Exodus:24

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* And he (note :)When he called him up to the mountain to give him the laws , beginning at the 20th chapter till now .(:note ) said unto Moses , Come up unto the LORD , thou , and Aaron , Nadab , and Abihu , and seventy of the elders of Israel ; and worship ye afar off . * And Moses himselfe alone shal come nere to the Lord , but they shall not come neere , neither shall the people goe vp with him . * * And Moses wrote all the wordes of the Lord , and rose vp early , and set vp an altar vnder the mountaine , and twelue pillars according to the twelue tribes of Israel . * And he sent young (note :)For as yet the priesthood was not given to Levi .(:note ) men of the children of Israel , which offered burnt offerings , and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD . * Then Moses tooke halfe of the blood , and put it in basens , and halfe of the blood he sprinckled on the altar . * After he tooke the booke of the couenant , and read it in the audience of the people : who said , All that the Lord hath said , we will do , and be obedient . * And Moses took the blood , and sprinkled [it ] on the people , and said , Behold the (note :)Which signifies that the covenant broken cannot be satisfied without shedding of blood .(:note ) blood of the covenant , which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words . * Then went vp Moses &amp ; Aaron , Nadab , &amp ; Abihu , and seuentie of the Elders of Israel . * And they (note :)As perfectly as their infirmities could behold his majesty .(:note ) saw the God of Israel : and [there was ] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone , and as it were the body of heaven in [his ] clearness . * And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he (note :)He did not make them afraid , nor punish them .(:note ) laid not his hand : also they saw God , and That is , rejoiced . did eat and drink . * And the LORD (note :)The second time .(:note ) said unto Moses , Come up to me into the mount , and be there : and I will give thee Signifying the hardness of our hearts , unless God writes his laws in it by his Spirit , ( Jer_31:33 ; Eze_11:19 ; 2Co_3:3 ; Heb_8:10 , Heb_10:16 ) tables of stone , and a law , and commandments which I have written ; that thou mayest teach That is , the people . them . * Then Moses rose vp , and his minister Ioshua , and Moses went vp into the mountaine of God , * And said vnto the Elders , Tary vs here , vntill we come againe vnto you : and beholde , Aaron , and Hur are with you : whosoeuer hath any matters , let him come to them . * Then Moses went vp to the mount , and the cloude couered the mountaine , * And the glorie of the Lorde abode vpon mount Sinai , and the cloude couered it sixe dayes : and the seuenth day he called vnto Moses out of the middes of the cloude . * And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was ] like (note :)The Lord appears like devouring fire to carnal men : but to them that he draws with his Spirit , he is like pleasant sapphire .(:note ) devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel . * And Moses entred into the middes of the cloude , and went vp to the mountaine : and Moses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourty nightes .

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