Israel at Mount Sinai
1IN the third month after Israel had left Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
2They set out from Rephidim and, entering the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped there, pitching their tents in front of the mountain.
3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:
4You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I have carried you on eagles” wings and brought you here to me.
5If only you will now listen to me and keep my covenant, then out of all peoples you will become my special possession; for the whole earth is mine.
6You will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation. Those are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.'
7Moses went down, and summoning the elders of the people he set before them all these commands which the LORD had laid on him.
8As one the people answered, “Whatever the LORD has said we shall do.” When Moses brought this answer back to the LORD,
9the LORD said to him, “I am coming to you in a thick cloud, so that I may speak to you in the hearing of the people, and so their faith in you may never fail.” When Moses reported to the LORD the pledge given by the people,
10the LORD said to him, “Go to the people and hallow them today and tomorrow and have them wash their clothes.
11They must be ready by the third day, because on that day the LORD will descend on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
12You must set bounds for the people, saying, ‘Take care not to go up the mountain or even to touch its base.’ Anyone who touches the mountain shall be put to death.
13No hand may touch him; he is to be stoned to death or shot: neither man nor beast may live. But when the ram's horn sounds, they may go up the mountain.”
14Moses came down from the mountain to the people. He hallowed them and they washed their clothes.
15He said, “Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman.”
16At dawn on the third day there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet-blast; all the people in the camp trembled.
17Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
18Mount Sinai was enveloped in smoke because the LORD had come down on it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke from a kiln; all the people trembled violently,
19and the sound of the trumpet grew ever louder. Whenever Moses spoke, God answered him in a peal of thunder.
20The LORD came down on the top of Mount Sinai and summoned Moses up to the mountaintop.
21The LORD said to him, “Go down; warn the people solemnly that they must not force their way through to the LORD to see him, or many of them will perish.
22Even the priests, who may approach the LORD, must hallow themselves, for fear that the LORD may break out against them.”
23Moses answered the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us to set bounds to the mountain and keep it holy.”
24The LORD said, “Go down; then come back, bringing Aaron with you, but let neither priests nor people force their way up to the LORD, for fear that he may break out against them.”
25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
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