OET-RV EXO Chapter 24

24 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Come up the mountain to me—you, Aharon (Aaron), Nadav, Avihu and seventy of the Israeli elders, and you must stay at a distance to worship. 2 Then Mosheh alone must approach me, but the others mustn’t come near, and also the people mustn’t come up with him.”

3 So Mosheh went and explained to the people everything that Yahweh had said, including all the regulations. Then all of the people answered in unison, “We’ll do everything that Yahweh has told us to do.” 4 So Mosheh wrote down everything that Yahweh had instructed. Then he got up early in the morning and built an altar at the bottom of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisrael (Israel), 5 and he sent some young men to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice some bulls as peace offerings to Yahweh. 6 Mosheh took half of the blood from the sacrifices and put it into basins. He sprinkled the other half of the blood onto the altar. 7 Then he took the scroll with the agreement written on it and read it out loud to the people, and they responded, “We’ll obey everything that Yahweh has instructed.”

8 Then Mosheh took the blood in the bowls and sprinkled it onto the people,[ref] telling them, “Look. This is the blood confirming the agreement[ref] that Yahweh has made with you according to what you just heard.”

9 Then Mosheh, Aharon (Aaron), Nadav, Avihu, and seventy Israeli elders climbed up the mountain 10 and they saw the god of Yisrael. Under his feet was something like a tile made of sapphire that looked so pure that it was as clear as the sky. 11 Those Israeli leaders saw God and yet they weren’t harmed by him.. Then they ate and drank together.

12 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, and I will give you some stone slabs with the rules and regulations that I have written on them so you can to teach them to the people.” 13 So Mosheh and his assistant Yehoshua (Joshua) set off, and Mosheh climbed up God’s mountain. 14 He had already told the elders, “Wait for us down here in this place until we return here to you all. And see, Aharon (Aaron) and Hur are with you—any leader judging matters requiring more wisdom can approach them for help.”

15 Then Mosheh went to the base of the mountain and a cloud covered over it. 16 Yahweh’s radiance settled on Mt. Sinay, and the cloud covered it for six days, then on the seventh day he called to Mosheh from within the cloud. 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s radiance was like a roaring fire on the top of the mountain from what the Israelis below could see. 18 Then Mosheh entered into the cloud and continued up the mountain, and he remained up there for forty full days.[ref]