was ascended,

21   he said vnto him: Goe downe, and charge the people: lest perhaps they wil passe their limittes to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them perish.

22   The priestes also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.

23   And Moyses said to our Lord: The comon people can not ascend into the mount Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Put limittes about the mount, and sanctifie it.

24   To whom our Lord said: Goe, gette thee downe and thou shalt come vp, & Aaron with thee: but ^note the priests and the people let them not passe the limittes, nor ascend to the Lord, lest perhappes he kil them.

25   And Moyses went downe to the people, and told them al.

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