Shmot (Exodus) - Chapter 24

24:1 He said to Mosha, "Come up to Mar-Yah, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael; and worship from a distance. 24:2 Mosha alone shall come near to Mar-Yah, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

24:3 Mosha came and told the people all the words of Mar-Yah, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Mar-Yah has spoken will we do."

24:4 Mosha wrote all the words of Mar-Yah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisrael. 24:5 He sent young men of the B'nai Yisrael, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Mar-Yah. 24:6 Mosha took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Mar-Yah has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

24:8 Mosha took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Mar-Yah has made with you concerning all these words."

24:9 Then Mosha, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael went up. 24:10 They saw God of Yisrael. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness. 24:11 He did not lay his hand on the nobles of the B'nai Yisrael. They saw God, and ate and drank.

24:12 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

24:13 Mosha rose up with Yoshua, his servant, and Mosha went up onto God's Mountain. 24:14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

24:15 Mosha went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 24:16 The glory of Mar-Yah settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Mosha out of the midst of the cloud. 24:17 The appearance of the glory of Mar-Yah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the B'nai Yisrael. 24:18 Mosha entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Mosha was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.